Produktbeschreibung
HAUT FORNEL , NORMANDY, FRANCE, 6 June 1944: The afternoon of D-Day wore on with numerous disjointed actions in the Normandy countryside for the Screaming Eagles. Preceding the main body of C Company was a point of twenty-three men under Lieutenant Morton J. Smit. As the point approached the village of Haut Fornel, a truck suddenly pulled up and twenty Germans leaped out. Smit unloaded on them, dropping ten, and scattering the remainder. Meanwhile, the main force of Company C under Captain Hancock heard the firing and moved forward to investigate. Just then Hancock saw a German battery—two 88s on halftracks—enter the village and halt just to his front. Hancock split his force into two groups, seventeen men on a wide sweep to the left and another seventeen under Lieutenant Jack Borchard, to come up from the right. Action intensified quickly, as another gun-towing truck was seen and a German platoon entered the village on foot. Private William Kelly managed to disable one of the 88s with a Bazooka round (the other disappeared). Enemy mortar and machine-gun fire took its toll and halted the American attack. The Germans tried to push forward but were stopped by accurate machine-gun and mortar fire from an 81mm mortar commanded by Lieutenant Rance Cotton of 1st Battalion’s HQ Company. The tables turned, most of the German soldiers turned and fled. Hancock and Cotton then went forward and rounded up thirteen prisoners.
Welcome to the BoB NORMANDY, a map-based VARIANT module that depicts the fierce fighting in the Bocage by the 101st Airborne Division on Da-Day and beyond. BoB NORMANDY contains eight scenarios, all playable on the new map included. You also two copies of the new die-cut counter sheet (a total of 269 color die-cut counters) with 101st AB SMC/MMC, new counters for M5A1 trailers (such as the one they carried John Wayne around in during the film, "The Longest Day"), some extra counters for the HB3 crowd, a new German truck type, etc. All in all, the 101'st Screaming Eagles depicted in the film "Band of Brothers" and the seminal unit history, "Rendevous With Destirny" will literally drop off the sprue on to your Normandy battlefield ... and you can be sure we'll pump out more scenarios to follow Winters, Guarnere, Toy, Talbert and company ... as they move on to new battlefields from Market Garden to the Bulge.
In addition to your 8 scenario BoB NORMANDY set, you'll also receive an additional 2 FREE BONUS scenarios, playable on the new map PLUS another FREE BONUS set of 2 Brécourt Manor scenarios PLUS the large-hex Brécourt Manor historical map. |
