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Scenario#: NOSB02     Date: 09/01/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

For months the Germans had pushed the Soviets across the steppes. The Soviet's victories of the previous winter were but a bad dream, long forgotten. German Panzers ruled the plains, Bf-109s ruled the sky, and all was right with the …

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Scenario#: BOH11     Date: 06/08/1944     Location: St. Come Du Mont, France

Carentan was the key to preventing a linkup between American forces from Utah and Omaha Beach. Taking Carentan, however, meant that St. Come du Mont and the road leading southfrom the causeway to the town would have to be won. …

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Scenario#: SB10     Date: 06/07/1944     Location: Le Bas De Ranville, France

The 12th battalion had landed earlier in the morning and established defensive positions around the strategically important town Ranville. Here, the countryside was more open, and the 5th Para Brigade allocated their small supply of anti-tank guns…

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Scenario#: DD02     Date: 05/10/1940     Location: Dordrecht, Holland

As the Blitzkrieg in Holland began, the Germans had to capture the traffic bridge in Dordrecht intact in order to allow the flow of forces from the border to reach Rotterdam and The Hague. A platoon from the 3rd Company, …

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Scenario#: AP10     Date: 03/23/1945     Location: Wesel, Germany

As a prelude to Operation Varsity, British and Canadian commandos were tasked with launching an amphibious assault across the Rhine to take the town of Wesel. As the commandos were ferried across, the RAF and attached artillery units pounded the …

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Scenario#: LOF11     Date: 11/08/1942     Location: Algiers, Algeria

Torch would be the first test of the American Army in the European Theater. Unfortunately, the initial test would come against the American's soon to be allies, the French. The …

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Scenario#: HB03     Date: 06/05/1940     Location: Peronne, France

After the defeat in the Belgian plains and the reduction of the pocket of Dunkirk, the German Army launched Fall Rot. the second stage of the 1940 Western Campaign. On the 360 km long front of the Somme and Aisne …

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Scenario#: BOH02     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Normandy, France

Thousands of paratroopers dropped on Normandy during the night of June 6, 1944. To avoid flak, most of the planes flew too low and too fast to place their "sticks” in their assigned dropzones. Paratroogers were scattered between the beaches …

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Scenario#: ROH05     Date: 06/11/1982     Location: Mt. Longdon, East Falkland

The Paras of 3rd Battalion were assigned the task of clearing Mt. Longdon, northwest of Stanley. As part of that attack, 4th and 5th Platoons of B Company, 3rd Para, conducted a flanking move to clear the prepared positions along …

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Scenario#: AP09     Date: 02/17/1945     Location: Breslau, Poland

Hitler ordered 80,000 German soldiers to stand their ground in the strategically vital, yet regally beautiful, city of Breslau. As Russian divisions encircled the ancient town, the Germans dug in. On February 16th, the Russians attacked the southern…

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Scenario#: DJ01     Date: 07/09/1943     Location: Ponyri, Russia

On the north side of the Kursk salient, General Model's Ninth Army pushed south. A key objective was the town of Ponyri, and there the fighting raged. The city was contested so fiercely that veterans named it the Stalingrad of …

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Scenario#: DD07     Date: 05/24/1940     Location: E Of Calais, France

The Allies had collapsed into a defensive pocket around the Channel ports. In order for 360,000 rations for the BEF to be brought from Calais to Dunkirk, the road between the two cities had to be reconnoitered and secured. An …

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Scenario#: BP10     Date: 07/15/1944     Location: Haut-vent, France

Over a month had passed since D-Day and there had not been a breakout from Normandy and its bocage-ridden fields. A key town in attempting a break out was St. Lo. Although military intelligence failed in identifying the defensive qualities …

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Scenario#: NBO03     Date: 12/19/1944     Location: Noville, Belgium

Suddenly the mist lifted, as if drawn aside by an invisible hand, and Noville's defenders saw that they were surrounded by Panthers, Tigers, Panzer IVs and groups of advancing German infantry. But what could well have been a disastrous defeat …

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Scenario#: SB03     Date: 09/20/1944     Location: Veghel, Holland

Operation Market Garden; Montgomery's plan to shorten the war by creating an “air bridge" of allied troops to the city of Arnhem, was floundering. The 101st Airborne Division had successfully seized its assigned bridges, but now had to defend them …

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Scenario#: BM2     Date: 10/06/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

For many many of us, the first time we played a squad level wargame, it was a scenario about the Russian Guards fighting in the hell of Stalingrad. For many many of us, this scenario was the hook. It was …

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Scenario#: DD06     Date: 05/22/1940     Location: Outrea, France

The 2nd Panzer Division had the port of Boulogne as its final objective. Resistance had been stubborn on the southern approaches. Aerial reconnaissance revealed that the low road by the village of Outrea would be the most advantageous route into …

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Scenario#: AP02     Date: 04/19/1943     Location: Warsaw, Poland

Members of various resistance groups had been resisting Nazi efforts to clear the ghetto of its interred inhabitants since January of 1943. In April, SS commander Jurgen Stroop launched a full scale assault on the starving tenants. Under the…

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Scenario#: BP11     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: Stoumont, Belgium

The Americans were slowly encirc/ing and cutting off supply to Kampfgruppe Peiper, an elite SS taskforce of the 1st SS Panzer Abteilung that had deeply penetrated the northern flank of the Bulge. One American objective was to block a Kampfgruppe …

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Scenario#: HB15     Date: 05/22/1940     Location: Mont St Eloi, France

As the German Panzers raced toward the sea. the capacity for the French to re-establish a continuous front appeared impossible. The remnants of the Allied forces were reduced to counterattacking the base of the German bulge. West of Arras, which …

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Scenario#: LOF12     Date: 06/09/1969     Location: An Hoa Basin, South Vietnam

While moving to assist Alpha and Battalion HQ near An Bang, Charlie Company received word that Bravo Company had ran into an ambush. Michael Mauger's 2nd Platoon of Charlie moved out while Bravo prepared to clear the NVA from the …

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Scenario#: NOSB06     Date: 11/22/1942     Location: Kalach, Russia

The Final objective for Russia's Operation Uranus was to seal off any escape for the embattled 6th Army by taking the bridge over the Don River at Kalach. Using a handful of captured tanks, Lieutenant-Colonel Filippov drove right through cheering …

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Scenario#: HB14     Date: 05/12/1940     Location: Thisne, Belgium

Hannut, Belgium, saw WWII's first tank battle. On the second day of the battle, the French began to retreat into positions flanking the 4th Panzer Division. Though the Germans wanted to press their advance, they didn't want to risk becoming …

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Scenario#: NOSB11     Date: 02/16/1944     Location: Lysyanka, Russia

Once again, the Soviet armies had encircled German forces on the tenuous and dynamic Ost Front. The encircled this time were six German Divisions that had been holding defensive positions along the Dnepr River in the Korsun Pocket. German High …

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Scenario#: BP06     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: La Fière, France

Counterattacking from the west, a German armored column, including refitted captured French tanks, managed to cross Cauquigny after losing a few vehicles and men to Lieutenant Levy's patrol. It advanced on the causeway toward the bridge over the…

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Scenario#: DD10     Date: 05/27/1940     Location: La Bassée, France

German infantry of the 7th Panzer division had infiltrated the La Bassee Canal defense line and had established a small bridgehead. As German engineers were building a pontoon bridge over the canal for reinforcements, a combined Allied infantry-armor…

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Scenario#: BOH03     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Sw Of Neuville, France

Lieutenant John Dolan was the commanding officer of Able Company of the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. His company conducted a textbook drop on the night of June 6, collecting all but two of the 136 men assigned. Able …

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Scenario#: BOH05     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Mézières, France

The XYZ complex Was a group of buildings that housed a German artillery battalion. Clearing the buildings had originally been assigned to a platoon from A Company, 502nd PIR, but the company scattered well north of their objective. Hence, the …

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Scenario#: SB06     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Ouistreham, France

One of the objectives on D-Day for the British 1st Special Service Brigade was to clear the gun emplacements outside the seaside resort of Ouistreham. Captain Kieffer, in charge of the contingent of Free-French Commandos, asked permission to lead the…

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Scenario#: DJ06     Date: 07/12/1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

Just after 1:00 PM. on July 12th, the German 1st SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH was attacked from the east by a Soviet mixed infantry/tank force from the 29th Tank Corps, yet another attempt to halt the Nazi advance to Prokhorovka. …

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Scenario#: SB11     Date: 09/17/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

Unlike the confused response to the Normandy landings, some German commanders quickly and correctly appraised the massive airdrop outside of Arnhem and took immediate action. Captain Sepp Krafft, an instructor at the Waffen SS NCO School, did just…

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Scenario#: LOF14     Date: 08/28/1940     Location: Les Mesnil-sur-oger, France

“To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," said Claude Terrail, owner of the famous Parisian restaurant La Tour d'Argent. Under orders from Field Marshal Hermann Góring, a large quantity of the famed 1928 …

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Scenario#: HB13     Date: 06/18/1940     Location: Heming, France

On the day General DeGaulle issued his call from London, one day after Pétain called for ceasefire and Armistice, the French Army fought one last battle. The men who were charged with defending the Maginot Line now had to defend …

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Scenario#: LOF10     Date: 11/09/1942     Location: Sw Of Port Lyautey, Morroco

The objective of Operation Goa/post, part of the Western Task Force of Operation Torch, was to capture the coastal town of Mehdia, secure the Sebou River and, most importantly, take control of the airfield at Port Lyautey. The …

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Scenario#: NBO04     Date: 12/19/1944     Location: Noville, Belgium

All through the night the Pares held against probing attacks of ever-mounting intensity. It was a nightmare of violent firefights, clanking tank tracks, and confusion, but the Pares gave as …

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Scenario#: AP08     Date: 02/09/1945     Location: Kuestrin, Poland

Marshall Zhukov's drive to Berlin had been very successful. By the end of January Russian forces were only 60 miles from the Nazi capitol. Units of the 1St Belorussian Front had bypassed German resistance within the fortress city of Kuestrin, …

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Scenario#: DD14     Date: 06/11/1940     Location: St. Pierre-le-viger, France

The British 51st Highland Division was being squeezed into a small pocket around the town of Dieppe by Erwin Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division. Rommel was doing his best to capture the division before it could escape across the …

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Scenario#: FH17     Date: 08/18/1965     Location: Van Tuong Peninsula, South Vietnam

In the first major clash of the Vietnam War, three battalions of Marines under Colonel Oscar Peatross fought the 1 Viet Cong Regiment under Nguyen Dinh Trong southeast of the new Marine Base at Chu Lai. Hotel Company, 2 Battalion, …

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Scenario#: DD03     Date: 05/11/1940     Location: W Of Wageningen, Holland

On the morning of May 11th German stormtroopers of the SS Standarte der Fuhrer attacked central Holland. The Grebheline was an outer Dutch defensive position extending from the Ijsselmeer, an artificial lake in the north, south to the rehbeberg, …

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Scenario#: SB09     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Benouville, France

After months of rehearsals, D Company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (familiarly referred to as the "Ox and Bucks") under Major John Howard, lifted off in towed Horsa gliders during the later hours of June the 5th, headed …

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Scenario#: NOSB05     Date: 10/01/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On the 26th of September, 1942, Y.F. Pavlov and three other Soviet Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division, searched and secured a large apartment house on the edge of the 9 January Square known as the House of Soviets …

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Scenario#: HB01     Date: 01/01/1940     Location: Forbach, France

During the period preceding the German offensive both the French and the Germans kept their positions along the border. France had invaded the Saar "country but retreated after the Polish capitulation. War was then an affair of recon patrols, brutal…

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Scenario#: ROH07     Date: 05/28/1982     Location: North Of Darwin Hill, East Falkland

The military value of the East Falkland town of Goose Green was dubious at best. British politicians, however, wanted to see some progress, any progress, in the recapture of the Falklands. So, the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment was …

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Scenario#: HB09     Date: 05/10/1940     Location: Martelange, Belgium

In the morning, the 1st Panzer Division crossed Luxembourg, and its advanced guards were ready to enter Belgium as soon as possible. On the border, in Martelange, the Chasseurs Ardennais were ready to fight, and hosted their defenses. Bridges had …

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Scenario#: FH07     Date: 01/15/1968     Location: Lang Vei Special Forces Camp, Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam

In late January, 1968, survivors of the 33rd Laotian Battalion streamed into the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei; their camp had been overrun by the North Vietnamese. A fight with the NVA wasn’t unusual, what was unusual was …

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Scenario#: NOSB09     Date: 07/12/1943     Location: Prochorovka, Russia

Right after 5 a.m., on July 12th, hundreds of Soviet tanks and assault guns rolled out of Prochorovka and slammed into the German SS Leibstandarte Division, which had stalled just west of the town. Streams of T-34 and T-70 tanks, …

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Scenario#: BP03     Date: 01/15/1945     Location: Noville, Belgium

Easy Company had been put in reserve after taking the town of Foy: the beginning of the Allies counteroffensive in the Ardennes. Now, they were tasked with taking the hotly contested town of Noville. On the 14th of January they …

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Scenario#: NOSB03     Date: 10/30/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The 14th Panzer Division had been given the task of clearing the southern area of the city known as the Bread Factory and getting to the Volga River. Suffering horrendous casualties, the Germans took the Bread Factory and were just …

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Scenario#: BOH01     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: St.germain De Varreville, France

Captain Frank L. Lillyman led his Pathfinders out the door of their C-47 troop transports and into the night sky over Normandy. At 0015 hrs. 6 June 1944, when his boots struck the dew soaked grass, Lillyman became the …

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Scenario#: DH01     Date: 11/14/1993     Location: Mogadishu, Somalia

Aidid refused to see reason. Despite a warning from special ambassador Robert Oakley, Aidid wouldn't release Mike Durant, the captured pilot of Super Six Four, so the Delta Boys went in and got Durant out, rescuing him from the shanty …

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