Overlord Introduction to scenarios

[asl3d]

AC Ovza A77 Introduction 5

[GiveWarAchance]

That sounds like a nasty battle. That tank give the paratroops too much advantage and they even shot the hapless soldiers surrendering. I do like this setting in the bocage with a farm and what not. Very pleasant place for brutal no quarter warfare.

Are these info panels the same as in the ASL game? I have never played that game but really like how you have these historical stories for each battle.

[asl3d]

All the information panels are the same as the original ones published for the Advanced Squad Leaders board game. The only change is the defending commander's "reserves," intended to balance the scenario and help the AI, allowing it to potentially win as well.

[asl3d]

The new current pack of Scenarios for Heroes and Leaders mod is already available in this same "thread", in the post # 1:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4374224
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[GiveWarAchance]

thanks asl3d
I read about the Pouppeville battle on a history website and it matched the game info so it is good info.
I had a problem reading the ingame info panels because they zip by when I am only 1/3 through reading it.
Options has "message speed" which was at 6 and I put it up to 9 so hopefully that gives me a few more seconds to read the information. Those info panels are super interesting.

Or I could probably find the info panels in these threads and read it more casually that way without time pressure.

edit: where can I find the AE info panels in which thread? I tried looking but my internet is weak and takes a long time to load a single in a thread so it is hard to search around.

[asl3d]

I just read your AAR on the Pouppeville scenario. It's excellent, as always.
I was also pleased that your approach to the American paratrooper attack is similar to mine when I was designing the scenario. Although it's difficult for the paratroopers to reach the town center, their strength ultimately prevails over the German defenders.
Thank you very much for your AAR.
Congratulations.

Regarding your question about the information panels, I can confirm that you can find all the information panels for all published scenarios in the "Documents Pack." Specifically, the information panel for the Pouppeville scenario can be found in the file "H&L Scenarios Collection American Eagles 20190914."

[asl3d]

AC Ovz AP29 Introduction 1

[GiveWarAchance]

oh ya the documents pack. Thank you. I will look in there for info panels.

About the AAR, it is just started. I have more pictures and will show the full battle and results.
I will do more AARs. That Pouppeville battle is very small but intense with very heavy losses on both sides in a pleasant little town surrounded by big trees. We suffered a catastrophic double ambush during the approach but we still made into the town for the short sharp battle.

[asl3d]

oh ya the documents pack. Thank you. I will look in there for info panels.

About the AAR, it is just started. I have more pictures and will show the full battle and results.
I will do more AARs. That Pouppeville battle is very small but intense with very heavy losses on both sides in a pleasant little town surrounded by big trees. We suffered a catastrophic double ambush during the approach but we still made into the town for the short sharp battle.

Your AAR (Advanced Action Report) over the Pouppeville scenario is simply spectacular.

The narration of the paratroopers' and the Germans' courageous actions is wonderful.

It feels like you're inside the village, witnessing the battle firsthand.

By the way, McAuliffe is wrong. Sergeant Fournier is a hero.

Congratulations!

[asl3d]

AC Ovz AP29 Introduction 2

[GiveWarAchance]

I don't know anything about Sergeant Fournier historically. Is he a famous commander?
I only know he stayed pinned down in the field with 2 shaken glider squads so it was one whole team I was missing from my attack.

[asl3d]

Whenever possible, I use the real names of heroes from the various armies that participated in World War II.
In this case, William Grant Fournier (June 21, 1913 – January 13, 1943) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration (the Medal of Honor) for his actions in World War II.
Fournier was raised by his aunts and uncles in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island and enlisted in the Navy in 1931, at the age of 18, where he served for nearly a decade before retiring.
Fournier re-enlisted in the military before the beginning of World War II, this time in the Army, from Winterport, Maine in September 1940, and by January 10, 1943, was serving as a Sergeant in Company M, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. During a Japanese attack on that day, at Mount Austen, Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, he refused an order to withdraw after many men in his unit had been killed or wounded and, with fellow soldier Technician Fifth Grade Lewis Hall, stayed behind to man a machine gun. Hall was killed at the gun, while Fournier was badly wounded and died three days later. Both men were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on June 5, 1943.
Fournier, aged 29 at his death, was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sergeant Fournier's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
"For gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. As leader of a machinegun section charged with the protection of other battalion units, his group was attacked by a superior number of Japanese, his gunner killed, his assistant gunner wounded, and an adjoining gun crew put out of action. Ordered to withdraw from this hazardous position, Sgt. Fournier refused to retire but rushed forward to the idle gun and, with the aid of another soldier who joined him, held up the machinegun by the tripod to increase its field action. They opened fire and inflicted heavy casualties upon the enemy. While so engaged both these gallant soldiers were killed, but their sturdy defensive was a decisive factor in the following success of the attacking battalion."

[asl3d]

AC Ovz AP29 Introduction 3

[GiveWarAchance]

Fournier was a hero after all. It is unusual he died 3 days later instead of being cruelly bayoneted by angry Japanese while fatally wounded at the gun. He went full Rambo there at the end which is definitely the finest a soldier can be.

So he was at Guadalcanal instead of at Pouppeville so i guess you mix and match officers as leaders. That's fine. But I will misunderstand and think they are behaving poorly in the game sometimes or very heroically when actually not. Like the German officer Winkler may or may not have been an outstanding Teutonic warrior courageously charging into enemy fire without regard for his own safety.

Thanks for the info. I will assume for the sake of the story it was a different Fournier on the Western Front instead of the heroic one in the Pacific. That happened a lot with same names but totally different soldiers.

[asl3d]

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[asl3d]

Whenever possible, I've taken the opportunity to give the Leaders and Heroes in the "Heroes and Leaders mod" the real names of the heroes who fought in WWII, such as Sergeant William Grant Fournier and Wehrmacht officer Winkleral, whom you mention.

Indeed, Hauptmann Friedrich Konrad Winkler was the Kompanieführer (Company Commander) of the 6. Kompanie / Grenadier-Regiment 577 during the battles at Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad. In January 1943, his regiment was destroyed. Winkler was captured in February and he died shortly after his capture, at the age of 34 in POW camp Beketowka.
Friedrich Konrad Winkler was born on the 22nd of August, 1909 in Worms (one of the oldest cities in Germany situated on the Rheine river). He was a professional soldier with 12 years of service known in the German Army as a "Zwölfender". He was promoted to Oberleutnant on the 1st of November 1941 and later promoted to Hauptmann on the 1st December 1942. He transferred to the 305. Infanterie-Division in mid 1942 from his previous unit Infanterie-Regiment 56. He initially served in the Stabskompanie of Infanterie-Regiment 577 (from the 15th of October Grenadier-Regiment 577) but later he took command of 6th company in the Regiment during the fighting in Barrikady Gun Factory in northern Stalingrad. The Grenadier-Regiment 577 was destroyed in January 1943 in Stalingrad. Friedrich Konrad Winkler was captured in Stalingrad in Febuary and died soon after, in the age of 34.
He was awarded the Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, Iron Cross 2nd Class, 1st Class Wound Badge in Silver, Medal for the Winter Campaign in Russia 1941 / 1942, and the War Merit Cross 2nd Class. As you can see, the Infantry Assault Badge is broken. Breaking the assault badge was commonly done by the Stalingrad veterans as a indication that earning the assault badge in Stalingrad was a different level of achievement than earning it somewhere else.

[asl3d]

AC Ovz AP29 Introduction 4

[GiveWarAchance]

Aw poor Winkler. Thanks asl3d.

Sounds like he was a hero of the Barrikady battles. It is sad his soldiers and him were wiped out. The Russians were cruel to POWs and very few survived. Winkler looks like a nice leader very loyal and brave. I hope he was able to enjoy the Barrikady battle while he was able to. He also looks identical to my grade 7 teach Mel Jurussic who was a goofy person.

I wonder what is the wooden palisade behind him? I never saw that before in Stalingrad photos.
And I wonder what Winkler is looking at so intensely? Maybe at the area they are going to assault into so he is anticipating the upcoming battle.

[asl3d]

AC Ovz AP29 Introduction 5

[asl3d]

The new pack of Scenarios for Heroes and Leaders mod is already available in the thread “Scenarios for Heroes and Leaders mod,” in the post # 1:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4374224
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