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General Howitzer’s Field Guide to Memoir 44

A Memoir 44 Strategy & Tactics Community

Medeera Pocket

by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1945, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Pacific, Mobile Artillery, Scenario, Tactical, Theater: Pacific

Medeera Pocket IMG_0782 IMG_0784 IMG_0785 IMG_0786 The Battle of the Medeera Pocket in June 1945 was a late-stage engagement during the Marianas and Palau Islands campaign of World War II. Located on northern Peleliu, the Medeera Pocket was one of the last strongholds...

[Ukraine] Soviet raid on Grigorevka

by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1941, Artillery, Beach, Breakthrough Game, Combat Cards, Countryside, Destroyer, Infantry, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Eastern

Soviet Raid on Grigorevka September 1941—Odessa’s under siege, and the Soviets are getting hammered by Romanian artillery. So what do they do? They go on the offensive—hard. Captain Koren takes the lead at sea with the 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment, nearly 2,000...

Operation Market Garden (Overlord)

by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Netherlands, Overlord, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western

Operation Market Garden (Overlord Map) Op-Market-Garden_title Op-Market-Garden_Right2 Op-Market-Garden_Right1 Op-Market-Garden_Left2 Op-Market-Garden_Left1 Op-Market-Garden_center2 Op-Market-Garden_center1 Operation Market Garden, fought in September 1944, was a major...

Saint-Martin and Bull Bridge

by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 28, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Special Weapons, Tactical

Saint-Martin and Bull Bridge After the Allied breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra, late July 1944), U.S. forces rapidly advanced across northern France. As they pursued retreating German forces, small but fierce battles flared up at key defensive points. Battle...

Counter-Attack with Assault – or Not?

by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 5, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Smackdown, Special Weapons, Strategic

STRATEGY SMACKDOWN: Take a look at this situation in the Drive on Caen scenario. Historically, in 1944, the Allies, through Operation Charnwood, were attempting to take the city of Caen. In this battle, the Allies have just barraged and taken out the Axis armor in the...

Mount Pincon

by GeneralHowitzer | Mar 28, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic

Mount Pinçon “Listen up! In July ‘44, our British allies climbed that Mount Pinçon, the highest ground in Normandy, and they weren’t going to let anything stop them. That hill was a fortress—machine guns, mortars, and some of the toughest terrain you could imagine....
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