Campaign Normandy

[Liquid_Sky]

I thought I might share some thoughts from when I played the campaign as the germans (to July 1st).

We managed to average about a turn a day over all....but then there is a stretch of about 50 turns of storm. Where you can essentially do nothing but maneuver reinforcements to the front. (Entrenched Germans in Bocage = 90% protection, and storm halves attack for assault and shooting). During that time we might email back and forth 4-5 times in one night.

German artillery is deadly. Super deadly. They get a ton of rocket artillery that is absolutely lethal. Did I mention the rockets? Bad..very bad.

You can easily trade space for time. You get more divisions faster then the allies for the month of June....and the farther they advance, the more spread out they will be. Then storm hits, and you get 4-6 days to put 2 battalions to defend every hex of the front.

Air interdiction proved to only be an annoyance. Units that were hurt bad by moving along the roads in travel mode would rebuild after a day or two sitting behind the front line.

German SS divisions get a lot of combat engineers. With great assault values. When 1200 of them assault your position, you will lose 100 men defending...even if you are not on low ammo/disrupted. In fact, many times I didn't want to take the hex, just inflict casualties. And they will have a few stacks of them from the 17th SS, 12th SS, 1st SS, 2nd SS, 9th SS and 10th SS.

There will be no mobile warfare after the storm. The panzers (or allied tanks for that matter) will be best used in stacks to rain fire and destruction on adjacent hexes.

Once the lines are set, the turns are actually very fast and easy to do. The worst time consumer is the early game, when you have to sort out your divisions, and bring the rush of reinforcements in....or for the allies, reorganizing your paratroopers and and initial invasion forces.