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The Command Card
February 4th, 2026
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Play Smarter. Strike Harder.
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Memoir '44 News
TWO WAYS TO TRACK SCENARIO WINS
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The General Howitzer site has two different ways for you to track Scenarios.
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1. Your Personal Win/Loss History
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This can be found at: https://generalhowitzer.com/my-battle-history/
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If you register [ https://generalhowitzer.com/register-2/ ] with the Gen. Howitzer site to get your own account, then this is just for you, and is your private record of accomplishments.
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2. Combined historical results for all players in the M44 community.
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This one is the one that is really interesting. Days of Wonder used to track this for the entire M44 community, but it seems that site has gone defunct. So we are tracking them now for the M44 community.
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First, https://generalhowitzer.com/scenarios-post-tables/
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Third, scroll to the bottom, to the section marked "Battle Reports", and then choose whether the Axis or Allies won.
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STRATEGY & TACTICS
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Card Focus: Their Finest Hour
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Memoir 44's card, Their Finest Hour is arguably one of the strongest cards in the deck. As a tactical command card, rather than a section card it is not limited to deploying troops from just one section. With this card, your troops from all across the battlefield can be deployed to attack any and all targets.
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It is not uncommon for a well-timed TFH to result in two to three Medals in just one turn.
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Here are the rules for the card usage:
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- Roll one battle die for each Command card you currently have (including this one).
- For each unit symbol rolled, one eligible unit of that type (your choice) may be ordered.
- For each Star rolled, one unit of your choice may be ordered.
- Ordered units battle with one additional die.
- After all battles are done, draw one Command card and reshuffle this card back into the deck.
But when to play it is key. There are two factors to consider before playing the card:
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1st - How many cards do you expect to be starting with?
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This will determine how many dice will be rolled, which will in turn decide which units you will be allowed to deploy. Since card hands are usually between 4 - 6 cards, there will be rolled for you 4 - 6 dice. Each dice roll has a 66% chance of giving you control of a unit ( 2 infantry, 1 armor, and 1 star which operates as a wild card).
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This means if you roll six dice, you are likely to order 4 units, if the odds hold out. Of course, if you only hold four cards, you might be ordering only 2. And of course, you need to have the units ordered. If you are playing an all infantry scenarios, then rolling an armor for TFH will not help you.
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2nd - Where is the enemy located?
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The enemy needs to be close enough to attack. Do not deploy this card too early. You want to be able to attack with every single unit ordered. So you need to wait for the enemy to come within striking distance ("Wait until you see the whites of their eyes!") and then... hit them with everything you've got!
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From General Howitzer:
The "Their Finest Hour" Speech
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🎙️ The Origin: Churchill’s “Finest Hour” Speech
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Place: House of Commons, London
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Occasion: France was collapsing under the German Blitzkrieg; Britain prepared for a possible invasion (Operation Sea Lion). Delivered just days after the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo). Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany; the United States had not yet entered the war.
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Purpose: Morale was low, invasion seemed imminent, and Churchill used this speech to steel the nation’s resolve for the struggle ahead — especially the coming Battle of Britain.
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Churchill concluded the speech with these immortal lines:
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“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over.
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I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.
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Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.
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Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire.
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The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
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If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
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But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for,
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will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”
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So when you play the card, Their Finest Hour, realized the immense historical significance of that phrase.
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This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence
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Recent Updates to the General Howitzer Community
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Capture of Sapun Ridge
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6 VP'sCard Balance: Allies (Soviet Union) - 6 Axis (Germany) - 5Complexity: 2Conditions: Countryside Context: HistoricalLocation: CrimeaYear: 1944Theater: EasternCampaign: Codename: Summary: Objectives: 6 VP's Battlefield: Countryside with trees and hills Troops: Allies - 11 Infantry, 2 Armor, 1 Artillery Axis - 9 Infantry, 1 Artillery Special Rules: 1. Sniper 2. Special Weapons 3. Night Attacks 4.  Steep Hills Allied Strategy: …
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Capture of Asosa
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Listen up—this is how wars are won. In March of ’41, a hard-fighting outfit from the Belgian Congo—the 11th Battalion of the Force Publique—marched into Abyssinia to take the fight straight to the Italians. No hesitation, no excuses. They clawed their way up the brutal high ground of Mount Kirin, took their hits in ambushes near Asosa and Megale, and …
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Easy Company - Paradrop in the Night
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They dropped our boys all over hell and back—but that didn’t stop them. The 506th Parachute Infantry hit the Normandy bocage scattered, disorganized, and under fire. But Americans don’t wait for perfect conditions—we make them. Lieutenant Richard Winters pulled together what he had—35 men—and went looking for the fight. Through hedgerows thick as walls and Germans lurking in every field, …
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Scenario Field Guide: Braskir Offensive
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Scenario Field Guide: Soviet Raid on Grigorevka [Ukraine]
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Scenario Field Guide: Knightsbridge [Battle of Gazala]
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Keep track of wins & losses for Axis vs. Allies in each scenario!
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Battlefield & Strategy Tips
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Events, Sitelinks, & Resources
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Upcoming Memoir 44 EVENTS!
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Dutch Open
February 21-22, 2026, Klundert, Netherlands
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