by GeneralHowitzer | May 4, 2025 | 1939, Armor, Artillery, Big Guns, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Russia, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Special Weapons, Strategic, Theater: Eastern
Bain Tsagan Heights “Listen up, boys! In early July ‘39, over in the dusty wilderness of Mongolia, the Japanese thought they’d pull a fast one at the Bain Tsagan Heights—cross the river, flank the Soviets, and wrap the whole show up in a bow. But Zhukov wasn’t about...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1942, Armor, Artillery, Desert, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Overlord Game, Scenario, Special Weapons, Strategic, Theater: Mediterranean
The Capture of Tobruk (Overlord Map) Capture-Tobruk_title Capture-Tobruk_Right2 Capture-Tobruk_Right1 Capture-Tobruk_Left2 Capture-Tobruk_Left1 Capture-Tobruk_center2 Capture-Tobruk_center1 June 21, 1942—Tobruk falls, and Rommel gets his moment in the sun. The Desert...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1942, Armor, Artillery, Infantry, Location: Russia, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Eastern, Urban
Rats in a Factory [ Overlord ] Rats-Factory_title Rats-Factory_right2 Rats-Factory_right1 Rats-Factory_Left2 Rats-Factory_Left1 Rats-Factory_center2 Rats-Factory_center1 “Rats in a Factory”—Stalingrad, late ’42. You want to know what hell looks like? This...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Closing the Gap The Battle of Closing the Gap near Falaise from August 19–22, 1944, marked the final phase of the Falaise Pocket, where British, Canadian, Polish, and American forces worked to encircle and destroy retreating German units in Normandy. Fighting was...
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...
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...
