Blitzkrieg, September 1939 and the 4th Panzer Division has crossed the Polish border and is racing towards Warsaw, before it stands the Wołyńska Cavalry Brigade, what chance has cavalry got against tanks? Your Soldiers are of the 4 Pz Div Schützen Regiment 12, be they on motorcycles or dismounted, your missions and objectives will be to clear the way...
Nuts! - Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, 101st Airborne, Bastogne 1944. On the 16th of December 1944, in the midst of a bitter winter, the German army launched its’ last major offensive in the West, gambling on breaking through the American lines and exploiting to the Meuse, in the hope defeat could be staved off. Critical to the success was the...
(n the early hours of the 19th of August 1942, a large amphibious force consisting of 237 Ships and Landing craft carried 5000 Canadian Soldiers, 1000 British Commandos, 50 U.S. Rangers - on their first raid of WW2, and 50 of the latest Tanks available to the British forces moved with deadly intent towards the enemy occupied coast of France. Seventy nine...
The discovery of Dieselium in the late 1930’s, even with its’ toxic instability, has driven the development of engines capable of power to weight undreamt. Nowhere seen more striking than on the Battlefield of today, where Dieselium engines drive the metal frames surrounding armored soldiers faster and stronger than ever imagined. These Augmented Infantry...
There have always been disturbing tales of R’lyeh, what with one thing and another, and the war, they haven’t been investigated until now. I want you to take your men and find out what it’s all about. You and your soldiers of the Papuan Infantry Battalion land on the Island of R’lyeh off the New Guinea coast, little knowing what horrors and mind destroying...
As World War II rages on, the battle continues above and under the seas. When a damaged U-Boat is forced to surface and set to scuttle, Royal Marines boarding parties have to race against time and obstacles to secure the vessel and seize the precious Enigma cipher machine and radio code-books, before the stricken vessel sinks beneath the waves! This...
On December 7, 1939, the Soviet 163rd Rifle Division attacked and captured the town of Suomussalmi, Eastern Finland. The objective was to cut Finland in half in the middle, cutting off supply routes from Sweden and Norway and splitting the defence into several separate regions without mutual support. The Soviet battleplan called for the 9th Army to swiftly...
The battle of Narvik lasted from the 9th of April, to the 9th of June, 1940 in bitterly cold weather. The Allies (Norway, UK, France & Poland) fought for control of the strategically important iron ore port of Narvik against a German force composed of mountain troops (Gebirgsjägers) from Austria, paratroopers (Fallschirmjägers) and marooned sailors often...
The battle for Castle Itter was fought near the Austrian village of Itter on May 1945, in the last days of the Second World War. US soldiers joined forces with Wehrmacht riflemen, along with Polish and French prisoners and resistance fighters, to defend an Austrian castle against German SS attackers in one of the most unusual battles of the war. This...
Following the invasion at Normandy, the push into the French hinterland grew bloody and savage as the German forces dug into the obstructed bocage country, leaving the Allied progress stymied. Because of its strategic importance, the occupied city of Saint-Lô had been the target of repeated Allied bombing. The protracted resistance around the city was the...
Seize the bridges over the River Orne and Caen Canal at Bénouville and Ranville intact and hold them until relieved. - Order given to Major John Howard, D Company, Ox and Bucks for his D-Day mission, June 6th, 1944. At 0016 June 6th, 1944 the men of D Company, Ox and Bucks, landed in Horsa gliders within yards of two vital bridges spanning the River Orne...
April 1944 // Neutral Portuguese Cape Verde Islands "Urgent! Most Secret! To Reichsführer-SS Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - This is Agent Z, repeat Agent Z, I have the secret formulae, the Professor's notes provided the key, the Ultimate Weapon is here on this Cape Verde Island! They are closing in on me, send U-boat!" Warfighter: WWII Z Expansion #59 –...