Calvados Coast for a beginner

[Tintin87]

6 June 1944 : 07:00

Turn 9

The germain fire response is intensive. I need to prepare my troops to hold on their position !
The 13th go north
The 1st Cdn go west to help the 13th.
The 9th continue to go south.
The 7th hold the position on Bénouville.




But the most important thing at this time is the beginning of landing beach on Sword Beach, with the 13-18th Hussars Regiment.
It is composed by Sherman V DD (Donald Duck).
I use Naval gun to destroy and fatigue ennemy artillery.






So now the Victory dialog is

For this turn the losses are :

-76 men for me
-107 men, 3 guns and 1 vehicle for the Axis

As we see the losses are higher for me than the precedent hours.

How long I can hold on the position ?

[Tintin87]

6 June 1944 : 07:30

Turn 10

Ok It is very exciting, the landing beach is now effective with the landing craft coming to Sword and Gold beach !


Situation near “Pont de Ranville”
-The 7th still Hold the position
-The 13th and 12th fight with the numerous Germain troops coming from the north

Now See The beach !

On Sword Beach :

-The Sherman V Crab of the 22sd Dragoons Rgt try to make a passage between mines !
They try to mahe their job with a lot of casualties.

Sherman V Crab on Gold Beach

We also have :
-5 RM Spt Sq with Sherman IIIA and Centaur IV
-5 Assault Rgt Royal Eng with engineer and Churchill AVRE (have a 30/1 on Hard target), in order to destroy bunker.
-1st Bn S.Lancashire
-2sd Bn E. Lancashire
-1er fusiliers Marins cdo, commander by The known French Capitaine Kieffer !


The first tanks are on beach and have several casualties, I call air support.

On Gold Beach :


I bomb a lot of smoke in order to protect the beach landing.


We have :
-the Westminster Dragoons with their Sherman crab.
-the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry with their Sherman II DD
-6 Assault Rgt Royal Eng with engineer and Churchill AVRE
-69th Infantry Brigade
-130th Infantry Brigade

Victory Dialog

For this turn the losses are :

-110 men, 2 guns, 19 Vehicles !, 5 Navals & 1 air for me
-107 men, 3 guns and 1 vehicle for the Axis (exactly the same of the last turn !)


We see the first effect of Beach Landing !
A total of 19 tanks were lost in the few minutes, huh !

[Tintin87]

Hi all, I hope you follow me with interest. I make sure a lot of mistake, and watch this DDay in the side of Bristish and Canadian men look interesting  !

6 June 1944 : 08:00

Turn 11


Let see the situation :

On the middle I try to hold my position and to encircle the Germain troops.






Now on Beach. As the troops are landed I describe the different battalion.
In fact I like what and where the Battalion are !



Sword Beach


The Sherman Crab and Engineer start to clear mines.
I breakdown my infantry company troops in order to limit stack penalitys.

There is on sword Beach north to south:

-41st RM Cdo (Royal Marine Commando)=> commando
-1st Bn S Lancashire Rgt => infantry
-2sd Bn Middleseix Rgt => MG motorized
-13-18th Hussars Rgt => Sherman V DD
-5 Assault Rgt Royal Eng => Engineers and Churchill AVRE
-5 RM Spt Sq => Sherman IIIA & Centeaur IV
-2st Bn E Yorkshire Rgt => infantry
-6th Commando = >Commando
-1er fusiliers Marins cdo : French commando



Gold Beach


Same situation : I try to clear mines and obstacles. My troops are landing under the germain fire.
I use smoke to help the landing.

The battalion are, west to east :


-1st The Hampshire Regt => Infantry
-1st The Dorsetshire Regt => Infantry
-6th The Green Howards => infantry + 6-pdr MK II
-5th East Yorshire Regt => Infantry + + 6-pdr MK II


and for the armoured :

-Nottinghamshire Yeomanry => Sherman II DD
-6 Assault Regt Royal Eng => engineer and Churchill AVRE
-Westminster Dragoons => Sherman crab.
-4-7th Royal Dragoon Gds => Sherman II DD



Juno Beach


The first wave is coming. I use smoke to protect (a little) the landing troops.

There are composed with Canadian Forces, west to east:


-1st Canadian Scottish Regt
-1st Hussars => Sherman DD
-The Royal Winnipeg Rifle
-The Regina Rifle Regt
-Royal Canadian Engineers


-The Fort Gary Horse => Sherman V DD
-Queens Own rifles of Cda => Infantry
-1st Bn Royal Cdn Eng => engineer


-The North Shore Regiment => Infantry




Finaly let's see our losses, I think there were higher with the landing. Indeed I lost numerous men in lost of landing craft !

The losses are :


-309 men, 4 guns, 3 Vehicles, 11 Navals for me
-163 men, 1 gun for the Axis

[Tintin87]

I have a question on stack limit on beach.
It is the same as the road on parameter data (80) ?

[Ricky B]

No, it is full stacking. Are you seeing something wrong?

Rick

[Tintin87]

Are you sure ?
I talk about penalty stacking.

With 72 men and 4 vehicles, the stacking on beach is 112X (on red) (1.1).
In other case, I have 89 X in yellow.

[Tintin87]

6 June 1944 : 08:30

Turn 12

Sector of Ranville

I managed to maintain the Germain progress. But they capture “Le Mesnil”. I will capture this town later.

Sector Bavent

My 9th Parachute Bn push on south sucessfully. I will take the german flag soon.

Sector Colombelles

The 8th Parachute Bn is front of 21 Panzer Division, with Somua S307 and Lorraine. I will be difficult to destroy this vehicles without At gun.
I hope I will not eliminate my all Battalion on this !

Sector Biéville

There is not much German defense on this city. There is a company of H39 7,5 Pak 40 near the village.

Sector Sword Beach


I go carefully on the beach.


New Battalion arrived :
-1st Bn The Suffolk Regt
-3rd Commando
-Royal Engineers

Gold Beach

A new Battalion, the 47th (Royal Marine) Cdo is landing on beach on Jig green Sector.

Juno Beach

As new Battalion we have :
-42th Assault Regt Royal Eng is landing on beach on Mike Sectorand -2sd RM Spt Regt.
-Le Regt de la Chaudière

So now let see the Victory dialog !

The losses are :


-256 men, 10 guns, 23 Vehicles, 6 Navals for me
-326 men, 3 gun and 1 vehicle for the Axis


It is a bloody battle ! I can't imagine how bloody is the Omaha scenario !

[Ricky B]

Are you sure ?
I talk about penalty stacking.

With 72 men and 4 vehicles, the stacking on beach is 112X (on red) (1.1).
In other case, I have 89 X in yellow.

Ah sorry. It is the same as in regular land. It does go to Yellow stacking at 81, and 101 and higher is red. It isn't determined by the Road limit, but the maximum limit. From the user manual:


Stack Fire – a modifier applies to Direct fire and Indirect fire from half the stacking limit (1.0) up to maximum stacking limit (2.0). This represents the higher casualties due to the increased density in a hex.

There is nothing I know of that defines Yellow and Red more specifically than that. There is no penalty with Yellow, I believe it is just a warning that the stack is close to the limit. In Normandy, max stacking is 200, so the penalty starts at 101.

Rick

[Tintin87]

Ok thanks for your answer !

[Strela]

Tintin87 - great AAR!

There is a penalty though for staying on the beach. Any fire on units in a beach hex have a +25% modifier. This represents the lack of cover and ease of hitting any troops on an open beach. You have to get off that quickly or do what you did, use smoke to mask every defender from seeing you.

Glad you're enjoying the game!

Dqvid