Gaming - D Day - Sword beach to Pegasus bridge.

 7 of us met up today for the first big game in 18 months . 

James and I ran the Germans , Ian W had the Ox & Bucks at the bridge . Martin has grandads Commando, and John,Stig , Bren and Other Ian had the Funnies, the 13/18th Hussars , and the assault  8th infantry brigade from 3rd Division. 

AVRE ‘s are the first to land

LST’s unload the 1st wave , DD’s swimming in 

Setting about clearing a path through beach obstacles and the wire 

   Next up infantry and more engineers 

 

The beach obstacles are cleared by engineers and the tanks and infantry start to knock out the defences in front of them 

                                     The Ox and Bucks hold the bridge against the first small attacks 

 Hillman dominates the inland position on one side of the table 

Colleville lies between the beach and Pegasus bridge .

  Commanders discussion of inland progression - we even had “Ike” aka Bob join on Zoom from the USA to find out if they had made good progress  - or are they drinking tea!  John was drinking tea …

 

The Commando’s follow the piper and race off through Colleville , assaulting any troublesome Germans.

                                                It wasn’t long before the bridge was in sight …

  

         A good fun game , with laughs along the way . It’s been sorely missed . More again soon.

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