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Scenario#: 92     Date: 5/23/1940     Location: Boulogne, France

An epic of disastrous proportions was looming for the BEF as the panzers neared the French Channel ports. If they fell, the BEF would be bereft of supplies – and evacuation. To Boulogne was shipped the 20th Guards Brigade. During the night of May…

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Scenario#: 96     Date: 5/25/1940     Location: Calais, France

Calais, and all the troops in it, was doomed to fall – it was only a question of time. The 2nd KRR was given the task of holding the three bridges over the Marck Canal. It had a handful of light tanks and scout cars for support. …

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Scenario#: 142     Date: 4/24/1940     Location: Dombaas, Norway

With the sudden Allied landings at Namsos and Andalsnes, the strategic and political importance of Trondheim was brought into sharp focus. Quickly implementing alternative plans, von Falkenhorst ordered the 196th Infantry Division to clear several…

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Scenario#: 91     Date: 5/21/1940     Location: Beaurains, France

Quite unexpectedly, the British launched a major counterattack from Arras against the extended spearheads of Rommel’s breakthrough. The Germans were able to stop the foot soldiers but the British armor pushed on unsupported – deep into the German…

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Scenario#: 242     Date: 5/29/1940     Location: Villers-sur-Mareuil, France

De Gaulle’s 4th Armored Division, called upon to eliminate the German bridgehead across the Somme at Abbeville, attacked on the 28th and succeeded in pushing the Germans back some four kilometers before halting for the night. The morale of the…

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Scenario#: 234     Date: 5/15/1940     Location: Stonne, France

The Grossdeutschland Regiment, after some hard fighting and a harder march north, had finally taken the village of Stonne, the pivot of the German flank movement from Sedan. Exhausted, the German infantry were now the target for one of the few…

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Scenario#: 244     Date: 6/5/1940     Location: Condé-Folie, France

Northern France had fallen and General Weygand was desperately attempting to form a long along the Somme. Lacking sufficient forces for a continuous front, he decided on a series of combined-arms hedgehogs which he hoped could thwart the German…

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Scenario#: 141     Date: 4/22/1940     Location: Trondheim, Norway

After the initial landings at Oslo, the Germans began to move northward, through the valley of the Gudbrandsdalen, towards Trondheim. The Norwegians and British forces there attempted numerous blocking actions which were largely unsuccessful. One…

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Scenario#: DASL19     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Jandrain, Belgium

One of the Western Allies’ plans in the event of a German attack, Plan “D” – based upon the belief that the Germans would push through the lowlands of Belgium as they had in the previous war – called for the BEF and various French divisions to rush…

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Scenario#: 231     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Aessan, France

The blitzkrieg in the West had begun. German forces were pouring into France at breakneck speeds. Bridges on the Moselle had been captured undamaged and the advance elements of the 34th infantry Division started to cross as soon as the obstacles…

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Scenario#: 235     Date: 5/15/1940     Location: Bouvellemont, France

By dusk on the 14th, the Germans had established three bridgeheads across the Meuse River. The 15th brought the next stage: the breaking of the last major elements which stood between them and the great plains of France. One point of the last line of…

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Scenario#: 236     Date: 5/17/1940     Location: On the Meuse, France

In the confusion following the 7th Panzer Division’s breakout, isolated French units still held crossings across the Meuse while the German infantry struggled to catch up. Now elements of XIV Panzergrenadier Korps, on the basis of Fieseler Storch…

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Scenario#: 237     Date: 5/27/1940     Location: Orneset, Norway

Allies re-took Narvik only to find it largely abandoned by the Germans. The beachhead was still covered by crews from destroyed German naval destroyers. After an intense naval bombardment, these Germans saw French Foreign Legion troops bearing down…

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Scenario#: 44     Date: 4/9/1940     Location: Hamar-Elverum Road, Norway

During the early stages of the German invasion of Norway, two companies of paratroopers that had landed at Fornebu Airport three hours earlier than planned, loaded on buses with hopes of raiding the Norwegian army headquarters at Hamar and capture…

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Scenario#: 46     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Briedgen, Belgium

In a furious assault in the villages of Veldwezelt and Briedgen, 114 German fallschirmjagers capture two bridges across the Albert Canal and destroyed the detonator wiring. Still under desultory fire, engineers removed the explosives. Lt. Altman,…

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Scenario#: 48     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Witry, Belgium

400 men of Infantry Regiment “Deutschland” landed by light plane to seize crossroads near the villages of Nives and Witry deep in the Ardennes. Lt.-Col. Garski’s command, landing in fields east of his target, was informed of the presence of Belgian…

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Scenario#: 49     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Gennap, Holland

It was vital for the German 6th and 18th Armies to get across the River Maas and the Dutch defensive line just beyond it swiftly. The Dutch defensive line – the so-called “Peel Line” – was composed of MG bunkers and artillery casemates fronted by an…

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Scenario#: 238     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Ankenes, Norway

By the end of May 1940, the catastrophic unfolding of the battle for France caused the Allies to evacuate Norway. Nevertheless, it was decided to take Narvik in order to close the campaign on a victory and lessen the earlier humiliations. On the…

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Scenario#: 240     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Orneset, Norway

On 24 May, faced with the deteriorating situation in France, the Allies decided to evacuate Norway. However, before the evacuation, the Anglo-French commanders wanted to retake Narvik. For that operation, the main attack would come from the north and…

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Scenario#: 143     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Grebbe Hill, Holland

The Grebbe Line was the principal defensive position into Fortress Holland from the east. Following a preparatory bombardment, the outpost line was attacked at sunrise on 11 May and the defenders slowly fell back to the trenches on the hill. The…

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Scenario#: 246     Date: 9/25/1940     Location: Na Cham Border Post, French Indochina

In order to interdict the Chinese supply lines, the Japanese Canton Army wished to take control of French Indochina, which had been left isolated and without direction by the defeat of France in June of 1940. Japanese troops attacked border posts…

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Scenario#: 245     Date: 9/24/1940     Location: Mai Pha, French Indochina

The Japanese had invaded Tonkin and using available dense terrain undertook a vast maneuver of encirclement on either side of the fortified city of Lansgson, threatening to isolate it by cutting Colonial Road 1. The 11th Company, 3rd Battalion of the…

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Scenario#: 232     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Chéhéry, France

On the morning of the 14th, a French counterattack was ordered against the breach at Sedan in an effort to contain General Guderian's bridgehead on the river Meuse. The attack was to be comprised of two tank battalions, each supported by an infantry…

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Scenario#: DASL20     Date: 5/20/1940     Location: Albert, France

The Battle for France was going badly for the Allies as the armor of von Kleist, Rommel and Guderian forged its way through Allied positions toward the Channel ports. The German objective was to drive a wedge through the center of the defenders'…

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Scenario#: 241     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Taraldsvikfjell, Norway

Despite an incredible number of command mistakes, a series of flanking attacks had put the Allies in position to cut off and destroy the isolated Germans who had captured Narvik. The defending German force was a mixed batch of excellent Gebirgsjager…

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Scenario#: 239     Date: 5/28/1940     Location: Taraldsvikfjell, Norway

With the disastrous situation around Dunkerque entering its final stages, the Allied High Command decided that the operation around Narvik would have to be halted, though the city itself was taken in order to cover the evacuation and to ensure…

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Scenario#: 243     Date: 6/2/1940     Location: Spyckar, France

As the last days and hours of the Dunkirk defense passed and the perimeter shrank to within four miles of the city, the British turned their remaining positions over to the French forces. On the western side of the perimeter the Grossdeutschland…

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Scenario#: 233     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Onhaye, Belgium

In the early hours of May 13, Rommel pushed units of his Panzer-Division 7 across the Meuse River in the vicinity of Dinant, where they clung to a shaky foothold. While infantry were able to cross on boats, Rommel's tanks would have to cross on a…

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Scenario#: 75     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Elvegardsmoen, Norway

In the arctic twilight, the 13th Demi-Brigade of the French Foreign Legion and five Hotchkiss tanks were successfully put ashore by British landing craft northeast of Narvik. One legion battalion and two tanks were sent to retake the supply center of…

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Scenario#: 76     Date: 5/18/1940     Location: Le Catelet, France

The French command reacted slowly to Rommel’s breakthrough at Avesnes. Taking advantage of the sluggish French reaction, the Germans refueled and rearmed their Panzers and on May 18th they advanced toward Le Catelet. Colonel Veron, given the task of…

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Scenario#: 77     Date: 6/5/1940     Location: Hangest, France

Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division had established a small bridgehead across the Somme, but the construction of a pontoon bridge was prevented by interdicting fire from the nearby town of Hangest. Self-propelled howitzers were brought forward to bombard…

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Scenario#: 78     Date: 6/20/1940     Location: Cornimont, France

In the area of the French 8th Army in the Vosges mountains, scattered defending forces were committed piecemeal in an effort to slow down the swift German advances. In Cornimont, the 158th Engineer Battalion received orders to defend the town. A…

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Scenario#: 79     Date: 6/3/1940     Location: Les Sept-Planètes, France

The defense of the bridges along the stretch of the Bergues canal south of Dunkirk was entrusted to the heavy weapons company of the French 1st Battalion, 224th Infantry Regiment, supported by miscellaneous troops including several mobile 155mm…

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Scenario#: 82     Date: 6/20/1940     Location: Saumur, France

Angered and dismayed by a call on June 17th for an armistice, the officers and cadets of the Cavalry School had vowed to fight for their own honor and that of France. Southeast of Saumur, lay the Aunis Farm, a French command post and staging area.…

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Scenario#: DN01     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Chabrehez, Belgium

As the leading elements of Panzer-Division 7 moved through the valley east of Chabrehea at 1800 on 10 May, they encountered two platoons of Belgian Chasseurs d'Ardennais dug in on the slopes in front of the town. The Germans hastily deployed the…

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Scenario#: DN02     Date: 5/12/1940     Location: Yvoir, Belgium

As the German blitzkrieg moved through the Ardennes, the Belgian Chasseurs d'Arrdgennais fought a series of delaying actions. They were pressured from every side, until they finally reached the Meuse. There they were forced to move northward to…

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Scenario#: DN03     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

After fighting its way through the Ardennes, Panzer-Division 7 found itself on the banks of the Meuse. The towering cliffs provided a majestic and frightening back drop for the job of crossing the river. The questions on every trooper's mind were:…

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Scenario#: DN04     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Chateau de Meez, Belgium

After the initial crossings of the Meuse, Panzer-Division 7 began to expand the bridgehead west of the river. Darkness approached, and Rommel ordered a company to begin scaling the cliffs and move through the woods surrounding the Chateau de Meez.…

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Scenario#: DN05     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Ferme de Meez, Belgium

As more and more Germans crossed the river near Bouvignes, they pushed hard against the scattered French troops who were falling back into the northern reentrant -- the gap between the cliffs. Fighting escalated as the gap narrowed, and soon the…

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Scenario#: DN06     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

As evening fell, the German crossing began to accelerate. Rommel's direction was the added impetus needed to ensure success. The immediate task was to clear the French from atop the cliffs overlooking the river, where they had artillery spotters…

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Scenario#: DN07     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Saint-Medard, Belgium

As night fell at Dinant, Panzer-Division 7 had crossed the river against stiff French resistance. But their bridgehead was not yet secure. The French defenders had fallen back from the cliffs and were reorganizing in the farms and villages behind the…

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Scenario#: DN08     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

Having lost contact with the forces in and around Dinant, the French Command ordered 1ère DLC to ascertain where and in what strength the Germans were across the Meuse. A scratch force was hastily thrown together to assess the situation, and a…

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Scenario#: DN09     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium

After securing the crossing area, Rommel ordered his reconnaissance units to begin moving along N936 toward Onhaye. As the light armor and cycles moved out in the darkness, they ran into a series of French positions along the road.

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Scenario#: DN10     Date: 5/14/1940     Location: Onhaye, Belgium

While overseeing the construction of a pontoon bridge, as well as the continued ferrying of troops across the Meuse, Rommel learned of a message received at 4.Armee headquarters reading "Bismarck encircled at Onhaye." All further communication was…

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Scenario#: 87     Date: 4/9/1940     Location: Haderslev, Denmark

Strong German motorized forces crossed the Danish border early in the morning of April 9th. Several German armored cars were damaged or destroyed, and the Germans learned to fear the 20mm guns mounted on the Nimbus motorcycles poised for ambush at…

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Scenario#: 88     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Mont-Le-Ban, Belgium

Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division on a bypass bumped into units protecting the Belgian southern flank. This lightly-held part of the Belgian defense was occupied by units of the 10th Motorcycle Company, which had been scattered into three different…

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Scenario#: 89     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Wulmerson, Belgium

On May 12th, the 7th Squadron of the 4th Lanciers and the 5th of the 3rd were hurriedly placed along the railway Tirlemont-Liege to fill the gap between the Belgian 2nd Cavalry and the French 12th Cuirassiers, west of Goosoncourt airfield. On the…

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Scenario#: 90     Date: 11/17/1940     Location: Koritsa, Greece

The Italian Army erupted across the Greek border in an attempt to add Greece to the New Roman Empire and show Hitler that Italy, too, could launch a blitzkrieg attack. Mussolini’s tactically-bankrupt command had not anticipated the tenacity of the…

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Scenario#: 164     Date: 1/11/1940     Location: Tormua, Finland

Finnish Group Wolf was directed to attack those remnants of the 163rd Ukrainian Division that had managed to escape from the Soumussalmi pocket. The Soviets were dug in at Juntusanta, 5 kilometers south of Tormua. All three battalions of Wolf would…

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Scenario#: 165     Date: 2/26/1940     Location: Honkaniemi, Finland

When the weary Finnish troops took up positions in the Mannerheim Line, with the Soviets right on their heels, the defense ran into trouble right away. After a week of battle, the Soviets managed to breach the line in several places, including at the…

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