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Coming Through Scenario#: BOH14     Date: 06/13/1944     Location: Jct D223/d971, France The 17th Panzergrenadier Division was tasked with retaking Carentan. On the morning of June 13th they made steady progress toward the city, yet were eventually stopped by elements of the 502nd PIR. The American Airborne troops counterattacked, but… Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Carentan Scenario#: BOH13     Date: 06/12/1944     Location: Carentan, France The men of E Company 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment entered Carentan on the morning ofJune 12th, 1944, Colonel von der Heyte. the Commander of the 6th Fallschirmjager, who were defending Carentan, had pulled all but 50 of his men from … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
The Call of Duty Scenario#: BOH12     Date: 06/08/1944     Location: E Of St Come Du Mont, France During the day of June 8th, the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division assisted in the attack on St. Come du Mont. Their job was to destroy the four bridges that linked Carentan to the geninsula. It … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Ewell's Charge 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. … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Tameville Breakout Scenario#: BOH10     Date: 06/07/1944     Location: Tameville, France The men of the 6th Fallschirmjager Regiment were based near St Come du Mont en D-Day, and after successfully defending the town, commenced probing for enemy positions in an attempt to link up with other German forces. One patrol from … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Doggin' Down the Road Scenario#: BOH09     Date: 06/07/1944     Location: Beaumont, France Colonel Bob Sink directed the attack of his 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) against Vierville and Beaumont with the objective of capturing the southern crossroads of St. Come-du—Mont. It was early on June 7th when the two battalions moved… Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
The Bridge at Chef Du Pont Scenario#: BOH08     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Chef Du Pont, France After attacks by men ofthe 507th and 508th PlR, the German forces defending the bridge at Chef Du Pont withdrew across the bridge and set up defensive positions along the opposite bank. Further American attacks were thwarted by a fierce … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Counter Attack at Sainte-Mère-Église Scenario#: BOH07     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: St Mere Eglise, France The town of St Mere Eglise was one of the first towns liberated by the Allied forces during D-Day. Men of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division secured the town with minimal … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
The Road to Foucarville Scenario#: BOH06     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Foucarville, France Pulling together in groups of twos and threes, the men of the 101st Airborne slowly formed a semblance of unit cohesion. Because the Germans were confused, overwhelmed, or unable to coordinate a defense, by the dawn of June 6th the … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Medal of Honor 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 … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Brothers in Arms Scenario#: BOH04     Date: 06/06/1944     Location: Neuville, France Lieutenant Turner Turnbull was a Native American, half Cherokee in fact, something that would have made him a second class citizen in mid 20th century America, but mattered not to his brothers in arms. On June 6th, his battalion, the … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Le Manoir 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 … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Flash... Thunder! 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 … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Rebecca, Can You See Me? 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 … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Band of Heroes
Stalingrad of the West Scenario#: HoN30     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Arnhem, Holland Colonel John Frost's 2"^ Parachute Battalion had orders to take and hold the Arnhem Bridge until relieved. He had taken one end of the bridge and had established a small perimeter with the limited resources at his disposal. Now, with mounting German… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Heroes of Normandy
The Mad Minute Scenario#: BttR09     Date: 1945-01-03     Location: Longchamps, Belgium Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Christmas Day Flurry Scenario#: BttR08     Date: 1944-12-25     Location: Foy-notre Dame, Sorinne, France The German operation of Wacht am Rhine, also known as the Battle of the Bulge, had not gone as Hitler had envisioned. The vanguard of the 2nd Panzer Division got to within 4 km from the Meuse, where on December 24th, they were stopped by the US 2nd… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Cowboy, up! Scenario#: BttR07     Date: 1944-11-19     Location: Filstroff, France Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Aachen, Bloody Aachen Scenario#: BttR06     Date: 1944-10-18     Location: Aachen, Germany The ancient, picturesque city of Aachen had been incorporated into the German defensive positions of the Siegfried Lines. It held little military value; it was, however, an important symbol as it was the fi rst German city threatened by an enemy… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Capture or Elst Scenario#: BttR05     Date: 1944-09-23     Location: Elst, Holland Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Into the Tigers Dan Scenario#: BttR04     Date: 1944-08-19     Location: St-lambert-sur-dives, France Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Birthday Present Scenario#: BttR03     Date: 1944-07-15     Location: St-denis-le-gast, France Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Blood Stained Bocage Scenario#: BttR02     Date: 1944-07-11     Location: W Of Charlemenerie, France As part of the effort to stop the Allied forces from capturing the city of Saint Lo, the Panzer Lehr Division had been rushed to the area. On one of the fi rst days in the area, the Panzer-Lehr launched a counterattack against elements of the… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Urban Hide and Seek Scenario#: BttR01     Date: 1944-06-13     Location: Villers-bocage, France Lock 'n Load Tactical — Battles to the Rhine
Closing the Sack Scenario#: NBO06     Date: 1944-12-20     Location: Noville, Belgium In the morning, the extent of the German build up became apparent. Noville was threatened by possible encirclement. HQ decided to evacuate the town and fall back to Foy. Will the American forces manage to break through the tightening ring of iron or… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Noville - Bastogne's Outpost
Roadblocks! Scenario#: NBO05     Date: 1944-12-19     Location: Noville, Belgium When Team Desobry arrived at the small crossroads settlement of Noville their task was clear: stop the German advance on Bastogne. The men of Combat Command B (CCB), of which the team was a part of, had barely enough ñrepower to block a single road,… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Noville - Bastogne's Outpost
One Hell of a Night Scenario#: NBO04     Date: 1944-12-19     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 … Lock 'n Load Tactical — Noville - Bastogne's Outpost
Here Comes the Sun Scenario#: NBO03     Date: 1944-12-19     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 was… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Noville - Bastogne's Outpost
Tigers in the Mist Scenario#: NBO02     Date: 1944-12-19     Location: Noville, Belgium In the morning the men had to fall back to Noville proper. But the day's fighting had just begun. Out of the almost impenetrable mist came threatening noises: Tigers were … Lock 'n Load Tactical — Noville - Bastogne's Outpost
A Counterattack Countered Scenario#: NBO01     Date: 1944-12-19     Location: Noville, Belgium His forces bolstered by the hardy Paras of the 1st Battalion, 506th PIR, Maj. Desobry felt confident. He immediately ordered a counterattack to take the high ground around Noville. The German Volksgrenadiers and Panzers had other ideas, however. - … Lock 'n Load Tactical — Noville - Bastogne's Outpost
Hare and Hounds with the Heins Scenario#: Comp25     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Near Best, Holland Around the time of the battle for the little town of St. Oedenrode, the 101st Airborne, 3rd Battalion, 502nd PIR, sent patrols through the Zonsche Forest, trjdng to move toward the town of Best and its bridge. German resistance was tough in the… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Fallschirmjäger Requiem Scenario#: Comp22     Date: 1945-03-23     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 town… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Fortress Breslau Scenario#: Comp21     Date: 1945-02-17     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… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
One Last Blitz for Old Time's Sake Scenario#: Comp20     Date: 1945-02-09     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, and had… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Pushing Back Scenario#: Comp19     Date: 1945-01-15     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 began to move out.… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Tip of the Speirs Scenario#: Comp18     Date: 1945-01-10     Location: Foy, Belgium There was no rest for the men of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Exhausted by their defense of Bastogne, they were never the less tapped to counterattack the retreating Germans during the month of January 1945. Their officer… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Teamwork Scenario#: Comp17     Date: 1944-12-23     Location: Monde-st.etienne, Belgium Faced with the extreme cold, limited supplies, and a lack of air support, the men of the 401st Glider infantry held on to the southern and western perimeters around Bastogne. On the 22th, the Americans captured a roadblock on the St. Hubert Highway:… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Insanity At the Sanatorium Scenario#: Comp16     Date: 1944-12-20     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… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Surrounded in Strass Scenario#: Comp15     Date: 1944-12-10     Location: Strass, Germany G Company from the 331st IR of the American 83rd ID, accompanied by a platoon of Shermans, thought they were headed through the supposedly cleared village of Strass to support the assault on Gey, to the north, on the northeast edge of the Húrtgen… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Daybreaker Scenario#: Comp14     Date: 1944-12-10     Location: Gey, Germany Just before daybreak two companies from the American 83rd Infantry Division, supported by a platoon of tank destroyers, launched an assault on Gay, a key village on the northeastern edge of the Húñgen Forest. An artillery barrage prepped the village… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Undaunted Courage Scenario#: Comp13     Date: 1944-09-21     Location: Oosterhout, Holland On September 20th, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment under the leadership of Major Julian Cook had conducted an amphibious crossing on the Waal River and secured the Nijmegen Bridge. This audacious operation had cost the 504th dearly, and they… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
The Brickyard 150 Scenario#: Comp12     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Arnhem, Holland For the men of the British 1st Airborne Division, Murphy's Law had reigned supreme since the onset of Operation Market Garden. Repeated attempts to reinforce Major John Frost's position by the bridge had so far failed. At dawn of the third day of the… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
An Apple Cart for Jerry Scenario#: Comp11     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Wolfheze, Holland As they held onto one of the drop zones outside of the village of Wolfheze, British paras of the 7th King's Own Borderers had been fighting off constant German attacks. After the 4th Parachute Brigade made a successful landing, the Borderers were… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Big War in a Pocket Scenario#: Comp10     Date: 1944-08-16     Location: Le Muy, France The landing near the Nartuby River went fine for the men of the 550th Glider infantry Battalion under the command of Lt Col. Edward I. Sachs. They were soon called to reinforce the British 2nd independent Parachute Brigade Group, which had just… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Hedgerow Hell Scenario#: Comp09     Date: 1944-07-15     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 of the… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Bloody Crossroad Scenario#: Comp08     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: W Of Ste Mere L'eglise, France On D-Day+ 1, the 82nd Airborne Division attempted to secure the Sainte-Mére-Eglíse zone by establishing roadblocks and patrolling the surrounding area. Simultaneously, the Germans prepared counterattacks. Here elements of the German 1058th Infanterie… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Cassino Royale Scenario#: Comp06     Date: 1944-03-01     Location: Cassino, Italy One of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War, this operation was a series of four battles, fought by multiple divisions, for the Gustav Line and Rome beyond. Perhaps the indelible image of the battles was the struggle for Cassino and the… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Devils In Baggy Pants Scenario#: Comp05     Date: 1944-02-05     Location: Aprilia, Italy American parachutists, devils in baggy pants, are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-headed devils are everywhere . .… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
In the Ghetto Scenario#: Comp04     Date: 1943-04-19     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… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
The Road to Astrachan Scenario#: Comp03     Date: 1942-09-13     Location: Elista, Russia Hitler's Army Group A had driven deep into the southern steppes of Russia. So far and so fast, in fact, that maps were of limited use and intelligence of the opposition even less. The Germans decided to equip a long range reconnaissance force to… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3