Sword beach in N44

[todk]

Thanks Volcano for your post. A few points: essentially I did all that and it still took almost until sundown to take the pillboxes. I don't see any weak points in the German line as all 4 hexes adjacent to the beach are pillboxes - two of them in town/village. The only hexes adjacent to the British positions that are not occupied by Germans in pillboxes are on the extreme right of the British line where the commandos are and they are in German zocs. 1 hex is clear and the other is swamp. I did move a commando company into the zones of control and after a few turns isolated the pillbox and eventually that's what did it but my concern is about the historicity of the system. Historically the pillboxes were taken by, in game turns, turn 2 (8:00). I don't see this as being possible in the game since direct assaults don't seem to work on turn 1 or 2 - they result in very low casualties and even no casualties on either side let alone the taking of the positions. I would feel better about the system if it was at least possible for the historical result to happen. Also, on naval and air attack on the pillboxes/bunkers my experience is that 95% of the time the result is a "no effect" result and the other 5% of the time they may cause some fatigue. I think this is realistic ( although it seems that historically the allies thought they would have more effect) and in the game I use my naval/air to hit units not in pillboxes/bunkers. Would appreciate your thoughts on this.