Game played face-to-face

Is this meant to be the same battle as depicted in 'Band Of Brothers' when they take out the battery of guns ? If so, this went far different to the one in the TV Series.

The Germans were initially able to be aggressive. Spotting the Paras in the hedgerows after the Airborne let off some small arms fire, the 105 battery managed to disrupt some of the Americans. With this, the German infantry and HMG's attacked and assaulted the lightweight US forces inflicting 25 casualties.

When reinforcements arrived an hour later, the paras tried to take the attack to the Germans but again were rebuffed with losses. Eventually, yet more reinforcements meant that from a posotion of offence, the Germans now had to pull back and defend the two villages. Their reduced HMG platoon was also overrun after accquiting itself well in close-assault but was finally and inevitably over-powered. The 105's were shoved onto the backs of wagons and off they went. Due to losses of some 75 men, the Americans were in no position to win this small engagement, but they now tried to take the German win away by attacking the two villages. By doing this, the US troops also had to be mindful not to take any more losses which would have earned an instant victory for the Germans.

The attack on the villages involved an outflanking attempt backed up by the arrival of US Army reinforcements pushing up from Utah beach from the east. Sadly for the Americans, the 105's that had now embedded themselves in one of the villages along with the mortar platoon fought furiously against 3 x Paratroop platoons trying to oust them. In the other village, the remaining 2 German platoons were holding off enemy units in a firefight. Despite desperate attempts by the Americans in the last 45 minutes, no headway could be made and the German-held towns stayed that way as did the possession of their 105's, albeit under heavy assault at game end. The Airborne had left 75 casualties at Holdy, the Germans just 15 of their machine-gunners.

This was a very very neat small scenario and I'd definately recommend this as a time-filler if any face-to-face meet ended sooner than expected beforehand.