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kord -> Commando Raid on Dieppe - Testers Wanted (8/14/2001 3:35:00 PM)
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Hi all,
I finally went through... Finished my first Scenario ! ![]("biggrin.gif")
It recreates the Assault of N°4 Commando (Lord Lovat, CO) against the 813th Army Coastal Battery at VARENGEVILLE (Codenamed "HESS"). That was the only completely successful action of the whole Dieppe tragedy...
Here is the intro text file :
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_________'FOR VALOUR' *
________August 19, 1942*
______Operation 'Cauldron' *
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Designer :_Kord*
Email :____kordolius@free.fr*
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This recreates the story of No.4*
Commando's action in the Dieppe*
Raid of August 19, 1942.*
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This scenario is designed to be*
played on the UK side against AI.*
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Duration :_30 turns*
Options : All ON, except C&C*
Comments :*
The goal is to destroy the target*
AND reembark. Don't forget to plan*
for these 2 missions.*
Use carefully your mortar support.*
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BACKGROUND*
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The stubby finger of Lord Lovat*
stabbed at a dot on the map. *
_"This is the objective. It is a*
_battery of six 155mm French Fillion*
_guns"*
_"We land at 0450hrs, we withdraw
_at 0850hrs. Only the total
_destruction of the target is
_acceptable." *
_"Oh, by the way, it's at Dieppe"*
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The commando knew that if they*
failed and the six German six-inch*
howitzers bombarded the narrow*
Dieppe approach there would*
be a great disaster.*
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For this operation No.4 Commando*
was split into two groups - one of*
88 men commanded by Major Mills-*
Roberts, the second of 164 men led*
by Colonel Lovat.*
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Their landing beaches were designa*
ted ORANGE 1 and ORANGE 2. *
Mills-Roberts group would land on*
Orange1, force a passage through*
one of two gully's, make its way*
to a fringe of trees some 300 *
yards from the battery and wait.*
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Lovat's group, far larger, would*
take a longer route to approach the*
battery from the rear. Upon ar-*
rival they would fire a white very*
light, and both parties would*
advance.*
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Mills-Roberts group on Orange1 suf-*
fered a slight setback. The first*
gully they had attempted to force*
was impassable. *
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Finding a second gully close-by *
also blocked, he decided to blast*
a way through with a Bangalore*
pipe-torpedo. The noise of*
Bangalores was covered by a low*
level air attack on the battery at*
the same time*
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They had advanced some 500 yards*
when a gigantic roaring explosion*
virtually shook the air. The bat-*
tery had opened fire on what by*
now was the beginning of Dieppe
Tragedy.*
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Changing his plans, Mills-Roberts*
immediately ordered an assault on*
the "Hess" Battery*
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SOURCES*
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Canadian Military Headquarters *
(CMHQ) Reports 1940-1948:*
www.dnd.ca*
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British Forces:*
british-forces.com*
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I'm now looking for a few goodwilling people to test and help me to finish my work.
Interested ? Drop a mail at :
kordolius@free.fr
Best regards,
Kord
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skukko: err, yes there are objectives, but only for Germans... Forgot to set them on my last british OOB correction... I'll correct it ASAP... Do you want to have a new version ?
"AC are useless"... I agree with you, but I did not find the way to improve the cannon efficiency.![]("frown.gif")
I will send the new version ASAP.
Kord
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