World in Flames Redux

[Schwerpunkt75]

DeTurk vs. dawags

A major victory for the Norwegians in our game.
I attacked the paratroopers dropping mid map, which turned the game to the Norwegian side.

Interesting to know if any of the German players had any success with their Schutzens in the far left boats?
Seemed to be fish in a barrel for the Norwegian early...

Dale
dawags

I'd be shocked if any Axis player were able to make an opposed amphibious assault work. Even if by some miracle you were able to get some troops ashore, the point losses among the boats alone (which don't have crews) would virtually guarantee a loss.

[Nort]

In our game, Kernel t did a nice job with his amphibious landing. He swung all his boats around to his right (to my Norwegians’ left) and landed almost everyone safely. The only instance of German losses was when one of my airstrikes emptied out one of his boats.

Those Germans advanced into town and our battle turned into a door-to-door urban street fight. It was a grind of arty, smoke and cat-and-mouse tactics.

[Schwerpunkt75]

In our game, Kernel t did a nice job with his amphibious landing.  He swung all his boats around to his right (to my Norwegians’ left) and landed almost everyone safely. The only instance of German losses was when one of my airstrikes emptied out one of his boats.

Those Germans advanced into town and our battle turned into a door-to-door urban street fight.  It was a grind of arty, smoke and cat-and-mouse tactics.

Landing everyone to the west (away from the Norwegian defenses) is basically the only option for the seaborne troops to have any success/survival.

In my game, it took the lives of a lot of schutzen, plus their boats, before I figured this out. Even then, a lucky (or from my perspective, unlucky) map-based artillery strike from General Lee wiped out almost all of the surviving infantrymen, just as they were about to disembark.