Gold Beach

I had a game of Memoir 44 with new member Paul last night. Just the one game, though, as he had to leave early.

Anyway, we played the semi-official D-Day Gold Beach scenario. I was teh attacking Allies, whilst Paul took the Germans. He's printed off some terrain pieces for the game, which look very nice.

Here's the setup, minus one German unit I forgot to put on at the start and three figures from an Allied unit on the beach. Both issues were sorted before they became an issue.

I didn't take many photos during the game. My first landings were on the left and I was able to push forward and take the objective there (as well as get a medal for a destroyed German unit). I was left with some shaky units there, which I hid behind the village. A half-arsed landing on teh right stalled at the water's edge, and I was lucky not to lose the infantry unit there; Paul kept rolling retreats, which would have been fatal for it, but I was hiding behind a beach obstacle which, whilst it offered no cover, did allow me to ignore retreats. And ignore them I did. Multiple times.

Anyway, the main attack went in in the centre. A Royal Navy barrage drove the artillery out of the bunker there, leaving me able to push forward fairly effectively. I pushed into Le Hamel (the two-hex village on the join between the left flank and centre, but was thrown out. I pushed in a second attack though. However a few turns of duff combat rolls on my part allowed Paul to come back, and we ended a turn with both of us on five of the six medals required for victory.

But the Allies have a six card hand. Whilst Paul was struggling with his four cards, two of which were for a sector he didn't have troops in, I had been able to save up a goody - Their Finest Hour. My roll wasn't great, but I got to move two infantry and some tanks with is, all of which got a bonus in combat. I used it to clear the central bunker, and do a tank attack into Le Hamel, recapturing it.

This meant I won the fight 7-5, but is was damned close!