by GeneralHowitzer | Jun 28, 2025 | Armor, Artillery, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Battle of Abbeville The Battle of Abbeville was a hard-hitting brawl that showed just how unprepared we were for the kind of fast, mechanized war the Germans were waging. After their lightning dash to the Channel, the Germans dug in around Abbeville, threatening to...
by GeneralHowitzer | Jun 7, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Hedgerow Hell Hedgerow-Hell_whole Hedgerow-Hell_title Hedgerow-Hell_right2 Hedgerow-Hell_right1 Hedgerow-Hell_left2 Hedgerow-Hell_left1 Hedgerow-Hell_center2 Here’s a brief summary of the Battle of Hedgerow Hell in July 1944: When & Where:July 1944, in the dense...
by GeneralHowitzer | May 31, 2025 | 1940, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
The Cadets of Saumur (Overlord Map) Cadets-Saumur_title Cadets-Saumur_right2 Cadets-Saumur_right1 Cadets-Saumur_Left2 Cadets-Saumur_Left1 Cadets-Saumur_center2 Cadets-Saumur_center1 “Let me give it to you straight, boys—back in ‘39, before the big show kicked off in...
by GeneralHowitzer | May 9, 2025 | 1945, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Netherlands, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Special Weapons, Strategic, Theater: Western
Reichswald - The Siegried Line February 9th, 1945. The Reichswald—five miles of hell standing between us and the Ruhr, the industrial heart of Hitler’s war machine. You want to break Germany? You punch through there. We stacked the odds—brought in the numbers, massed...
by GeneralHowitzer | May 7, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Tactical, Theater: Western
Escouves Forest August 1944—Écouves Forest. Thick woods, rough country, and Germans with their backs to the wall. Perfect place for a fight. After we busted out of Normandy, the Krauts tried to make a stand in that damned forest north of Alençon, thinking trees and...
by GeneralHowitzer | May 6, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Closing the Falaise Gap August 1944—Falaise. The trap was nearly shut, and the Germans knew it. Hell, they could smell it. By the 18th, the Canadians had taken Trun and St. Lambert, putting the lid on the Falaise Pocket. But it wasn’t locked down yet—hell no. The line...
