Project Normandy 200 player event - Story from the front

by stockypotty Sat 4 Feb - 13:30:34

The day of days was upon us... the plan had been set... courage would get us through

* Actually f**k it, let's get down to brass taxs *

The plan was to have a diversion team hit the beach around D4. This consisted of around 8 men in 8 boats and hit the beach just before we made the main assault. The main assault was to hit J8 kp 7 beach, the least defend area. As we moved in area attack and mortars hit the cliff and the AT guns.

Here is a video of the main assault: http://www.xfire.com/video/53e2bb/

However as you can see here the first wave was a complete success: https://i.imgur.com/mJ7CZ.jpg We managed to get a large portion of the team off the beach.

However we had a flaw in the master plan. Instead of doing this tactic (which at one point was the main plan): https://i.imgur.com/msKQj.jpg We ended up having the plan of moving west along the middle of the cliff towards dog and then move north.

This worked to an extent, as we managed to cap dog. Here is a screenshot from the german side as we were taking dog: https://i.imgur.com/869In.jpg

As you can see, they had a vast force of re-enforcements that had spawned in on the far eastern FOB. Now if we had that blue formation, we might have stood a chance. However we didn't, and we got overwhelmed: https://i.imgur.com/HpeuW.jpg

After this we made a rush for East point in which we managed to get around 15 guys up on the cliff, however we got bogged down by a vast force moving in from that eastern FOB again, and we got taken out.

Then it all went to s**t and we couldn't make it inland again.

HOWEVER! We lost with the german side only having 400 tickets left, which for this map is fantastic. Not only this but it has been agreed that the map is heavily favorable towards the German side. Mainly in terms of re-enforcements / terrain etc. So we put up a fantastic fight!

Was a great event!

p.s - Trying to have communication been a commander, 3 platoons, 3 sqds within those platoons, and 2 fireteams within the sqds was a nightmare.