187 Pegasus Bridges

Details: Written by: Ron Howard; Category: Western Front; Published: 18 January 2021; Last Updated: 05 January 2022; Hits: 734

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Total plays 2 - Last reported by pino on 2021-05-07 23:29:30

On the early morning of June 6th,1944, the platoons of the 2nd Oxfordshire and the Buckinghamshire Ligh: Infantry landed a few hundred meters from their targets; the bridge over the Caen Canal and the bridge over the Orne River. The defenders, the 736 Grenadierregiment were taken completely by surprise. Major John Howard's men quickly overtook their targets while British sappers cleared the bridges of explosives. The expected German counterattacks came at dawn with the arrival of panzer units and the Panzergrenadiers. Finally at 1300, Lord Lovitt's Commando's arrived to relieve the exhausted glider troopers.

	British	German
Division 1	5 Squad Bases - 10 Regular Infantry - 4 Elite Infantry - 2 Officer - 2 Machine Gun Crew 1x Engineer 1x Flamethrower 1x AntiTank	3 Squad Bases - 5 Regular Infantry - 2 Elite Infantry - 1 Officer - 2 Machine Gun Crew 1 Flak 36 88mm Gun 1x Engineer
Division 2	3 Squad Bases - 9 Regular Infantry - 2 Elite Infantry - 1 Officer 1x Engineer 1x Flamethrower 1x AntiTank	2 Squad Bases - 5 Regular Infantry - 1 Elite Infantry - 1 Machine Gun Crew 1x Engineer
Strategy Decks	Command 1 Morale 1	Artillery 1 German Reinforcements 1
Starting Strategy Cards	2	2
Operations Cards	Double Time	No Surrender Lay Smoke
Deployment Zone	Div. 1: Glider hexes (bright yellow) on maps 6A and 4A Div. 2: Glider hexes (dark yellow) on map 5A.	Div. 1: Black hexes on map 4A. Div. 2: Light gray hexes on map 5A. The German antitank gun goes into the blue hex.
Starting Initiative
Objective	The British must take and hold the two bridges. They must use their engineers to remove the charge markers and they must keep the Germans from using the bridges to reinforce their Normandy beach defenders. If the British hold just one bridge at the command phase of turn 5, it is a partial British victory.	If the Germans hold both bridges at the command phase of turn 5, it is a major German victory. If the British fail to remove the charge markers, the bridges explode at the command phase of the fifth round.
Rounds	5
Actions per turn	3	2
Reinforcements	Status phase Round 3: (yellow R hex) 3 Squad Bases - 6 Regular Infantry - 4 Elite Infantry - 2 Officer 1x Engineer 2x AntiTank	Status phase Round 3: (gray R hexes) 1 Panzer IV 1 Stug III 2 Squad Bases - 6 Regular Infantry - 1 Mortar Crew
Special Rules	One or both players may use the Leadership Decks from Normandy. The British get the Montgomery card, and the Germans get the Model card. Follow the rules for the leadership decks. Both brdges have demolitions markers on them. If they are not removed by the command phase of turn five, the bridges will explode. The engineer squads can remove demolitions from the bridges by moving onto the bridge and then in the next round, fatigue the unit and remove the demolition marker. Gliders block line of sight and give +1 cover to the units in their hexes. If by the ccmmand phase of any round, both demolition markers have been removed and both bridges are under British control, the British win. If these conditions are not met by the command phase of round five, the Germans win.
Terrain Features	Rivers are flooded.