The sleepy village of Hermanville, Normandy, June 1944 Mike kindly hosted the game at his house - many thanks for the tea and biscuits too!Īs it was such a fun and absorbing game, the photos are not quite turn by turn but hopefully you'll get a flavour of the action with the key events. So they’ll be helping the Warwicks take the village. In fact many of these chaps helped reinforce the 2 Btn Ox & Bucks at the bridges during D-Day.
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How to fit in my Paras though? Well, 7th Btn Parachute Regiment was originally intended for Operation Tonga (capturing the bridges on the Allies eastern flank) but Pine-Coffin’s men were very badly scattered.
I can’t find any info about exactly which units took the village, so Steve’s chaps will be 2nd Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Troops of the 3rd infantry division took this route inland towards Caen. To the fact that these are the figures we have available o) Now, as you'll see we've had to "adjust" the forces slightly fromĮxactly those that would have been there on the day - this is simply due It’s just half a mile inland from Sword beach and was officially captured by late morning on 6th June 1944. The village that Steve and I will be attacking is going to be Hermanville.
To fit our game (and to be honest, the forces we have available) nicely in to the campaign we’ve devised a vaguely plausible ‘what if’. Our game is just one such Push Inland (Battleground Europe - Scenario 5). It was imperative that the first forces to arrive quickly neutralised the beach defences and pushed inland. The Paras were initially repulsed in game one of the campaign, so we've moved forward a few hours on D-Day to just after the initial Allied foothold was gained on Sword Beach.
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