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Royal Marines WTO (id:#56298)

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See Also: Royal Marines by Multi-Man Publishing

Langrune-sur-Mer, France 1944-06-06 (299 others)

Designer: Adrian Catchpole

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Balance:

BritishGerman

Overview:

In the grand design of Overlord, five Royal Marine Commando groups were organized into two Special Service battalions and detailed to clear German strongpoints along the 20 mile frontage of Gold, Juno and Sword. With the Canadians allotted a scant 30 minutes to silence the enemy along the beach, it was unsurprising when the Marines' landing craft came under heavy fire. But the bulk of the commandos succeeded in assembling on their start line at the eastern end of St. Aubin, from which they struck out for the nearby village of Langrune. Encountering only scattered resistance at first, the two troops -- X and B -- and two tanks of the Royal Marine Armoured Support Group made good progress . . until they came up against the fortified core of the strongpoint with extensive fortifications, including a five-foot anti-tank ditch.

Attacker: British (B and X Troops, 48th Royal Marine Commando and 2nd Royal Marine Armoured Support Regiment)

Defender: German (Infanterie Regiment 736)

8 turns

Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No

Unit Counts:

Squads: A:14.0 D:12.0

AFVs: A:2

Centaur IV x 2

AFVs: D:0

Guns: A:0 D:0

5cm leGrW 36 x 2

Misc Rules:

D: 7 FB locations on Board c. Tunnels are NA. AT Ditches may be placed in road hexes.

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Date	Reporter		Opponent	Result	Comments
2017-04-15	(D) Tom Kearney	vs	Lindsey Murillo	German win	Commonwealth in Normandy campaign.
2015-06-06	(A) Ian Morris	vs	Derek Cox	British win
2012-06-10	(D) Ron Garcia	vs	Darryl M.	German win
2011-04-02	(D) Fred Ingram	vs	Jeff DeYoung	German win	I had only played Jeff once before at the Open (2003) and won playing “High Tide at Heiligenbeil”. So here was his chance at revenge. Unfortunatley, we should have rented a pit auditorium so everyone could come and watch my clinic on how to dice someone in a scenario. The game starts with Jeff moving his 9-2 and three 6-4-8 squads with various SW though a building hex (the one I had bore-sighted from my 9-2 led HMG). What should have been a relatively safe move through a stone building turned into a 6 FP -2 opportunity for the Germans. After 2 rate shots on the 2 MF spent in the hex, and 4 more in final fire, all there was left in that hex were some slippery weapons and assorted body parts. Follow-up shots from a forward squad and a sniper also wounded the 9-1 leader and broke a few squads in another hex. It never stopped. Either I rolled really low to break people, or I got a simple NMC and he rolled terrible. I had an upper level encircled 4-4-7 long range prep fire shot against a stationary 10-2 stack with three 6-4-8’s in the open. A lousy 2+1 shot ends up breaking the whole stack. One of his tanks goes CE to try a flanking maneuver on my left to smoke the 9-2 HMG stack on level 2 in the next turn. In my movement phase I had to back up out of LOS of his other tank, In advancing fire, I shoot the 1 FP long range from the 9-2 led squad at his CE tank and roll snakes to recall it. It was only at turn 5 that he finally saw his first fortified building (so he could at least focus his attack). Jeff stumbled into every minefield I had placed on my left flank. There just was not enough time left. He made it somewhat close, but I had 3 building left in my control, and he could not muster up the right amount of movement factors to get under the wire in front of them on his last movement phase. Even his last attempt to smoke my 9-2 led HMG group resulted in a MA malfunction. Jeff was not above the luck factor either, he had generated 6 heroes through the game, and they were delivering candy grams at will it seemed.
2009-04-21	(D) Martin Sabais	vs	Tosh	British win	Close and hard fought victory for the Brits

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Avg Rating: 6.75	Votes: 12
Views:	6610
To-Play list count:	5
Estimated Play time:	5.4 hours
Recorded Games:	11

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German	7
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Royal Marines [Confirmed]

[A] British	47
[D] German	37

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