Normandy 44 Bunkers

[Gordons HQ]

Hi Volcano Man,
Firstly I am playing your latest version and I can see the radio man clearly.
Secondly I'm not sure how many have played this scenario, where these pillboxes are stacked so extensively. I think anyone who has would be a genius to get off the beach, any ordinary player like me has no real chance at all.
I have played the standard campaign and scenarios and although it was a struggle I've always managed eventually to get off Omaha in them.
To me what the real problem here is that the release of all the Axis units, mostly by 1000 on the 6th June. This allows the Axis player to move them all to the beach and into these pillboxes quicker than the Allies can get things moving along.
In the game we are playing most of these contain something like six 100 men (or more) companies plus guns of some sort, in fact a 7 stack pillbox. This I firmly believe was in fact impossible for the Axis in real life.
The problem here for the Allied player is he has to disrupt all these units before he has a realistic chance of assaulting these boxes. The odds here are very bad, because to get off the beach you have to disrupt and assault three such adjacent boxes because of ZOC. This means disrupting about 18 or more units. No mean task considering most of your own units are without tanks or are disrupted themselves.
So knowing you are not going to get off the beach and the units there have no choice but to be eventually wiped out. What do you do with with all the other reinforcements.
As it stands there is no option and the Allies will probably lose at this early point in the scenario. I think there is a big need for some other option in the game here or a reduced stacking limit for the pillboxes.
I am now at this point in our game, to put any more men ashore would be foolish and only give easy points to my opponent. So I am left with the choice of trying to rescue the game without gaining Omaha from the seaward side. An interesting if perhaps hopeless task.
In all other aspects I have found the scenario very good. At one point I thought the 6th Airbourne was in grave danger, but it looks as if that can now be rescued.
I admire the time and work you put into these scenario's and I hope there is something that can be done here, of course this is just my point of view and others may disagree.

Regards,
Gordon