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Gold Beach Commemorative 75th Anniversary Panzer Leader
My friends @brucelea and @damon are gearing up for a 75th Anniversary wargame of Avalon Hill’s classic Panzer Leader – recreating part of 50th Northumbrian Division’s landing at “Jig” sector, Gold Beach, 07:20 hours, 06 June 1944.
Initial waves will be made up of 1st Bn / Hampshire Rgt and 1st Bn / Dorsetshire Rgt, followed up by 47th Royal Marine Commandos, Royal Engineers, 2nd Bn / Devonshire Rgt, RFA batteries, and Sherwood Rangers (Sherman DD tanks).
They’ll be up against elements of Infantry Division 352 (Grenadier Rgt 916), and elements of 441 “East” Battalion, Rgt 726, 716 Static Infantry.
At least two of us have walked these battlefields, so there will be something of a connection in the design and play of this wargame.
The game will be played on-line on Saturday, June 8.
This thread will record some of the research, design, and of course game play that goes into this small week-long project.
And finally, the first work-in-progress of the Panzer Leader map board. She’s not quite finished (no trees, a few labels missing, and of course one of the German beach defenses on here yet). But she’s on her way. My goal is to finish the map by Tuesday and get started on counters Wednesday and Thursday. Friday we’ll hammer out a few special rules and design the workbook by which @brucelea and @damon and I will play the game (I’m taking the Germans) …
… and Saturday we hit the beach!
Really looking forward to seeing how it goes
It’s gonna be awesome @brucelea . Now to save time, I will be “rounding off” some of the Amphibious Landing rules we see in Panzer Leader Rules Section XI. To do an amphibious landing the way the book has it is actually a lot of fun, if you like “role playing” as a battalion or brigade commander who literally has to plan out how his force will land on paper in advance, then watch it all go to hell with drift and tide and enemy fire. Friendly landing forces are “masked” (inverted in tabletopplay) – this is to keep the… Read more »