Below are pictures and maps of my preparations for a Battle of the Bulge game, specifically the Battle of Foy-Notre-Damme-Celles involving British, American and German forces on December 25, 1944. I started working on this in January 2024 but other projects like Cangames 2024 took priority in mid April and the game did not happen in 2024, but maybe it will in the the not too distant future.
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Overview of Battlefield
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The scenario is based on an expanded Foy-Notre-Damme scenario created by Rapid Fire expanded using an old scenario called Celles from the Avalon Hill board game Panzer Leader and a number of historical sources including Charles Whiting's book on the Battle of the Bulge: Britain's Untold Story..
This game will be played in 6mm scale with one base representing a platoon with either Spearhead rules or A Fistful of TOWs III rules.
Maps and aerial photos.
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Present day Ariel photo taken in summer.
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Map of the battle area from US Official History
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Map close up of battle area
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Scenario Maps and Rosters from various sources
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Map from Rapid Fire Foy-Notre-Damme Scenario
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Avalon Hill Panzer Leader Celles scenario
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Pictures of terrain being prepped for the battle below:
I set up the battlefield using my white Hotz Studio snow field mat, home made 6mm roads, pine trees, snow mounds and European houses.
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| Overview of the Battlefield Jan. 2024 |
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| Overview of the battlefield Jan 2024 |
Preparation of AFV, Aircraft, infantry and terrain.
These are pictures of mainly German and US AFV, infantry and aircraft plus trees, there are not many pictures of British units included as they have all been painted and based for previous scenarios.
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Sherman 105mm, Kubelwagon FOO, and British 5.5" gun
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| Lots of pine trees required |
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US 76mm Shearmans
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US P-38 and Shermans suffered some damage in the post
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US P-38 fighter bomber aircraft
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German 6mm Armoured Cars, by GHQ, CinC and H&R
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German 6mm SS infantry in camo by Adler
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Heroics and Ross 6mm German infantry in Camo
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Re-basing GHQ Stug III F Assault guns
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| StugIII G winter camouflage front by GHQ |
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Stug IIIGs in winter camouflage rear by GHQ
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Final board updates before take-down
I modified the road network at the South end of the board to better fit the historical maps in mid February by adding an additional lateral paved road and town, plus a canopy forest. I had ordered the winter pine canopy forest from Les Hammond at Terrain Shed Wargaming who I highly recommend. See: https://terrainshed.co.uk/ Les provided me a special order changing the size and altering the forest so a bit more of he green pine showed through the snow.
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| The standard Terrain Shed canopy winter forests |
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| More of the look I wanted with green showing through the snow |
By April 2024 I was still working on getting American AFV and infantry painted plus more of Les' new canopy winter pine forests had arrived from the UK. These are the last pictures of the updated road network before take-down on April 16, 2024 to allow room for Cangames 2024 preparation.
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| South end of board with extra town sector and Canopy forest, Feb. 16 2024 |
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| Updated road network April 16, 2024 |
Possible new winter Ardennes mat to use when I run this game.
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