Normandy '44 AAR

[CountryBoy]

I expected a bloodbath with the alt rules in place, but casualties are quite low thus far. As you mentioned earlier, direct fire not used by both sides.

Not being able to use the higher soft attack values the Germans tend to enjoy does complicate things. At some point you'll have to stop the Allies and their current losses are not high enough to have a significant impact on their capabilities across the map I'd say. Though I expect the airborne units moving along the beach hexes have taken a beating, manpower losses with the current pdt settings can be managed.

Yes, both sides tend not to use direct fire at all. From the German perspective, nearly every occasion I have been tempted to use direct fire my units have been slammed by Allied artillery (and closer to shore a naval bombardment). The few times I have done it I have tended to regret it!

From the Allied perspective, the approach seems to be to move into contact, dig in, rely on artillery and air bombing to disrupt the defending units, and then assault. It works and it presumably limits Allied losses from opp fire.

But yes, at some point I will have to make more of an effort to stop the Allied advance. A this stage I am thinking that this starts once my front line (or most of it) sits on bocage, which at least offers some extra defence (although for the Allies too).