Two boat crews hit the beach moving at the double with three Shermans coming ashore in support. Switching tactics in turn five, the Americans went for the right side of the beach. Swimming Shermans finally come ashore with more infantry ![]() Moving at the double and under heavy machine gun fire, the short-lived progress was stalled and the platoons lay pinned with heavy casualties. ![]() With still more delayed landing reinforcements and no tanks heading for the beach, two US platoons breached the sea wall in turn four. Remanants of US platoons get over the sea wall in turn four Naval guns and P-47 air support attempting to hit the rear German artillery proved completly ineffective as troops at the beach continued to be pinned and detsroyed. View from the German rear with Americans landingĬhoosing to still keep their D-Day tanks off the beach, the Americans attempted another landing in turns three with only two boats able to land. Choosing to shoot rather than move at the double, the first three American platoons were quickly pinned and subsequently destroyed in the first two turns of the game. ![]() With the first turn, two boat assualt platoons and a pioneer platoon landed at their left and center area of the beach. The Americans began with a naval gun barrage pinning every German platoon but only detsroying one stand at the beach. The US landing begins against the fortified coast and German artillery at the rear Half their 1500-point force remained off the table in reserve. At the rear of the table, the Germans deployed an artillery battery and another machine gun platoon in a nearby house defending their objective. The German player then deployed their coastal defenses at the beach including barbed wire, two bunkers, tobruk machine gun nests and a Grenadier platoon. This past weekend a few of us ran an Uncle Red beach assault scenario on one of the club’s sand tables using the Flames of War Amphibious Assault rules and ‘Hit the Beach’ scenario.The 4′ x 5′ table I set up featured a sculpted surf landing zone, sea wall and two beach exits leading to an inland area. Gaming on a sand table provides a great amount of flexibility and realism in shaping the contours found in real-life battlefields, adding tremendous playability to just about any scenario.įlames of War “Hit the Beach” scenario set-up NY Army National Guard troops train with a sand table at Fort Irwin, CA in 2011ĭespite all our military technological advancements, modern war colleges and even troops deployed in the field today still use sand tables for training and planning real-world actions. Sand tables have been used by military planners since ancient times when sticks and stones were simply laid out in the sand on the ground. Metropolitan Wargamers in Brooklyn, NY is pretty well known for the sand tables which occupy our space, and some of our founding members have won several awards for presenting sand table games at conventions over the years. US 17th Airborne Division using a sand table before Operation Varsity in 1945 The success of the assualt is credited largely to the effective landing of more Sherman tank support, relatively light German fortifications covering the exits from the beach and early inland actions by the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions earlier in the morning. ![]() Salinger, came ashore with relatively few US casualties of just 400 compared to the 3000 at nearby Omaha Beach. The US 4th Infantry Division at Utah Beach, including Gen. Map of US 4th Infantry Division at Utah Beach J(“Uncle Red” circled) Awaiting the invasion was the German 709th Infantry Division. The beach was divided into three sectors (Tare Green, Uncle Red and Victor), and the landing of some 23,000 troops and armor support started the day’s invasion at 6:30am. Utah Beach was added as an objective for US forces late in the invasion planning and occupied the far right of the Allied coastal assault. When most people think of the D-Day invasion at Normandy on June 6th, 1944, the deadly images from the US landings at Omaha Beach in popular movies like The Longest Day or Saving Private Ryan generally come to mind.
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