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First up @oriskany, yes there is something seriously wrong with you. Your a Wargamer.
One thing I noticed when playing mega D-Day was the German defence. It reminded me of German defensive tactics on the Eastern Front in winter in a number of ways.
Units are spread out in pockets that are supposed to be mutually supportive but are on a frontage many times larger than the frontage normally assigned to a unit of this size.
Hitler in his usual way thinks it worked in Russia so I will ask even more of it, without understanding why it worked in Russia. Firstly in Russia it only worked just by its finger nails. It was operated by veterans with the highest level of training. I.e. you could take a sub unit from one unit and place it in another unit, even if it is a different type and it would all work seamlessly. The soldier was trained for this. In this respect Hitler never appreciated or understood what he had in his early war soldiers.
So in Normandy he used even larger frontage with 2nd rate troops never trained for this. He does not provide nearly enough fire brigade units to cap break throughs on this thin depth of defence. One big issue was the divisional flanks in that they are badly blurred and smudged up like a finger painting. This creates a zone in which no-one is sure who is in charge of who and where does the supply come from. This actually slowed down play in the mega as players tried to sort this mess out. We mostly played a single breach our sector. We found it was better to play beaches in a number of sessions that had sleep between them. The amount of silly mistakes that crept in because of lack of sleep. Even having two or more people on the same side did not prevent this.
Given the amount of sleep the commanders at Normandy were getting the silly mistakes might actually be realistic.
So the board is set, any idea when the pieces start moving?
I certainly look forward to watching it happen as I brings back many memories of sleepless weekends. I still don’t know how we did this and turn up for work on the Monday.
I like that fact that today it is played out on the PC. This saves many hours of setting up and packing away that would have to be done if played with counters on map. Recording where each counter was, was a pain.
