Omaha

[Mike Bowen]

Thanks for the detailed summary Mike, most appreciated. I will take all of this under consideration for updating, pending other comments. What was your final points level? I agree your manpower losses seem about right - I think your gun and tank losses were a bit higher than I was used to seeing in my testing. However, David and I discussed the fixed rocket launcher positions and I never tested after those were added - I suggested they get removed after a few turns as they couldn't be quickly reloaded but I see they are permanent and offer a lot of extra firepower to the Germans. That will be something I will take a close look at, maybe remove after turn 5 or so.

2 immediate comments, I will hold others for later. Regarding the objectives, I focused them on the beach exits as they were the US objectives in the initial landings. I did not put objectives in between those exists because they were not a key part of the initial plan of advance. However, I found that as happened historically, pushing inland between the exists made it easier to clear the exits as the defenses are a bit weaker. And I didn't place objectives away from the beach area as the German reserves are fairly minimal and it unbalanced things if the US player could push a narrow hole through the defenses and then march on inland objectives - the German player has no significant counter to this move.

Interesting to hear that 45,23 held out for an extended period. I purposely set it to be a Pillbox rather than PILLBOX as it was incomplete at the time of the landings and put up a lesser fight as a result. In my tests, probably 5 play throughs, it always fell a bit easily as I wanted, but I may have focused extra attention on it knowing it is a weak spot? Or just bad luck on your part, the initial landings do drive a lot of what happens. It does have the 532nd Div forces defending it so they are a step up from the Ost forces in many of the other positions.

Thanks again
Rick