by GeneralHowitzer | Aug 20, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Mobile Artillery, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Coldstream Hill Hill 309 in Normandy wasn’t just another patch of dirt—it became Coldstream Hill because the 4th Battalion, Coldstream Guards, stormed it on July 30, 1944, and planted their flag in blood and steel. This was part of Operation Bluecoat—launched while...
by GeneralHowitzer | Aug 11, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, D-Day, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Drop in the Night: 82nd 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...
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...
