Update: Calais.1944.Campaign.scn Diary

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Update:
1. 15th Army placed with as close to historical accuracy as I could get.
2. German captured equipment names changed to the german nomenclature.
3. Coastal defenses placed, including many coastal Artillery batteries.
4. HQs setup with commanders, but lacking images at present.
5. 1st SS Pz.Div and 2nd Pz.Div OOB primed for placement onto the map at historical location.
6. OOB cleaned up to my tastes, removing some of the Normandy OOB feel.


Setting - work in progress

Operation fortitude was a fake 3rd Army Group and was actual cover for Patton's 3rd Army. Stationed around Plymouth, helped to keep the German 7th Army and Panzer Reserves guessing about Normandy. Concrete and attention was split between Pas-de-calais and Normandy. Army Group B OOB remains intact with no structural changes and or additions.

It was the intent of overwhelming Allied forces would wash over the German defenders at the coast-line before reserves could be brought up. Airborne forces would land ahead of time with the task of cutting off the coastline and squeezing the pocket until it folded. Inland minefields may make this a little messy for those airborne forces.

Patton's 3rd Army would land east of Dunkirk and race for Antwerp. With the 1st Army landing around Calais and Dunkirk proceeding to mop up and protect Patton's flank by pushing inland towards Lille. The British and Canadian armies will land on the beaches to the west between Boulogne and Berck, driving south towards Abbeville and Amiens, attempting to block Axis mobile reserves from Northern and Central France.

Main VP locations
1. Invasion Beach areas
2. Abbeville-Amiens region (destroy those dreaded V1/V2 launch sites)
3. Antwerp area
4. Area near Givet (assembly area for V3 launch platforms)
5. And other misc locations as needed.

Ongoing work
1. Axis and Allies reinforcement schedule. I want to place added attention here, especially for Axis.
2. Troop quality for units of the German 15th Army. I modeled much of it off the forces in Normandy.
3. Obtaining images for various unit portraits.
4. Supply considerations
5. Obtaining information on any smaller german formations in the region (flak, security etc.) and if any units originally sent to Normandy from Germany that did not arrive in time, but however could have arrived at Pas-de-calais in the time given.

As always, thanks for reading. Hopefully you're interests is peeked, and feel free to make any suggestions.

Atheory