Normandy '44 AAR

[Plain Ian]

Apologies to CountryBoy but I couldn't resist adding in some charts and graphs to this great AAR. I realize this will send 99% of people to sleep but I find it useful when following a battle to analyse the losses....zzzzz.

So here are the losses for both sides and the net variances. No surprises I think. Allied losses in men is narrowing and German losses in guns and vehicles is widening. German Vehicles losses have plateaued from Turn 28. Of course vehicle losses might not mean tanks or assault guns.



Assuming that Turn 14 kind of represents the point where the invasion stage finishes and we are now on the part where the front lines are forming then I thought I'd use T14 as a base and show losses from this point. German losses in men have clearly doubled in the last 21 turns whilst allied loss rate has slowed slightly. German vehicle losses now stand out. 60 up to Turn 14 and then a further 129 from T14 to T35. No big deal though if these are all small A/T vehicle/guns. 



And finally the graphs....zzzzz. Sometimes its easier to see things in graphs rather than boring figures.
I've added a trend line to the losses in men to show that although losses are clearly rising the trend is flattening. I think CountryBoy has hinted that the battle has slowed down a bit. 

The graph showing losses in guns clearly is flattening around about Turn 22. Vehicles shows a slight flattening about Turn 28. 



Anyway that's enough of that. Back to enjoying Christmas folks!