As part ul'Operation Overlord, the American Ranger battalions attempted to capture gun batteries at Pointe du Hoc after making a cliff assault under enemy fire. However; upon reaching their taiga they discovered their Mformation was wrong and were famed to search almost a mile jiirther inland in order to find the gun batteries, which had been moved by the Germans prior to the attack.
| American | German | |
| Division 1 |
8 Squad Bases 1x |
6 Squad Bases 1x |
| Division 2 |
9 Squad Bases 1x |
7 Squad Bases - 22 Regular Infantry - 2 Officers - 2 Machine Gun Crews |
| Strategy Decks | American Air Support 1 | Command 1 Ground Support 1 |
| Starting Strategy Cards | "Take Cover" (x2) and "Rally Cry" from Morale 1 | 3 |
| Operations Cards | 032 Scaling Cliffs 008 Lay Smoke 036 Naval Bombardments 028 Beach Defenses (shared) 024 Thermite Explosives (shared) 027 Outfitted Bunkers (shared) |
033 Misinformation 028 Beach Defenses (shared) 024 Thermite Explosives (shared) 027 Outfitted Bunkers (shared) |
| Deployment Zone | Any hex with a green border. | Germans can deploy anywhere on mapboards 22B and 25B and in any hex with a grey border. The grey hexes on boards 26A and 29A can have, at most, 3 squads per board. |
| Starting Initiative |  |
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| Objective | The Americans win by eliminating the German units by the end of round 4 or if they have captured the "4" objective marker and the Germans don't win by the end of round 8. | The Germans immediately win if the Americans do not move all of their troops off the beach terrain on game boards 26A and 29A by the end of round 4. Starting in round 6, the Germans can also win by controlling the German objective marker at the end of the round. |
| Rounds | 8 | |
| Actions per turn | 3 | 3 |
| Reinforcements | - |
Status Phase 5: 6 Squad Bases |
| Special Rules |
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| Terrains | All streams are shallow. | |
| Weather Deck |
1x Light Rain "Light Rain" is the weather for Turn I. Weather is checked on rounds 2, 4, 6, and 8. |
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