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What can I say? There’s a lotta tanks in this battle!
~~ General Howitzer
VP’s
12
Card Balance:
Allies – 7
Axis – 8
Complexity:
3
Conditions:
Countryside
Context:
Fictional
Location:
Somewhere
Year:
Sometime
Summary:
Victory Points:
12 Medals
Terrain:
Open terrain with a few hills and towns
Troops:
Allies – 7
Axis – 8
Allies:
1.
Axis:
1.
Author.
URL
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In the dead of night before D-Day, the All Americans of the 82nd Airborne didn’t tiptoe into Normandy—they dropped in like thunder. C-47s hauled them over the Channel, and under flak, wind, and pure hell, they jumped straight into the enemy’s lap. The plan was simple: grab the crossroads, smash German lines of communication, and choke off any counterattack toward Utah Beach.
They got scattered to hell and gone, fighting in small bands with nothing but guts and rifles. But by God, they took Sainte-Mère-Église—the first French town freed—and held the line until the rest of the army came ashore. It was messy, it was costly, but it damned well crippled the Germans and locked down the flank for the greatest invasion in history.
~~ General Howitzer
VP’s
8
Card Balance:
Allies – 5
Axis – 5
Complexity:
4
Conditions:
Countryside
Context:
Historical
Location:
Normandy
Year:
1944
Summary:
Victory Points:
8 Medals, including some objectives for capturing towns, bridges, and permanent medals for blowing up bridges.
Terrain:
there is a lot of terrain here with the battlefield being a breakthrough that is 17 rows deep, composed of countryside, rivers and marshes.
Troops:
Allies – 10 elite Infantry units
Axis – 10 Infantry, 1 Armor
Special Rules:
1. Allies do three Paradrops around the stars on the map.
2. Nightime Rules: Then once daylight appears, you may be given a chance to do a fourth paradrop, using lost figures, up to three total over the town of Les Forges.
3. Blowing up Bridges – once Allied forces are adjacent to a bridge, they may have an opportunity to blow it up, for a Permanent Victory Medal.
Allies:
1. Big Picture Strategy: This scenario is about consolidating and coordinating your forces. Because of the paradrops, they end up scattered across the battlefield in a semi-random formation. You need to pull them together and then make a plan to target sets of the enemy forces, sector by sector: isolated, attack, destroy, move to the next sector.
2. Note that you have three Temporary Medal Objectives, made up of two bridges and one town. You also have two Permanent Medal Objectives if you can blow up the designated bridges of Pont-l’Abbe, and Beuzeville.
3. Concerning the paradrops at the start of the game. The rules instruct you to center each drop around one of the three stars on the battlefield. While you may be required to do this when playing IRL with friends, the BGA site will allow you to drop them anywhere you like, subject to the same random losses and displacement issues.
Some commanders have been quite successful in dropping all of their paratroops in the same sector, and then wiping out the enemy before moving on to the next sector.
4. A second paradrop occurs at dawn. Once you hit daylight, more reinforcements will be coming your way. So hang in there!
Axis:
1. Be aware the the two bridges across La Douve River are each permanent medal objectives for the Allies. If they succeed in destroying your bridges, they will gain one Medal for each one, plus any forces you have locked behind the river will be stranded as the river is impassable.
2. The other two bridges with the marked Allied Medals are temporary objectives, in which the Allies must remain on the hex to keep the medal.
3. Because this is an 8 medal battle, you will need to eliminate almost all of the Allied units to win.
4. Get your kills in before daylight. Once that happens, the enemy will do another paradrop of reinforcements.
Author: Ddrommel
URL
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The Battle of Dubno–Brody (June 23–30, 1941) was one of the largest tank battles of World War II, fought during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa between Germany’s Army Group South and the Soviet Southwestern Front.
Results:
German Panzer forces decisively defeated the numerically superior Soviet armored units, destroying or capturing thousands of tanks.
Soviet forces suffered catastrophic losses and were forced into retreat.
Strategy:
The Germans used fast, coordinated Panzer thrusts and encirclement tactics to neutralize Soviet armor.
Soviet forces, hampered by poor coordination, mechanical breakdowns, and weak communications, failed to execute an effective counteroffensive.
General Howitzer summarizes its impact:
That win at Dubno–Brody blew the road wide open for the Germans into Ukraine and straight toward Kiev. It showed the Soviets their armor doctrine was a mess, and they paid for it in steel and blood. But they’re stubborn—those losses lit a fire under them, and the lessons they learned there would come back to bite the Germans hard later in the war.
24 VP’s (!)
[ This is a ‘break-lord’ scenario ]
Card Balance:
Allies –
Axis –
Complexity:
5
Conditions:
Countryside
Context:
Historical
Location:
Russia
Year:
1941
Theater:
Eastern Front
Campaign:
Codename:
Operation Barbarossa
Summary:
Objectives:
24 VP’s, plus many other conditions. Read the PDF special rules.
Terrain:
Countryside with rivers and roads
Troops: (check the PDF for specific the specific troop deployments)
Allied Strategy:
1.
Axis Strategy
1.
Author:
Willem Boersma
Complete Scenario Link:
https://generalhowitzer.com/bsk-pdf-manager/battle-of-dubno-brody/
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Wittmann’s last ride came on August 8, ’44, when the Canadians kicked off Operation Totalize south of Caen. He rolled out in his Tiger, thinking he’d stop the Allied push cold—but this wasn’t the Eastern Front, and the Allies weren’t amateurs anymore.
Somewhere near Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil, his luck ran out. A Sherman Firefly—packing that damn fine 17-pounder—put a round through his armor and ended the fight before it started. Wittmann and his crew never saw it coming.
That day didn’t just take out Germany’s star tank ace—it proved the tide had turned, and our boys could kill Tigers just as fast as they came at us.
~~ General Howitzer
6 VP’s
Card Balance:
Allies – 5
Axis – 5
Complexity:
3
Conditions:
Countryside
Context:
Historical
Location:
France
Year:
1944
Theater:
Western
Campaign:
Battle of Normandy
Codename:
Operation Totalizer
Summary:
Objectives:
6 VP’s
Battlefield:
Countryside
Troops:
Allies – 9 Infantry, 4 Armor
Axis – 8 Infantry, 2 Armor, 1 Artillery
Allied Strategy:
1. Big Picture Strategy: You need to move fast during the cover of night. Every turn there is a possibility of getting a star which will increase daylight and extend the range of the enemy artillery.
2. You have four special forces units which can very quickly move in range to attack.
3. There are two objective medals in the right flank. You can keep pushing your forces in that direction as you have opportunity.
Axis Strategy
1. Big picture strategy; you will do well to delay and allow the presence of daylight to assist your defensive forces with your artillery. Do not rush out to attack. Allow several turns to take place so that you get more daylight and thus more range for your artillery.
2. Wittmann’s battalion is the four-tank unit with the special medal. It can ignore the first retreat flag, which can assist you in close quarters battles with enemy armor.
3. You have two Anti-Tank units which – if it doesn’t move – can hit Armor when it rolls a Star. Keep them ready, if the enemy tries to get near your Medal Objectives.
Battle Reports
Author:
Days of Wonder
Resource:
BGA
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Parry Island was a textbook assault—our 4th Marines hit the beach with tanks rolling, guns blazing, and the Navy pounding from offshore. The enemy was dug in and ready to die, and they did—every last one of them. In just over a day, we turned their fortress into a smoking ruin. That win locked down Kwajalein and put us one step closer to Japan’s front porch. Fast, brutal, and effective—just the way war ought to be fought.
~~ General Howitzer
6 VP’s
Card Balance:
Allies – 6
Axis – 4
Complexity:
3
Conditions:
Beach & Jungle
Context:
Location:
Marshall Islands
Year:
1944
Theater:
Western
Campaign:
Marshall Islands
Codename:
Operation Flintlock
Summary:
Objectives:
6 VP’s
Battlefield:
Beach.
Troops:
Allies – 9 Infantry, 6 Armor, 1 Artillery
Axis – 9 Infantry, 2 Armor, 1 Artillery
Allied Strategy:
1.
Axis Strategy
1.
Battle Reports
Author:
Days of Wonder
Resource:
Campaign Book, Volume 2
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The Defense of Wanssum Woods in 1945 was part of Operation Snowman, a late World War II engagement in the Netherlands. German forces mounted a stubborn defense in the wooded area near Wanssum to delay the Allied advance.
General Howitzer has some thoughts on this battle:
Wanssum Woods was a thick, muddy brawl—Germans dug in deep, using every tree and shadow to stall us. The Brits and Canucks had to fight for every damn yard, ambush after ambush. But they didn’t quit. They rooted the enemy out, inch by inch, and kept the advance rolling into northern Germany. Forest or no forest, when you’re relentless, no defense holds.
6 VP’s
Card Balance:
Allies (Great Britain) – 6
Axis – 5
Complexity:
3
Conditions:
Winter Forest
Context:
Location:
Netherlands
Year:
1945
Theater:
Western
Campaign:
Codename:
Summary:
Objectives:
6 VP’s
Battlefield:
Combination of woods and winter.
Troops:
Allies – 13 Infantry
Axis – 9 Infantry
Allied Strategy:
1.
Axis Strategy
1.
Battle Reports
Author:
Days of Wonder
Resource:
Campaign Book, Volume 2
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