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Normandy 1944

Operation Neptune · 6–9 June · hour by hour

It is midnight on the sixth of June. Off the Baie de Seine, six thousand ships are holding station in the dark. Above the Cotentin and the Orne, the transports are running in. In seventy-two hours the lodgement will either be a front or a disaster, and the difference will be made in the next three days.

You command the Allied armies. The landings themselves are not fought — each formation comes ashore on its own beach at the hour it came ashore in 1944, at the strength it came ashore with. Everything after that is yours.

128 × 70 kmUtah to the Dives, and fifty kilometres inland
1 hex = 1 km1 turn = 1 hour
72 turnsmidnight 6 June to midnight 9 June
7 capital shipsRodney, Warspite, Ramillies, Texas, Arkansas, Nevada, Roberts

The seed shifts the airborne scatter and the hour at which OKW finally releases the panzer reserve. Everything else — the ground, the order of battle, the landing timetable — is the record.

Normandy 1944 v1.2.0 BETA Education Series
6 June 00:00
D-Day Night 72 hours remain
Open Bocage Woods Flooded Ridge Built-up Beach Atlantic Wall