Normandy '44 AAR

[CountryBoy]

That's a nice idea. I guess it works when fighting in Field terrain as your units should be able to pull back 2 hexes in one go? Elevations and low quality might screw this up? In Bocage the movement cost won't allow this but then Bocage gives you -50 protection.  

I checked and was surprised to find that even Field gives -25 protection. Forest is -35 and Orchard is -30. That hopefully keeps casualties down when using the Alt fire rules. Yes the allies cannot stay too long stacked in Clear terrain.

I use Jisons mod as well for Bulge. Makes it a bit easier to look at all those wood/forest hexes and towns jump out a bit more. Unfortunately it takes awhile to get used to Fields and Bocage being quite similar in Normandy 44.

Yes, it works reasonably well in field terrain, allowing units to pull back to the new defensive line or even beyond it in some cases. In bocage I don't use the same approach, simply digging in in a line 3 or 4 hexes deep and retreating one hex at a time.

The Allied strategy has basically been to move up to my defensive line and dig in. They then wait for airstrikes and artillery to disrupt my units and then launch an assault. I have found that there is nothing to gain using direct fire with my units - they invariably get disrupted by the artillery strikes that firing attracts. So it has become a strange game where there is almost no direct fire, except when units move into contact with each other.