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Scenario#: J096     Date: 7/15/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily

Despite a spirited defense of the Simeto Bridgehead, the Germans had retaken the bridge and established a bridgehead of their own south of the Simeto River. After a night of preparation, a counterstroke was launched the morning of the 15tth by the…

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Scenario#: J095     Date: 7/14/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily

After a disasterous landing, Alastair Pearson's 1st Airborne Battalion of the 1st Airborne Division had seized the Primosole Bridge early on July 14th. The Italian garrison manning te bridge was driven off after a brief fight, and the morning passed…

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Scenario#: J094     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Melikhovo, Russia

Operation Citadel had been underway for five days and things were not going well for the German attack. The original plan to seize the town of Korocha was scrapped and 6th Panzer Division was tasked with breaking through the Soviet defenses and…

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Scenario#: J093     Date: 8/5/1941     Location: Porechye, Russia

A strong combat element of the 6th Panzer Division succeeded in effecting a surprise capture of the two Luga bridges at Porechye, 60 miles southwest of Leningrad, and in forming a bridgehead. The strong armored forces which were to follow remained…

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Scenario#: J092     Date: 4/10/1942     Location: Cebu City, Cebu Island

American forces in Bataan had surrendered the day before. Now it was Cebu Island's turn to feel the weight of the Japanese attack. Realizing that they could not defend the island with the few Filipino troops pressed into service, the garrison…

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Scenario#: J091     Date: 4/14/1941     Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGE

Rommel launched his first attempt to take Tobruk by storm on the night of Easter Sunday. After Afrika Korps engineers succeeded in breeching the formidable anti-tank ditch, wire and mine fortifications of the outer perimeter, infantry riding on tanks…

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Scenario#: J088     Date: 12/18/1944     Location: Kautenbach, Belgium

As the German offensive crashed upon and beyond Consthum, what was left of the defending 3rd Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment received orders to save itself and retreat to Wiltz before it was hopelessly cut off. After crossing the Clerve River at…

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Scenario#: J087     Date: 8/19/1944     Location: Warsaw, Poland UPRISING

The Polish Home Army uprising had commenced with the sounds of Soviet artillery heard in the distance. The first days of the uprising were wildly successful against the surprised Germans. Soon, however, the Germans ruthlessly struck back against the…

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Scenario#: J086     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Presles, France

On the evening of 2 August, fearful for his open left flank, Major Robinson pushed Ned Thornburn's D Company a half-mile to the east. Digging-in around the farm of les Grands Bonfaits, the company was later reinforced by two platoons of A Company, a…

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Scenario#: J085     Date: 6/27/1944     Location: Glusk, Russia

One important facet of Operation Bagration was the utilization of the large number of partisan bands that operated behind German lines. Soviet High Command planned to utilize the partisans to strike a decisive blow to the transporation network by…

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Scenario#: J084     Date: 11/22/1943     Location: Butaritari, Makin Atoll

While the Marines were experiencing the horror of Tarawa, the Army's 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit, was facing a considerably smaller Japanese force on Makin Atoll. Previously, the 27th Division had been garrisoning Hawaii and its…

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Scenario#: J081     Date: 9/1/1942     Location: Point 102, Egypt

Panzer-Regiment 5 and Panzer-Grenadier Regiment 104 swung further east to Point 102 in an attempt to find the weak spots that DAK intelligence told them existed. They hoped to break through to the British supply lines and force the 22nd Armored…

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Scenario#: J080     Date: 8/31/1942     Location: Alam el Halfa, Egypt

The foundation of Eighth Army's defense was the Alam Halfa Ridge, and the cornerstone of that fuondation was the western spur. By midday the 15th Panzer Division had fought its way to the ridge despite the loss of their division commander. The attack…

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Scenario#: J079     Date: 8/31/1942     Location: Alam el Halfa, Egypt

After capturing Tobruk in June, Field Marshal Rommel pressed into Egypt with Panzer-Armee Afrika. The Desert Fox was trying one last big push towards the Nile before supply difficulties would make it impossible to conduct further offensive action. --…

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Scenario#: J078     Date: 8/7/1941     Location: Roslavl, Russia

Another day of pouring rain. The mud clung like black tar to the men's boots. The 292nd Infantry Division slowed its push to close the bag on the Russian Fourth Army. Each overrun town required its own garrison. Each possible exit needed a guard. As…

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Scenario#: J077     Date: 4/10/1945     Location: Rethem, Germany

The defense of the Wesser-Aller line was allocated to the Second Marine Infantry of the Kriegsmarine. Approaching Rethem from the west, 1/5 Welch had orders to secure a crossing of the River Aller. But progress was slow. With his rifle companies…

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Scenario#: J075     Date: 1/31/1945     Location: Kustrin-Neustadt, Germany

As the Soviet January offensive raced across Poland, the security of the German heartland was directly threatened. The Oder River was the last major water obstacle before Berlin. Therefore its defense became a priority. Both sides fiercely contested…

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Scenario#: J074     Date: 7/29/1944     Location: La Pompe, France

By the fourth day of Operation Cobra, it was obvious to the German High Command that their forces were on the verge of being surrounded. They ordered the front line units to break out from the evolving pocket by moving south-east towards Percy. Near…

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Scenario#: J073     Date: 7/25/1944     Location: Montreuil Sur Lozon, France

General Omar Bradley devised Operation Cobra with the simple goal of cracking the German lines in Normandy's bocage country and achieving a breakout. The American offensive was scheduled to begin with a bang -- a carpet-bombing attack along a…

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Scenario#: J072     Date: 7/16/1944     Location: Gavrus, France

At the beginning of Operation Greenline, the 1st Ox and Bucks held the extreme right wing of 53rd Welsh Division. Starting at 0300 hours, their attack began disastrously. Both D and C Companies had heavy officer losses. B Company took the battalion…

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Scenario#: J071     Date: 2/10/1942     Location: Bukit Timah Village, Singapore Island

Following a successful crossing of the Johore Causeway on 9 February, Japanese forced advanced toward Bukit Timah heights, literally translated as Tin Mountain. The surrounding villages held a number of vital supply dumps and the main road ran…

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Scenario#: J068     Date: 5/25/1940     Location: Avalette, France

For four long days, the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers had held the line of the Canal de la Bassee. So tenacious was their stand that Generalmajor Rommel visited the scene to see for himself what was holding up 7th Panzer Division. Detached…

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Scenario#: J067     Date: 5/24/1940     Location: le Beau Marais, France

As the British troops in Calais were preparing to defend the town, the Rifle Brigade received orders to escort a column of ten-ton lorries loaded with rations for the British at Dunkirk. A composite force of infantry and tanks was made up to handle…

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Scenario#: J066     Date: 5/19/1940     Location: Ninove, Belgium

On the day that General Martel received orders to prepare for a counter-offensive around Arras, his 25th Brigade had already begun to fall back from its forward positions on the high ground overlooking the River Dendre. As the infantry regiments…

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Scenario#: J064     Date: 4/11/1945     Location: Kakazu Ridge, Okinawa

Starting at 0700, the 1st Battalion, 381st Regiment attacked across the saddle between Kakazu West and Kakazu Ridge. Although dubbed the “powerhouse attack”, the offensive immediately stalled as the men came under heavy fire from Japanese positions…

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Scenario#: J063     Date: 3/19/1945     Location: Oppeln, Upper Silesia

Marshall Koniev’s 1st Ukrainian Front attacked to seize the Upper Silesia all the way to the Czechoslovakian frontier. Elements of the Hermann Göring Parachute-Panzer Division were hurriedly transported by rail to the area. They were immediately…

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Scenario#: J062     Date: 1/3/1945     Location: Coroie, Belgium

On January 3rd, 1945, VII Corps launched its offensive to reduce the Bulge salient. The drive, with the 2nd Armored Division as a key element, headed towards Houffalize. Over a foot of snow covered the ground and the armored columns were forced to…

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Scenario#: J061     Date: 12/25/1944     Location: Celles, Belgium

The 2nd Panzer Division had made the most progress during the Ardennes offensive, and was positioned a mere 6 kilometers from the Meuse River. General Harmon, the 2nd Armored Division commander, contacted headquarters for permission to attack and,…

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Scenario#: J060     Date: 11/21/1944     Location: Merzig, Germany

As part of the Third Army’s encirclement of Metz, Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division was ordered to strike east towards the Saar River to secure the Army’s flank. Fearing that this was the main attack to roll up the Saar region, the…

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Scenario#: J059     Date: 10/13/1944     Location: East Prussia

In October 1944, 1st Company, Hermann Göring's Fallschirmpanzerkorps Panzerjager Battalion received 16 new JagdPanzer IV vehicles. Their mission was to act as a mobile fire brigade for the panzerkorps. Their first objective was to thwart the Soviet…

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Scenario#: J058     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

One of the few units near the bridge not attached to the 2nd Parachute Battalion was Platoon No. 8 of the 3rd Parachute Battalion. Accompanied by men from the Headquarters Defense Platoon, Platoon No. 8 probed outward into the factories of the…

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Scenario#: J057     Date: 8/3/1944     Location: Maisoncelles, France

Following a night advance to Point 176, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the Guards Armoured Division formed its gun lines in the small fields west of Maisoncelles. At approximately 0845 hours, guns began to engage targets and the battery…

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Scenario#: J056     Date: 7/6/1944     Location: Smorgon, Belarus

Following the capture of Minsk and the destruction of the bulk of the Fourth Army, the 5th Guards Tank Army pushed westward towards Vilnius. North of Minsk, emergency reserve units of Army Group Center augmented with Luftwaffe flak units, were…

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Scenario#: J055     Date: 4/6/1944     Location: Nhpum Ga, Burma

Roy Matsumoto, a Japanese-American volunteer in Merrill's Marauders, would sneak up to the enemy lines at night to learn where the Japanese planned to attack the next day. On the night of the 5th, Matsumoto had found out that the Japanese planned to…

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Scenario#: J054     Date: 7/12/1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

The breaking dawn on the 12th saw both sides slamming artillery barrages into the grainfields around Prokhorovka. Like two tides of steel and flesh rushing towards each other, the 5th Guards Tank Army and II SS Panzer Corps collided just south of the…

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Scenario#: J053     Date: 7/11/1943     Location: Okytaberskii State Farm, USSR

Scenario 2/3 of Broadway to Prokhorovka campaign (page 60 of Journal 3). Both sides chooses their OBs from available groups. The unit list below lists everything available, but the players only get to use about half of them.

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Scenario#: J052     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Komsomolets State Farm, Russia

Scenario 1/3 of Broadway to Prokhorovka campaign (page 60 of Journal 3).Both sides chooses their OBs from available groups. The unit list below lists everything available, but the players only get to use about half of them.

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Scenario#: J051     Date: 7/12/1943     Location: Canicatti, Sicily

CCA was ordered to secure Canicatti. A small Italian contingent remained in Canicatti and the 15th Panzergrenadier Division was digging in on the high ground to the north.

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Scenario#: J050     Date: 4/29/1943     Location: Hill 107, Tunisia

The Germans were defending Hill 107, a key piece of terrain that denied the Allies a direct route to Tunis. The 2nd Royal Fusiliers were assigned to the task to take the hill. At 0600 on the morning of April 29, 1943, the Fusiliers attacked,…

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Scenario#: J049     Date: 11/28/1942     Location: Zherebetso, Russia

Attacking across a broad front, the Soviet winter offensive known as Operation Mars had some early penetrations far behind the lines of the German 9th Army. Unfortunately many of these breakthroughs could not be supported in the face of tough German…

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Scenario#: J047     Date: 2/8/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya

The famed Desert Rats were on the move. Heading for the African coast through the Saleh/Beda Fomm area, they planned to set up ambush positions against the large Italian motorized columns retreating from Benghazi towards Tripoli. The 2nd Royal Tank…

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Scenario#: J046     Date: 1/11/1942     Location: Tarakan Island, Dutch East Indies

The Japanese offensive against the Dutch East Indies was designed to gain control of the rubber and oil production facilities found on the many scattered islands in the region. The Dutch defense on Tarakan Island was organized by “Fronts” protecting…

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Scenario#: J043     Date: 5/23/1940     Location: Guines, France

In their attempts to stem the German advance to Calais and other port cities, the British dispatched the 3rd Royal Tank Brigade, composed of the 2nd king's Royal Rifles and the 1st Queen's Victoria Rifles. On 23 May, these units sallied aggressively…

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Scenario#: J041     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Finneid, Norway

In 1940, the Norwegian army was a force completely unable to resist the Nazi war machine. Its equipment and training were mediocre. Furthermore, the German aggression took its High Command by complete surprise; such was the case of Colonel Sundlo,…

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Scenario#: J040     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Finneid, Norway

The German operation codenamed “Wildente” used surprise to catch the Anglo-Norwegian units off-guard by barring their way south of Ranfjord. A steamer sailed up the fjord and landed 300 men and two guns in the small port of Hemnesberget. They could…

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Scenario#: J039     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Hemnesberget, Norway

On 10 May, south of Mosjoen, two platoons from the 5th Independent Company along with Norwegian soldiers laid a deadly ambush for a German motorcycle vanguard. The Allies then retreated to the Hemnesberget area with the aim of delaying the Germans…

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Scenario#: J038     Date: 4/28/1940     Location: Gudbrandsdal Valley, Norway

In southern Norway, any Axis line of advance had to parallel the existing road system due to terrain and weather. Taking advantage of these restrictions, the Allies based their defense on a series of roadblocks supported by flanking fire from…

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Scenario#: J037     Date: 4/23/1940     Location: Tretten, Norway

The first Allied land operations conducted in April 1940 to stop the German invasion of Norway had been a complete failure. The Allies suffered defeat after defeat. Nonetheless, at Tretten, they made one last attempt to stem the German advance.

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Scenario#: J036     Date: 4/21/1940     Location: Verdalsöra, Norway

After landing at Namsos, the British goal was to make contact with the Norwegians at Verdalsöra where a strategic bridge crossed the Inna River. On the morning of 21 April, a German destroyer landed a company of Gebirgsjagers on the shore north of…

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Scenario#: PB06A     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France

The final relief of the British paratroopers at dusk. The British get a massive force, including ponderous but impenetrable Churchill tanks, but have to clear the Germans out of every building.

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