Old School Tactical Scenarios
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The 13th Guards Division fought bravely and suffered tremendous losses after rushing into the burning city. Their sacrifice saved the 62nd Army from… The Russians launch Operation Bagration seeking the destruction of Army Group Center. Tanks of the 5th Army push westward. The 501st Heavy Panzer… While the American infantry fought for and captured the Elcherath hills, most of 9th Armored CCB fought a day long tank duel with elements of the 1st… In the initial stages of Barbarossa, many Russian units were in disarray and struggled to get back home. Retreating East to the Berezina River, a… After three days of fighting, the 330th Infantry Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division has captured the town of Strass. The German defenders,… This 2 day battle offers a glimpse of the many battles fought near Minsk. Units of the Russian 11 th Guards Army scrapping with units of the… The Russians attempt to break the encirclement of Leningrad and the 2nd Shock Army leads the charge. The German 58th Infantry Division has dug in on… Evening, South of the Stalingrad Pocket. The snow falls heavily on the 15th of December and two forces seek shelter from the howling wind in a small… General Yamashita Tomoyuki committed tanks of the 2nd Armored Division in counterattacks to slow the US army's advance. Japanese tanks were ill… After landing and capturing Henderson Field, the spread out Marines prepared defenses on its perimeter. The Japanese were initially caught off guard… Germany collapsed as the US 1st and 9th Armies divided the already encircled Ruhr. Some towns greeted the Americans with white flags while others… The 112th Cavalry Regiment was landed as an infantry unit at Arawe. Dismounted now, the troopers had little training as an infantry unit and no… The Josef Stalin heavy tank became separated from its unit and bogged down in the marsh of the back woods. Its commander, the son of a Russian… On December 19th, the Wehrmacht continued to advance towards the vital crossroads town of Bastogne. Sent to delay them were the men of Team Desobry.… The 330th Infantry Regiment of the 83 rd Infantry Division is sent to capture the town of Strass, near the Hurtgen Forest. The town was defended by… The Germans threw everything that they had at the Remagen bridgehead. The Arado Ar234 Blitz jet bomber, massive artillery barrages, V2 rockets (their… After being severely mauled by the Japanese defenders, the Marines were pulled back. Eliminating the pockets of enemy soldiers holed upin the Umbrogol… The West Wall fortifications stood between the Allies and the German homeland. They would make the enemy pay dearly for each step into Germany. Near… German special forces from the 1st Company of the Brandenburg Regiment move ahead of the main advance to wreak havoc with the Soviet command… Morning dawned and it became obvious that there was no defeating and no more delaying the German advance. Team Desobry’s only chance was to break out… It was said that the men in Assault gun platoons led short, eventful lives. A tank heavy Soviet force pressures the German lines North of Velikiye… In the darkness and fog, some German Jagdpanzers and troops make it into town unopposed. Once discovered, a deadly fight erupts as they battle… The battle for the crossroads was chaos. First one, then the other side would gain control of the key buildings. The Brass kept sending… The Russian winter offensive pushes West of Rzhev. A mechanized group breaks into open ground. It crests a hill and surprises a German convoy on the… The Russian winter campaign was taking its toll on the cold German soldiers. A German rear guard on the road to haev must destroy a key bridge to… On the second day of the invasion, D+1, Major Michael Ryan gathered what Marines and Engineers he could and prepared to sweep Green Beach of its… After landing, one of MacArthur’s priorities was capturing this airfield to use in the campaign. Japanese units of the Kembu Group stiffened their… The Marines didn’t budge and shut down the Japanese counterattack. But the threat remained to the beachhead. Switching over to attack, the Marines… The Allies had to break out from the deadly stalemate being fought in the hedgerows. Their answer was Operation Cobra. The elite Panzer Lehr Division… Operation Bagration pushes West with a fury. Units from the 14th SS and 1st Panzer Divisions are isolated in a section of Brody. The Germans are… After capturing Aitape in April, large Japanese forces were cut off as they were withdrawing to the West. These forces, under the command of… Case Blue is in motion. The tanks and troops of the 4th Panzer Army surge towards Kotelnikovo. Armor of the Russian 4th Tank Army moves forward to put… A German platoon from the 34th Infantry Regiment has found itself behind enemy lines after a confusing night of battle. Under cover of a heavy… The sun has risen on June 6 and the great invasion has begun. The paratroopers in Saint-Mere-Fglise hold on to what they have gained. Stragglers… Arriving in Belgium without their tanks, the men of the 740th Tank Battalion scraped together what armor they could at a depot enroute to the front.… 1941 wasn’t all about retreats. The Germans were exhausted, they had fought, they had pushed, hard. Last night the advance ended in the small village,… The mighty 6th Army is collapsing. Trapped inside the Stalingrad pocket, Paulus and his soldiers desperately hold on. But they are freezing, they are… The German assaults squeeze the 62nd Army against the Volga. The landing stages for the Russian troops and supplies will be in danger if the enemy… Units of 2nd Panzer Group push into the Russian defenses. Guderian pushes his units hard, pushing Eastward to the Dnieper River. The Russian 13th Army… The ’Big Red One’ had been in constant combat since the D-Day landings. They were in the Ardennes area for rest and refit when the German offensive… The 101st Airborne troops were scattered badly by poor weather, heavy flak and poor pathfinding. The 2nd Battalion of the 506th PIR fared better than… The island of Biak in Western New Guinea was very hot but very dry. It had few sources of fresh water, so any source would be worth fighting for. This… The Lunga Ridge was a grassy knoll that rose from the jungle, South of Henderson Field. It was a gateway to the airbase. Major General Kiyotake… Southeast of St. Vith, the village of Elcherath was captured by the 190th Regiment of the 62nd Volksgenadier during the morning of the 18th. In the… Elements of Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki’s 28th, Infantry Regiment were landed by destroyer East of the Marine perimeter on Guadalcanal. They set out… In supporting attacks of the 27th Infantry Division, the tanks of the 193rd Tank Battalion found themselves isolated. To make matters worse, they ran… The scattered paratroopers of the 101st formed many small pockets of Resistance behind enemy lines after the D-Day drops. These isolated groups did… The German 16th Army is trapped in a pocket around Demjansk and five Soviet armies are trying desperately to crush it. At dawn, units of the Russian… Lost! Again! The platoon was behind enemy lines, Damn! The Sergeant just felt it, he knew how things worked. The replacement 2nd Louie they were… Hitler’s commando, Otto Skorzeny, formed a volunteer unit of English speaking troops to infiltrate American positions. Wearing US uniforms, these… The alarm has been raised. US soldiers with armor backup move to eliminate the saboteurs in their lines. The German commandos have nowhere to run.… US forces continued to drive inland. They had to remove the threat of Japanese artillery which was still in range. Marines and tanks pushed through… The M36 Jackson was an upgunned tank destroyer that gave the Americans a gun that could tangle with the powerful German tanks. In the Ruhr, armored… The hedgerow fighting in Normandy was brutal for the Americans. The stout earthen mounds, covered in vegetation, made any progress slow and costly.… Of course, the Tigers weren’t the only bad news. The mist had finally lifted and Desobry’s men realized that they were damn near surrounded. The Jagdpanzer 38 was nicknamed Hetzer, or hunter by the German troops. But lately the hunters had become the hunted. The two tank destroyers sat… Seeking to expand the beachhead around Cape Torokina, Marines and navy construction units were ambushed when moving into a coconut grove. The next… Having just landed in Normandy a handful of days prior, men of the "Sante Fe" Division were about to get their first taste of combat in France.… Operation Barbarossa is launched. Tank on tank actions occur all along the front. In this small fight, German tanks tangle with a surprised group of… War does not take a holiday in the siege of Bastogne. The Germans are determined to snuff out Resistance. Panzers and Grenadiers push their way into… Volksgrenadiers approach the village from the South. They bring a pair of Jagdpanzers and a Flakpanzer with them to blast out the defenders. Green… The Battle for Okinawa, Operation Iceberg for the US, was the largest and costliest campaign in the Pacific theater of WW II. The Japanese would call… Veteran units of the 2nd Infantry Division dig in at the crossroads. They seek to blunt the German juggernaut heading towards the twin villages of… The fight moves to the town square. The paratroopers must clear out the enemy from every building. The Germans that have remained in town are not… Captain Ivan Sokolov has brought his men through many rough battles, including the cauldron of Smolensk. The nickname “Lucky Ivan' was conferred upon… The 5th Marines made the most progress on this first day of the invasion. As they approached the airfield, Colonel Kunio Nakagawa launched a… German defenses came together in the city of Metz to put a stop to Patton’s 3rd Army. The Americans needed intelligence for the upcoming assault. A… Pearl Harbor was just the beginning. The Japanese offensive spread throughout the Pacific. The American outpost on tiny Wake Island was in their path.… On the approach to Voronezh, a hill sits with a commanding view that both sides want. The Germans and Russians both rush forward to claim it, no… Cutoff and surrounded, the ’Battling Bastards of Bastogne’ will not surrender. The Germans look for a weak spot in the American perimeter. The… After the Americans broke free with Operation Cobra, the Germans had to react to slow their advance. A counter attack was launched in the area of… Operation Barbarossa is launched. Explosive clashes happen all along the front. This is one small dash' of troops just over the border. A German recon… The Americans couldn’t believe their luck when they came upon the Ludendorff Bridge still intact. They rushed to capture it and pushed as many troops… As the front lines pushed deeper into Russia, partisans rose up behind them. Anti-partisan operations became a necessity and SS units were often… The Recon units of the 3rd Army were known as Patton’s Ghosts because they moved so swiftly and quietly that they were never detected by the enemy… The attack is sprung and Kampfgruppe Peiper moves with great purpose to reach the River Meuse. The panzers and troops of the spearhead must brush… Operation Typhoon exhausted the German army at the gates of Moscow. The Soviets immediately launch a counteroffensive to push back the invaders. Near… Leading up to Operation Watchtower, Marine Raiders carried out missions to gather intelligence and wreak havoc on Japanese lines of communication. At… A large number of Japanese soldiers had been cutoff and trapped near Nafutan Point when the US offensive pressed North. On this night, a number of… The war in Stalingrad evolved into a bitter, dirty fight in the rubble. The Germans called it the ‘Rattenkrieg’ or ‘War of the Rats’. Small groups of… The Japanese had worked on fortifying Betio Island for almost a year before the Marines arrived. Rear Admiral Keiji Shibazaki boasted to his troops… Afternoon, South of the Stalingrad Pocket. The village had spawned several Partisan attacks on passing convoys. The SS were determined to exact… When Army Croup Center collapsed and cities capitulated, there were a many pockets of isolated Cerman soldiers left behind. They were called… In the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa, some of the most intense fighting happened near the town of Brody. Army Group South’s 1st Panzer Group… Once the airfields had been captured by the Americans, the battle for Biak became a slow, grinding affair. The terrain kept most engagements to a… The 13th Guards Division was reaching its breaking point. In the early morning hours, elements of the 284th Rifle Division were ferried across the… After a heartbreaking day at Suicide Creek, a weapons platoon pulls back and start digging in for the night. Seen by no one, a group of Japanese have… The lightning speed of the German Blitzkrieg opened many gaps in the supply line. South of Bialystok, tanks of the 3rd Panzer Division have run out of… As a fortified city, or Fester Piatz, Bobruisk was to be defended at all costs as decreed by Hitler. These orders hamstrung the German commanders and… As Vitebsk was a salient in the German lines it was one of the first cities overrun by the Russians in Operation Bagration. The Russian Fronts had… As the Ardennes offensive plunged forward, a defensive position developed in St. Vith by the Americans. Elements of many different units retreated to,… Nearing the end of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japanese forces on the island were on the brink of collapse. The IJA and IJN would evacuate and save as… Major General William Rupertus had told his boys in the 1st Marine Division that this island would be secured in just 4 days. His men ate their… Sergeant Steiner and his men have been pulling back for a week. With the cold and the Russians at their heels, the platoon has had enough. When they… Sugarloaf Hill was not large, but it was an anchor of the Shuri Line of Japanese defenses. It was heavily fortified and would see some of the fiercest… Moving out from Cape Glouchester, the Marines came upon a small creek that wasn’t on any map. It had no name. The Japanese soldiers were waiting for… One winter day in the soviet Union. Lieutenant Voss was tired of sleeping in tents. So were his men. Tonight they would capture that village, and they… The fight moves to the town square. The paratroopers must clear out the enemy from every building. The Germans that have remained in town are not… One thing was certain when fighting the Germans. If you dislodged them from their positions, you knew damn well that they would be back. Having… After forcing their way through the Raiders on the Piva Trail, reinforced elements of the Iwasa Detachment move on the US beachhead at Cape Torokina.… The noose was tightening on the Falaise pocket with two German armies trying to escape the trap. The US 5th Armored Division moves towards Argentan to… Hours before the beach landings on D-Day, thousands of paratroopers were dropped into occupied France in the dead of the night. One of the primary… The initial attack drove Desobry’s men back to Noville proper. There they waited, hoping against hope that the Germans were through with them. They… By Hitler’s order, all political officers captured by the German army were to be treated severely, normally shot on sight. A Commisar and some NKVD… A large ornate house, nicknamed the 'Gingerbread House’, dominates the outskirts of a small village. The German commander sends in assault troops and… The Russian Guards were elite units of the Soviet Union. They distinguished themselves against their foe. The German 4th Panzer Army pushes to relieve… In the cold winters, the German armu fortified many small villages to hold on. These strongpoints would continue to fight even as the Russian winter… The Moscow-Minsk highway was crucial to both sides in the summer of 44. Pushing through, the Russian armies would have a gateway to rapidly move West,… Morning, South of the Stalingrad Pocket. They found their place to rest. Nevertheless, the Russians held the Eastern half of the town. At dawn’s early… The Japanese retreated to the Northern part of the island and waited for help from the Imperial Japanese Navy. When the IJN was soundly defeated, all… The Germans are now struggling to survive the freezing winter temperatures and the Russian winter offensive. Near Tula, Captain Straus and his men… In the battle for Saint-L6, some troops from the 29th Infantry Division became isolated. The ’Lost Battalion’ was surrounded by the enemy, low on… Elements of the German 7lst Infantry and 24th Panzer Divisions move forward to crush Resistance in the shattered buildings and workshops of the Nail… The 1st Marine Division was stocked with many long serving Marines. Many had experience in Central American dust ups, but this was different. As the… After establishing a beachhead on Bougainville Island, the Marines had to protect it from a counterattack. And that attack would be coming by way of… Taking out 'The Point' was the task given to Captain George Hunt and his company from the 1st Marines. They reduced the fortification with much… The Grossdeutschland Regiment has seen heavy fighting near Yelnya and is low on ammo. With mortar support, its units try to hold the line. The Russian… After several days of battle, the goose egg that was the American’s St. Vith perimeter began to crack. Early in the morning of 21 December, a mixed… As enemy forces closed in on Minsk, it was imperative for the Germans to keep the rail lines open. Not only for supplies but more importantly to… As Barbarossa unfolds, 2nd SS ‘Das Reich’ is at the tip of Guderian’s spear. They have crossed the Berezina and press on. Timoshenko now commands the… Prior to the landings on Guadalcanal, Marines hit the smaller islands of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo. The 1st Raider Battalion ran into stiffening… Russian troops overpower the German sentries standing watch and launch a surprise attack. When the alarm is sounded, the Germans awake to a swarm of… After breaking through the Siegfried Line, the 9th Armored Division raced into Germany. On the afternoon of March 7th, C Troop of the 89th… It had been a long war, but then again, any war is a long war. We were supposed to be home by Christmas, but Hitler had other ideas, and those other…
13th Guards Sacrifice
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501st Heavy
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A Bit North of Here
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A Deadly Race
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A German Sherman
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A Hard Bargain
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A Pair of Eights
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A Roof to Sleep Under
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Action at Potpot
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Alligator Creek
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Any Day the Ruhr Pocket
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Arawe Ambush
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As Night Approaches
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At Dawn’s Early Light
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Attacking Strass
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Big Boys
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Bloody Nose Ridge
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Bourbon for Bravery
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Brandenburgers
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Breaking Out
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Bring Up the Guns
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Cat and Mouse
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Chaos
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Chaos Reigns
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Chekov’s Bridge
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China Gal
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Clark Field
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Clear Them Out
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Cobra
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Cornered Cats
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Crossing the Driniumor
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Crossroads
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Cut Off
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D-Day Dawn
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Daredevil Tankers
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Dawn of the Dead
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Death of the 6th Army
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Desperation
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Die Falle
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Dom Butgenbach
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Drop Zone Charlie
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Dying For Thirst
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Edson’s Ridge
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Elcherath
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First Clash
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Fools Rush In
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Fox in the Henhouse
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Frozen
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Fubar
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Greif I
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Greif II
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Ground and Pound
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Heavy Hitters
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Hedgerow Clash
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Highway to Hell
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Hunting the Hunters
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In the Coconut Grove
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Into the Fog
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Irons in the Fire
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Joyeux Noel
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Knocking on the Door
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Last Battle, Last Stand
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Lausdell Crossroads
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Linking Up
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Lucky Ivan
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Nakagawa Strikes Back
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Night Raid
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No Hope But Glory
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No Man’s Land
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NUTS!
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Operation Luttich
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Over the Border
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Over the Rhine
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Partisan Payback
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Patton’s Ghosts
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Peiper’s Chariots
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Push Back
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Raiders
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Rampage
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Rattenkrieg
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Red Beach
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Retribution
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Ruckkampfer
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Shattered
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Shot For Shot
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Siberians
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Silent and Swift
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Sitting Ducks
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Slo Way Out
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Smash and Burn
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Stand at St. Vith
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Starvation Island
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Steak & Eggs
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Steiner’s Stand
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Sugarloaf Hill
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Suicide Creek
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Take That Town
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Taking the Town Square
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The Abbey
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The Beachhead
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The Beast of Argentan
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The Big Drop
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The Bigger They Come
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The Commisar Order
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The Gingerbread House
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The Guards
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The Hedgehog
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The Highway
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The Hound and the Hare
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The Last Banzai
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The Last Minute
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The Lost Boys
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The Nail Factory
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The Old Breed
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The Piva Trail
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The Point
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The Salient
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The Shell Begins to Crack
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The Trains Must Run
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The Wolf's Hook
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Tulagi First
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Wake Up Call
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We Can Try This
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Won’t They Ever Give Up Spring
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