Re: [DSII] Dozy question re: Command/Communications

At 1:11 PM -0800 12/5/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>Ah, but the Rangers were engaged in a legitemate SOF
>operation:  Climbing a cliff to kill at close range
>artillerymen who were not expecting or prepared for
>close combat.	Makes for a boring DSII game:  Either
>your guys get up the cliff and chew the gunners to
>tiny bits, or they slip and break their necks.

What all the other Commando units spread from Sword to Gold beach? 
One difference is that many of these units had some seriously heavy 
firepower available to them in very close response time. Having a 
Light or Medium cruiser on the other end of a RT line is quite handy 
when you need some heavy support fire.

>Put those same Rangers up against Panzers?  Fish food.

In your average situation, granted. Terrain can mitigate that some 
though. The 1st Airborne held on for a bloody long time considering 
their light nature against the remnants of 2 Panzer Divisions.

>From what I can understand of the operations on D-Day was that the 
Commando units were tasked with getting a good distance to the flank 
of the beaches to deal with artillery targets that would have taken 
longer for a conventional line unit to reach.

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