"Gold or Sword?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 27 Aug 2020 8:08 p.m. PST |
On D-Day, the British landed on Gold Beach and Sword Beach. Which of these is more interesting in terms of wargaming? |
| deephorse | 28 Aug 2020 2:39 a.m. PST |
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| Serge69 | 28 Aug 2020 3:11 a.m. PST |
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 4th Cuirassier  | 28 Aug 2020 3:12 a.m. PST |
All the British beaches were named after fish: Gold, Sword, Jelly. Churchill made them change the latter to Juno because he didn't want grief-stricken parents to learn later that their son died on Jelly beach. No view on the main question, I've never done a D-Day game. The big question is when the German tanks should intervene and making that an option entails a deeper table than I'e ever had…. |
| laretenue | 28 Aug 2020 6:06 a.m. PST |
Sword. It offers you: 1. An opposed amphibious landing by an Inf Bde, supported by specialised armour.
2. Commandos a go-go on both flanks (including Kieffer's French, Lord Lovat and Piper Bill Millin should such extra colour tempt you).
3. An airborne drop on a flank to link up with.
4. The only intervention by German armour on D-Day Gold, by contrast, has only the essential parts of (1) and (2) above. Bot beaches give you interesting German batteries to overcome. |
| Heedless Horseman | 29 Aug 2020 9:34 p.m. PST |
Take a look at these vids?
link Some are archive material, but I definitely recommend the vids with presenters. Not always perfect in execution, but for a battlefield view, excellent! |
| Griefbringer | 30 Aug 2020 9:59 a.m. PST |
How interesting can a Normandy beach assault be in the first place? Germans are sitting tight in their bunkers, while the assaulting forces crawl forward on the beach and gradually blow away the defending forces. There might be some nail-biting moments, but essentially it becomes a battle of attrition, with little room to manoeuvre or terrain to exploit. Things get more exciting once the assaulting forces break beyond the beaches, where they can encounter both friendly paratroopers and German counter-attacks. In this sense the Sword beach area can be more dramatic, as 21st Panzer division managed to push quite far with their counter-attack. |
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