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One Smart Bastard Scenario#: WO40 Date: 02/28/1945 Location: Iwo Jima, Pacific Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, one of the few realists among high-ranking Japanese Officers had adopted a radical defensive policy. Forgoing the water's edge tactics and the Banzai attacks of previous battles, he chose an inland defensive policy.… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2022
Heroes' Day Scenario#: WO35 Date: 10/10/1945 Location: Surabaya, Indonesia The Japanese surrender in August 1945 created a sudden power vacuum in the largely ignored Dutch East Indies. The Dutch were in no position to reclaim administrative duties over such a large area, so the British were tasked with restoring civil… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2020
Sealing Their Fate Scenario#: WO20 Date: 2/15/1945 Location: Chojnice, Poland As the Soviet offensive to secure the right flank of the drive on Berlin, a 50 kilometer gap still existed between two of the German divisions defending Pomerania. The Soviet 70th Army, which included the 1st Guards Tank Corps and the 96th Rifle… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2016
For Pride's Sake Scenario#: WO14 Date: 1/16/1945 Location: Santa Maria, Luzon General Yamashita's plans for the defense of northern Luzon included fighting withdrawals and a gradual retreat to the mountains and the Cagayan valley. Needing to move the 2nd Tank Division -- his main mobile reserve -- and pestered by subordinate… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2014
Across the Issel Scenario#: WO11 Date: 3/26/1945 Location: Loikum, Germany Early on the second day of Operation PLUNDER, units of 15th (Scottish) Division crossed the unfinished Autobahn to their front. Resistance from scattered German units was light, so a recon section of two armored cars was sent to scout the Royal Scots… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2013
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Scenario#: W14 Date: 1945-03-25 Location: Oppenheim, Germany Following the Rhine crossing at Oppenheim by the American Third Army, confused fighting developed between Dannstadt and the Main River as retreating and defending German units mixed with the American armored spearheads. Most opposition was quickly… Tank Leader — Western Front
Assault on Salines Scenario#: W12 Date: 1945-01-30 Location: Salines, Germany After the failed Ardennes Offensive. Understrength German ínfantry divisions were left holding much of the line. Crucial towns containing road and rail junctions were held at all costs to delay … Tank Leader — Western Front
Clearing Action in the Ruhr Scenario#: W10 Date: 1945-04-05 Location: Ruhr, Germany Following the Rhine crossings in the U.S. First Army and Third Army sectors, German resistance in the Ruhr completely disintegraled. American armored divisions sprinted through weak forces, establishíng a bridgehead as deep as 60 miles in only seven… Tank Leader — Western Front
Meat Grinder Scenario#: W08 Date: 1945-02-25 Location: Wadgassen, Germany The U.S. Third Army pressed attacks across the Saar river in the late winter of 1945. Heavily fortified German positions made these assaults costly. Despite control of the air and overwhelming artillery support, ínfantry still had to make the… Tank Leader — Western Front
Foggy Bottom Scenario#: W04 Date: 1945-04-25 Location: Harz, Germany The U.S. 1st Army under Hodges encountered little resistance as it advanced on the Mulde river. Only in the Harz mountains was serious opposition encountered. Wenck's ínfamous 11th Army launched numerous small attacks against the encircling… Tank Leader — Western Front
Operation Lumberjack Scenario#: W02 Date: 1945-03-10 Location: Eifel, Germany The U.S. Third Army under George S. Patton launched operation LUMBERJACK as Phase II of the Allied advance to the Rhine. Third Army's objective was Coblenz. Patton advanced through the Moselle river valley, south of The Eiffel. Units of the … Tank Leader — Western Front
Khaki Storm Rising Scenario#: W01 Date: 1945-03-16 Location: Pfaffenheck, Germany British armored units fanned across the North German plain following the crossing of the Rhine in March. Resistance, initially stiff, weakened as the Germans ran low on fuel and ammunition. The 4th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, was advancing on the… Tank Leader — Western Front
Night Assault Scenario#: W98 Date: 26-Mar-45 Location: Kirchhellen, Germany After dispersing an attack by the Wehrmacht 116th Panzer Division, the American infantrymen of 120th Regiment were able to advance to positions near Kirchhellen Airfield. The Gls watched helplessly as the airfield's powerful flak guns, mounted high… Squad Leader — Wargamers Pack 2
The Breaking Wave Scenario#: W97 Date: 19-Dec-44 Location: Dom Butengenbach, Belgium The German efforts to press their Wacht am Rhein offensive were falling behind schedule. After rapid deliberation German General Staff decided that the best way to speed the assault was to increase the maneuver area for the attacking elements. They … Squad Leader — Wargamers Pack 2
Vistula River Line Scenario#: 17 Date: '01/13/45 Location: Vistula River, Poland With the start of the Russian offensive on January 12. 1945, breakthroughs were achieved all along the vistula River with the aid of massive artillery barrages. Intact defending units, as in all overwhelming ofiensives, often found themselves in… Panzer (AH/MMP) — Wargamer's Guide to PanzerBlitz
Won’t They Ever Give Up Spring Scenario#: WS2 Date: Spring, 1945 Location: Rhine River, Germany 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 ideas damn near worked. Driving us almost to the … Old School Tactical — Volume 2 Western Front
Over the Rhine Scenario#: W15 Date: March 10, 1945 Location: Remagen, Germany 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 they could across the Rhine. The Germans scrambled to mount a counter attack. They … Old School Tactical — Volume 2 Western Front
Heavy Hitters Scenario#: W11 Date: March 21, 1945 Location: Ruhr, Germany 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 infantry of the 9th move forward to clear a village and secure the roads. … Old School Tactical — Volume 2 Western Front
Hunting the Hunters Scenario#: W06 Date: April 2, 1945 Location: Ruhr, Germany 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 waiting to ambush, concealed in their camouflage. The war was almost over for the Americans, … Old School Tactical — Volume 2 Western Front
Reichswald & Nutterden Scenario#: 16304 Date: 2/8/1945 Location: Nutterden, Germany Operation Veritable was intended to eliminate all German forces west of the Rhine river and set the stage for Allied forces to eventually cross that great barrier. However, General Schlemm, the German commander of the First Parachute Army defending… Memoir '44 — VE-Day
Hatten & Rittershoffen Scenario#: 16303 Date: 1/16/1945 Location: Rittershoffen, Germany Unternehmen Nordwind (Northwind), the drive to Strasbourg, was the last major German offensive on the Western Front. Launched on January 1, 1945, it was initially successful as the Axis forces broke through the thinly stretched U.S. 7th Army line and… Memoir '44 — VE-Day
Hitdorf Scenario#: 16300 Date: 4/6/1945 Location: Hitdorf, Germany On 6 April 1945, the first wave of the 82nd Airborne Division crossed the Rhine in boats and immediately made contact with the enemy. Under heavy fire and faced with a minefield, the troopers fought toward their assigned objectives and … Memoir '44 — VE-Day
Seelow Heights Scenario#: 16295 Date: 4/16/1945 Location: Seelow Heights, Germany On 16 April, the battle of Berlin started with a massive Soviet artillery barrage against General Theodor Busse’s 9th German Army, which numbered around 200,000 men and equipment. Zhukov’s Red Army, on the other hand, was a juggernaut of over … Memoir '44 — VE-Day
Castle Itter Scenario#: N13 Date: 1945/05/05 Location: Itter, Austria The Battle for Castle Itter was fought near the Austrian village of Itter on 5 May 1945, in the last days of the War in Europe. US soldiers joined forces with Wehrmacht infantrymen, an SS officer, an Austrian Resistance fighter, … Undaunted — Undaunted: Normandy
Raid On Hammelburg Scenario#: 31-6 Date: March 26-28, 1945 Location: Hammelburg, Germany Elements of 37th Tank Battalion and the 10th Armored lnfanry are sent 60 miles behind enemy lines to rescue an expected 300 Allied officers held as prisoners of war. Panzer (AH/MMP) — The General #31.6
Auld Lang Syne Scenario#: V Date: 1/1/1945 Location: Gerimont, France In the Ardennes sector, the U.S. 87th Division was given the assignment of taking Gerimont. The opening of the assault went well but while pausing to regroup in the outskirts of the town, the Americans were hit by a strong local counterattack. The… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.3
Forth Bridge Scenario#: G37 Date: 4/11/1945 Location: Fuhrberg, Germany After three days of rest and refit, the Churchills of the Scots Guards arrived from Munster and linked up with the troops of the 227th Infantry Brigade's Gordon Highlanders, with orders to advance on Celle. The Germans had taken advantage of the… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.3
The Liberators Scenario#: G34 Date: 4/2/1945 Location: Wiener Neustadt, Austria Following the collapse of Hitler's Awakening of Spring, on March 16th, Marshall Tolbuhkin's 3rd Ukrainian Front went over to the attack. The 6th Guards Tank Army was placed at his disposal to deal with the stiff resistance. On April 2nd, having… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.1
The Awakening of Spring Scenario#: G33 Date: 3/14/1945 Location: Lake Balaton, Hungary SPRING With the Soviet Army firmly established on the Oder River and threatening Berlin, Hitler was still obsessed with taking the offensive elsewhere. Hitler decided to launch an attack to create a buffer zone between the Soviet forces near the Danube… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #31.1
GOYA Scenario#: G18 Date: 1/7/1945 Location: Rochelinval, Belgium The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion was a veteran airborne unit, whose distinctive patch was emblazoned with the acronym “GOYA” (for “Get Off Your Ass”). From the 21st of December through the 6th of January, the men of the battalion weathered “no… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #29.2
The Whirlwind Scenario#: S Date: 4/18/1945 Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany On the night of 17th of April, elements of a recon troop of the American 26th Infantry Division occupied a tiny village on the outskirts of Aschaffenburg without opposition. Based on civilian reports of the presence by the enemy, the staff of the… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #28.4
Battle Of Kustrin Scenario#: 28-3.6 Date: '22/3/45 Location: Kustrin, Russia A Russian Guards Tank Corps from the 5th Shock Army launches an attack along the Kustrin-Berlin Highway. ln their path, a hastlly assembled kampfgruppe of no name or number prepares to make a last stand. Panzer (AH/MMP) — The General #28.3
A View from the Top Scenario#: G13 Date: 2/23/1945 Location: Bologna, Italy It was vital that “Riva Ridge”, a series of four peaks dominating Route 64 between Vergati and the city of Bologna, be cleared. Following successes on Mount Belvedere and Mount Gorgolesco, taken by coup-de-main on the 18th and 19th, the U.S. 10th… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #27.5
The St. Goar Assault Scenario#: O Date: 3/24/1945 Location: Saint Goar, Germany Germany’s army was beaten. The Rhine River had been crossed at Remagen and elsewhere. As more and more of the Allied forces closed in on the Rhine, there was a growing tendency to simply take it “on the run” rather than shift to an existing… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #26.1
The Forgotten Front Scenario#: G03 Date: 2/9/1945 Location: Hennebont, France The 66th Infantry Division was typical of many raised from draftees in preparation for the invasion of Europe. Yet when the “Panthermen” arrived, they found themselves relegated to a relative backwater – containing the isolated German pockets around… Advanced Squad Leader — The General #23.6
Aachen's Pall Scenario#: P Date: 25-Oct-44 Location: Aachen, Germany The American hand had closed about Aachen. The city fell slowly. Street by street, then house by house the Gls squeezed out the Germans. Finally the Wehrmacht headquarters in the Hotel Quillenhof was in sight. The massive hotel structure proved … Squad Leader — The General #21.2
Strayer's Strays Scenario#: O Date: 6-Jun-44 Location: Saint-Germain-de-Varreville, France By dawn, Lt. Colonel R.L. Strayer had pieced together a unit composed of men of the 502nd, 506th and 508th Parachute Regiments. Front lines and flanks were meaningless. The officers and men didn't know one another. Radio contact with HQ … Squad Leader — The General #20.4
Land Leviathans Scenario#: TS3 Date: 3-Jul-41 Location: Lipki, Russia Under pressure from Stalin to hold Smolensk, Yeremenko was desperate to halt the German offensive. On I July, he committed his sole armored reserve: the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division under Major General LG. Kreyzer. It was a crack unit, … Squad Leader — The General #19,5
Pavlov's House Scenario#: TS2 Date: 20-Oct-42 Location: Stalingrad, Russia At the end of September, units of Rodimtsev's 13th Guards were ordered to seize buildings on Lenin Square and form strongpoints. A damaged apartment building was attacked and occupied by Sgt. Jacob Pavlov and his men, who formed a defensive … Squad Leader — The General #19,5
Semper Paratus Scenario#: J Date: 27-Sep-44 Location: Oorderen, Holland Lieutenant C.P .J. Des Groseillers urged his straining men to push again. D Company had found a German 75mm antitank gun in the ruins of Oorderen. The breech had been hidden and the weapon had been left in the town … Squad Leader — The General #18.2
Hunters from the Sky Scenario#: I Date: 24-Mar-45 Location: Rhine River, Germany "Operation Varsity," the airborne phase of the Allies' Northern Rhine crossing, was to be the last airborne assault of the war. Artillery units and fighter-bombers pounded the German gun positions in the vicinity of the drop zones lifting just prior… Squad Leader — The General #17.2
The Attempt to Relieve Peiper Scenario#: H Date: 21-Dec-44 Location: the Ardennes, Belgium The key to the German Ardennes Offensive Jay with a quick breakthrough and deep penetration. In the north the success of a breakthrough rested heavily with Colonel Peiper's Kampfgruppe from the 1st SS Division. But the quick victories which had … Squad Leader — The General #17.2
Delaying Action Scenario#: D Date: 30-Oct-44 Location: Western Lithuania, Lithuania After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of the Gross Deutschland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup?. One evening during the course of this retreat some three hundred of … Squad Leader — The General #15.6
Two eyes for an eye Scenario#: D7 Date: 29-Apr-45 Location: Berlin, Germany “Two eyes for an eye” was the Russian’s motto as the drive for Berlin had begun. Four Russian armies, 4,000 tanks, 22,000 guns and mortars, and over 4,000 aircraft began the drive on the German capital on the night of … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 9
Skrimish in Austria Scenario#: D6 Date: 6-Mar-45 Location: Austria After passing through Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, the Red Army smashed into Austria. A mixed group of Yugoslavs, Bulgarians and Russians met elements of the German force occupying Austria in a night melee. Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 7
Will the German garrison leave? Scenario#: D8 Date: 17-Jan-45 Location: Budapest, Hungary On December 12, 1944, the Russian high command ordered that Budapest was to be encircled and crushed. The 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts were in excellent position to cut off the city. German counterattacks delayed the encirclement of the city … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 11
Siegfried Idyll Scenario#: 44 Date: 20 March 1945 Location: Wissembourg, Germany The 36th finally entered Germany between Wissembourg and Altenstadt, but were now coming under fire from the fortified belt of the ‘Siegfried Line’. On the 20th of March, just five days after the initial move at Haguenau, the 141st Regiment … Band of Brothers — Texas Arrows
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright Scenario#: 43 Date: 13 March 1945 Location: Haguenau, Germany The 36th had captured most of Haguenau and the Germans held only the northern outskirts across the Moder River. The river was crossable by infantry but an obstacle to American vehicles. The small four-house bridgehead was expanded on the 13th … Band of Brothers — Texas Arrows
Schwammenauel Dam Scenario#: 1422 Date: 2/4/1945 Location: Schwammenauel Dam, Germany Before Operation 'Veritable' and 'Grenade' could begin, there was a matter of the Roer dams to consider. These dams were located in an area of steep gorges, small mountains and narrow roads. Earlier attempts to capture the dams had failed … Memoir '44 — Terrain Pack
Across the River Roer Scenario#: 1340 Date: 2/24/1945 Location: Linnich, Germany The 9th Army was lined up along the River Roer on the 23rd of February at the start of Operation Grenade. The river had receded enough to make a crossing possible and the Operation opened with a tremendous artillery bombardment. … Memoir '44 — Terrain Pack