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The Completist's Guide to Memoir '44: Scenarios, Expansions and Everything Else You Need
Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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My name is Geoff and I am a completist. I also love the Commands and Colors Game System.
I'm doing my utmost to have all the official scenarios and expansions for Memoir '44. Since I was making a list for my own use, I thought that I would share it on BGG for all the other addicted M'44 players.
I haven't made it through all the scenarios yet, but hopefully my information is correct. If I've missed anything or have any errors, please let me know and I'll update the list. I'll also keep it updated as new scenarios and expansions are released. C-mon DOW, let us know what's coming...
Thanks and I hope that you find this list helpful.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The base game -- this is what started it all.
One note: These scenarios have the Axis and Allied units pointed the same way. This made it difficult in some cases to distinguish units of the two armies. The online versions ( www.daysofwonder.com) have been fixed.
Scenario List:
1 - Pegasus Bridge
2 - Sainte Mere Eglise
3 - Sword Beach
4 - Pointe-Du-Hoc
5 - Omaha Beach
6 - Mont Mouchet
7 - Vassieux, Vercors
8 - Operation Cobra
9 - Operation Luttich
10 - Toulon - Campaign for Southern France
11 - Liberation of Paris
12 - Monetelimar - Campaign for Southern France
13 - Arnhem Bridge
14 - Arracourt
15 - St-Vith, Ardennes
16 - Saverne Gap, Vosges
{1o - Omaha Beach - Overlord Version}
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Days of Wonder subsequently released many scenarios which are available at their website. Note that most of the scenarios on their website are still only available in their pre-Air Pack form.
18 - Operation Goodwood (I also believe that a hardcopy version of this was available as a special preorder giveaway from DOW. Since I don't have it, I'm not sure.)
19 - Juno Beach
20 - Gold Beach
21 - Utah Beach
22 - Operation Spring
25 - Ardennes (Bastogne Corridor West)
26 - Ardennes (Bastogne Corridor East)
28 - Gallabat & Metemma
29 - Yellow Beach
30 - Tunisia
31 - Carentan (Causeway)
32 - Carentan
33 - Operation Veritable - Moyland Wood
46 - [Operation Compass] Beda Fomm
47 - [Barbarossa] Battle for Rostov
48 - [Market Garden] Valkenswaard
57 - [Barbarossa] Russian Breakout
58 - [Barbarossa] Lipovec
59 - [Barbarossa] Sea of Azov
60 - Mabatang
61 - Tenaru
62 - Bloody Ridge
63 - Clearing Matanikau River
Scenarios after this point were released after the Air Pack:
1545A - Battle of Warsaw
1310A - Longvilly Trap
4670A - Rzhev
1638A - The Battle of Hong Kong
1290A - Counter-Attack at Arras
1287A - Across the Meuse
Six new scenarios from jdrommel released in May, '09 -- from the M'44 Open in France:
5521A - Battle for Hill 178
5523A - Holding the Fort at Clervaux
5519A - Counter-Attack at Sverchkovo
5520A - Battle of Piva Forks
5522A - Gap at Antelat
5518A - Camel Blue
New scenarios from jdrommel released in May, '10 from the M'44 Open in France:
5675A - Crucifix Hill
5797A - Counter-Attack at Holtzsihr
5783A - Battle of Kalatch
6365A - Solotvyn
5735A - Guam - Landing on Yellow Beach
5866A - Deir el Shein - Act 1
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Several early scenarios were released in gaming magazines and are now available at the DOW website. These were all released before the Air Pack.
17 - St-Lo (Attack on Hill 192): in Game Trade #52. Interestingly, the copy in Game Trade has a different Historical Background from the website. It's written from the point of view of the Allied commanders. There is an error in the magazine in the description of combat engineers. They only ignore terrain in close combat.
23 - Operation Sonnenwende: in Game Trade #58. There is an error in the magazine. It states that the Allies go first. This was corrected on the DOW website and by Richard Borg on the DOW forums.
24 - Ardennes - Relief of 'Peiper': in Fire and Movement #137. The magazine is printed in black and white.
27 - Ardennes - Twin Villages: in Paper Wars #57. The magazine is printed in black and white.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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2005 brought the first wave of expansions for Memoir'44, one of which was the Terrain Pack. It contains a dizzying array of new terrain, obstacles, and landmarks. To my great disappointment, many of these rules have still not been utilized in official scenarios.
34 - [Battle of Gazala] Knightsbridge
35 - [Market Garde]Nijmegen Bridges
36 - Schwammenauel Dam
37 - [Operation Grenade] Across the River Roer
Edit: More of these rules have been used as more official scenarios have been released.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Another of the 2005 expansions was Eastern Front, which introduces the Russian Army and rules to Memoir '44.
38 - [Russo-Finnish War] Suomussalmi
39 - [Typhoon] Gates of Moscow
40 - Breakout at Klin
41 - [Stalingrad] Red Barricades Factory Complex
42 - [Kursk] Ponyri
43 - Breakout to Lisyanka
{44 - [Kursk] Prokhorovka - Overlord}
45 - [Barbarossa] River Bug
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The last expansion released at this time was the Winter/Desert Board Map which is essential to recreate the atmosphere for battles in North Africa or on the Eastern Front. It also includes Blitz Rules and Simplified Campaign Rules.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The next expansion was the Pacific Theater, which was long awaited by the Memoir'44 community. Most of us could not wait to get our hands on the Japanese army and to play out the battles on the Pacific islands.
49 - Wake Island
50 - [Guadalcanal] Matanikau River
51 - [Guadalcanal] Slopes of Mount Austen
52 - [Guam] Landings
53 - [Guam] Japanese Counterattack
{54 - [Peleliu] Landings - Overlord}
55 - [Iwo Jima] The Meat Grinder
56 - [Okinawa] Sugar Loaf and Half Moon
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Early on, DOW had stated that they would examine and approve some player created scenarios -- thus, making them official. This finally happened in 2006 when they approved three scenarios. These were released before the Air Pack.
1206 - [North Africa] Kasserine Pass: by KippRyon
1489 - [Italy] Po Valley: by Captain_Ruiz
1527 - [Normandy] Battle of the Bridgehead: by Brummbar
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Memoir '44 can also be played on a grand scale, referred to as Memoir '44 Overlord. This requires two sets of the basic game. As of yet only five offical scenarios for Overlord have been released. The rules for Overlord can be downloaded as a pdf file from the DOW website.
I would also recommend the Contents Roll Call files created by ColtsFan76 which can be found on BGG. These allow you to split the games back out after you've completed the game.
In order to play Kursk and Rzhev Overlord, you will need two copies of Eastern Front. For Peleliu Landings Overlord, you need two copies of Pacific Theater. You'll probably also want two Winter/Desert boards for the sake of realism.
1o - Omaha Beach - Overlord. M'44 Base Game
3o - Sword Beach - Overlord. This was originally available as a preorder freebie from Funagain games, but is now also online.
25o - Ardennes (Cut the Bastogne Corridor). Available at the DOW website.
44 - [Kursk] Prokhorovka - Overlord. Eastern Front.
54 - [Peleiu] Landings - Overlord. Pacific Theater. Note that this scenario uses four Pacific Villages Hexes, not four HQ-Supply tents.
Post Air Pack released on the website:
4669A - Rzhev Overlord
1341A - Moyland Wood Overlord
Edit 7/2010: My guess is that with the success of the BattleMaps that playing Overlord in this way is not going to be supported by DOW any longer. Most if not all of the new Overlord scenarios will probably be released as BattleMaps.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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In December of 2007, the Memoir '44 Air Pack was released. This expansion introduced air rules to M'44, completely changing the way that the game is played. In addition, they included updated reference cards that cover just about every rule, terrain, and nation in the M'44 system.
They also renamed and updated all of the official scenarios to include rules and terrain from the expansion. They also renumbered (and renamed)them all -- which is very annoying for anal, I mean organized, people like me. At least they included the old numbers on the scenarios. The nice thing is that the scenarios are now organized by date and theater.
Since I'm anal, I mean a completist -- even about Geeklists -- I'll include the scenarios below.
The original rules for using the Air Pack in Overlord games have been removed from DOW's website. There are revised rules with the FAQ on the Days of Wonder website and the updated rules are also available in the Operation Overlord rulebook.
Western Front
1 - Yellow Beach
2 - Pegasus Bridge
3 - Sainte-Mere-Eglise
4 - Utah Beach
5 - First Wave at Omaha
6 - Pointe-du-Hoc
7 - Gold Beach
8 - Sword Beach
9 - Juno Beach
10 - Battle of the Bridgehead
11 - Mont Mouchet
12 - Carentan Causeway
13 - Bloody Gulch
14 - Attack on Hill 192
15 - Operation Goodwood
16 - Vassieux-en-Vercors
17 - Operation Cobra
18 - Operation Spring
19 - Counter-attack on Mortain
20 - Liberation of Paris
21 - Arnhem Bridge
22 - Valkenswaard
23 - Battle of Arracourt
24 - Nijmegen Bridges*
25 - Saverne Gap*
26 - Twin Villages
27 - Saint Vith
28 - Relief of 'Peiper'
29 - Bastogne Corridor West
30 - Bastogne Corridor East
31 - Strasbourg
32 - Schwammenauel Dam
33 - Moyland Wood
34 - Across the River Roer
Mediterranean Theater
1 - Gallabat
2 - Beda Fomm
3 - Knightsbridge
4 - Tunisia
5 - Kasserine Pass
6 - Toulon
7 - Montelimar
8 - Po Valley
Eastern Front
1 - Suomussalmi
2 - Bug River
3 - Russian Breakout
4 - Lipovec
5 - Sea of Azov
6 - Gates of Moscow
7 - Battle for Rostov
8 - Breakout at Klin
9 - Red Barricades
10 - Ponyri
11 - Breakout to Lisyanka
Pacific Theater
1 - Wake Island
2 - Mabatang
3 - Tenaru
4 - Bloody Ridge
5 - Matanikau River
6 - Slopes of Mount Austen
7 - Clearing Matanikau River
8 - Guam Landings
9 - Japanese Counter-attack
10 - The Meat Grinder
11 - Sugar Loaf and Half Moon
*The original scenario numbers for these two scenarios are switched in the Air Pack manual.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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DOW released a freebie that was available at local game stores. This scenario is also available online at DOW.
Xmas '07 - Baraque De Fraiture
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Three more scenarios were released in Game Trade Magazine and are not yet available on the DOW website. These scenarios are all in the Air Pack format.
The scenarios are all labeled "GMT". I thought they should be "GTM"...
GMT 2-08 - Defense of Meiktila
GMT 3-08 - Disaster at Dieppe -- available in the Scenarios from the Front, but not in the Official scenario list (I'm not sure why).
GMT 7-08 - Battle for Warsaw
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The most recent "expansion" for M'44 is the Campaign Bag. It includes a preprinted scenario in the "Breakthrough" format, which is a deeper board than a regular scenario. It remains to be seen whether this map will be available separately or if more official "Breakthrough" format scenarios will be released.
1B - Breakthrough to Gembloux
New Breakthrough scenarios have been released on the Days of Wonder website.
5142A - Counter-attack of the BEF
4643A - The Battle of Abbeville
4625A - Coldstream Hill
4769A - Six Days Run
I'm not sure about the Air Rules for Breakthrough to Gembloux, Counter-attack of the BEF, or the Battle of Abbeville. Hopefully, this will be clarified in the FAQ.
As of Spring 2010, the Breakthrough gameboard is available in mounted form and comes with 15(!) scenarios. See below...
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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So there you have it, a complete list of offical scenarios and expansion for Memoir '44.
What else do you need to play?
On the DOW website, there is an awesome FAQ compiled by Jesse Rasmussen. It answers just about every question that can arise and is extremely well organized. This is far and away the best FAQ for a board game that I have ever seen...
Also, there is a "scenario" in the official scenarios named "Hills (Examples of Line of Sight)". This is very useful for those arguments over the LOS rules.
DOW has also started a card compendium to answer questions about the cards. I'm planning to update it to include the answers in the FAQ whenever I can find some free time...
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Wait, before you go -- there's one more thing.
You can buy an extra Command Card deck on the DOW website.
The description says: Your Memoir '44 Command Cards are exhausted?
You want a perfect match between your core game cards and "Air Sortie" Cards from the Air Pack?
Order this deck which contains the 60 command cards that came with your base game, and a perfect matching set of 2 "Air Sortie" cards.
And what completist could resist a perfect matching set...
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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This expansion allows you to play Overlord scenarios without buying a 2nd base set. It includes dice, a Overlord Command Card deck (two regular decks put together, but including the revised text for Overlord) and counters to represent the additional troops that you will need.
The Overlord rules have been revised and clarified to include rules regarding the Eastern Front, Pacific Theater and Air Pack expansions.
The downside is there is not a 2nd board so that you will need to buy some of the new Overlord battlemaps (see below) to play. Also no new Overlord Scenarios and the five official scenarios have not been revised to include the Air Pack rules.
In addition, there are no counters for airplanes, so I'm not sure of the official way to use the Air Pack with Overlord.
Update -- I've just received Operation:Overlord. It seems that DOW is going to support both ways to play Overlord -- with two sets or with Battlemaps. It also seems as though they plan to release new units and figures with the Battlemaps. Summary cards for these new units will be released separately.
I'm still not clear on how many plane minis are necessary to play Overlord scenarios with planes. It seems as if 2-3 planes/side could possible be on the board at any one time.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The Battle Map Serie - Volume 1
Contains a paper map with two Overlord Scenarios, as well as six Dodge Truck miniatures which can resupply units.
It does not include the summary cards to go with the trucks, but these will be released in the future.
Playing the scenarios requires either the Operation:Overlord expansion or two full copies of Memoir '44
There is also a website on the package -- www.memoir44.com/organizedplay. This site has all the details for the organized play program and how to order your organized play kit.
The scenarios included are:
6o - Hedgerow Hell
7o - The Cadets of Saumur
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The long awaited British expansion has finally arrived. It contains a full British army, tons of desert terrain tiles, special rules for the British and Italian Armies, and the first special weapon asset - the Anti-Tank Gun.
This expansion is independent of all the other expansions (except perhaps the desert board), including the air pack. All you need is it and the Memoir'44 base game.
As above, summary cards for the new rules and terrain will be released in a future compilation deck, but should be online sooner.
Scenarios are:
01 - Hellfire Pass - this scenario has an error in the writing. The exit markers are obviously for the Allies to exit on the Axis baseline.
02 - Sidi Rezegh Airfield
03 - Dug in at Sidi Omar
The following five scenarios are the first officially recognized scenarios that are recommended to be played together with the Simplified Campaign Rules as part of the Battle of Gazala(available with the Winter-Desert Board or online).
04 - Flanking Maneuver at Bir Hakeim
05 - Panzers Versus Grants
06 - 1st Armoured to the Rescue
07 - Into the Cauldron
08 - Escape via the Coastal Road
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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The latest Memoir '44 offering will start shipping on March 11th and is promised to change the way Memoir'44 plays. It includes three grand campaigns which are linked scenarios allowing players to take the role of either the Axis or Allies through a series of battles.
Although I haven't had a chance to play the campaigns yet, this looks great. This is everything the campaign system should be: linked battles in campaigns, linked campaigns into grand campaigns -- with real consequences for winning and losing battles that carry over to the next. The extra points and results of taking objectives looks to be brilliant. An unbelievable improvement over the shallow campaign system introduced in the Winter/Desert board.
In some cases, the scenario you play next depends on the result before, so each scenario has implications on the entire campaign.
Also includes rules for new units, smokescreens, abatis, special weapons assets, and more...
The best thing about it is that it's Volume 1!!!
You probably want to print out the scoresheets availabel on the DOW website to track your campaigns.
Note: The Battle for Normandy can be played without any expansions.
The Terrain Pack and Easter Front are required for Blitzkrieg to the West and Operation Barbarossa. The Air Pack is recommended for all the campaigns, but only required for one.
You'll also need the official errata from the M'44 Forums on the DOW website: http://www.daysofwonder.com/en/msg/?th=17236&start=0
Here are the scenarios:
Grand Campaign: Battle of Normandy
Campaign: Flanking Caen
Securing the Flank
Capturing the Crossing
Withdrawal from Hill 112
Hill 112
Campaign: The Breakout
Panzer Lehr Counters
Martinville Ridge
Operation Cobra (found in M44 and Air Pack)
Counter-Attack on Mortain (found in M44 and Air Pack)
Campaign: Taking Caen
Drive on Caen
Night Withdrawl
Pushing through Caen
Campaign: Early Falaise
Saint Martin and Bull Bridge
Mont Pincon
Closing the Gap
Campaign: Falaise
Wittmann's Final Battle
Opportunity at Falaise
Closing the Gap (same as above)
Grand Campaign: Unternehman Fall Gelb (Blitzkrieg to the West)
Bodange (Introductory Scenario)
Campaign: Airborne Operation
Fort Eben-Emael
Unternehmen Niwi
Valkenburg Airfield
Moerdijk Bridges
Campaign: The Diversion
Battle of Hannut-Merdorp
Resistance in Gembloux
Dug-In behind the Dyle
Battle of the Lys
Campaign: The Sickle-Cut
Bouvignes Bridgehead
Battle of Flavion
Defense of Le Cateau
Assault on the Wattenberg
The Crossing of the Meuse
Driving to Sedan
Camoufalged in Montherme
Breakout at Sedan
De Gaulle to the Rescue
To Crecy-sur-Serre
Combats in Stonne
Resistance in La Horgne
Dunkirk (Concluding Scenario)
Grand Campaign: Operation Barbarossa
Campaign: Barbarossa Center
Bug River (found in Eastern Front or Air Pack)
Pruzana
Smolensk
Yelnya - Timoschenko's Assault
Yelnya - Zhukhov's Assault
Kamenewo
Gates of Moscow (found in Eastern Front or Air Pack)
Breakout at Klin (found in Eastern Front or Air Pack)
Campaign: Barbarossa North
Raseiniai
Velikaya Bridgehead
Ingermanland
Luga Bridges
Ivanovskoye Bridgehead
Staraya Russa
Baltic Islands
Tikhvin
Campaign: Barbarossa South
Brody
Pripet Marsh
Russian Breakout (found in Air Pack)
Lipovec (found in Air Pack)
Kiev
Sea of Azov (found in Air Pack)
Battle for Rostov (found in Air Pack)
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Battle Map Series -- #2
The feasome Tiger Tanks are here. This set includes a battle map with two preprinted Overlord scenarios, as well as two other scenarios for a single board.
Overlord scenarios:
1 - Tigers in the Snow
2 - Operation Market Garden -- please note that there should be sandbags on each town occupied by German troops at the start of the game (official DOW errata).
Normal-sized scenarios:
3 - Villers-Bocage
4 - Saint-Aignan de Cramesnil
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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BattleMap #3 has just been announced. Instead of bonus minis, this time the battlemap includes a deck of cards. It's a special urban combat deck to supplement the command cards during a game in a city environment. Sounds intriguing...
Included two Overlord scenarios and two regular scenarios.
As usual, I'll include the specifics once I receive my copy.
I almost forgot -- it also includes all the cards to update the terrain summary deck initially released in the Air Pack.
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Geoff H
United States
Durham
North Carolina
U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
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Recently announced is a new campaign from the highly regarded jdrommel. DOW is including it with all preorders of Sword of Stalingrad and it will also be available at retailers.
I always like free stuff...
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U.S. 95th Infantry Division - The Iron Men of Metz
Venice
CA
Grant
Alabama
Grant
Alabama
Where do they go from here?
Whether or not we see more ready to play maps will depend on how well Hedgerow Hell sells.
The only real hole in the M44 system at this point is naval battles.
I would like to see naval battles myself. I think it could work, but there would have to be some rule changes and probably a new board. I could see plane squadrons acting like infantry (move further though).
Also, they can create a Campaign Book Volume 2 that focuses exclusively on the Pacific Theater (adding naval would be cool here too).
Since some of the battle maps look like they won't be reprinted, they could release the extra units and publish the scenarios of some of the battle maps.
Goldsboro
North Carolina
I think there is a lot of room for Memoir 44 to grow. One cosmetic item that would be nice would be a Western Front British army, a Desert German army in Desert Yellow. And the other armies available as army packs with not other items.
You still have Burma, China, Norway, Commando type stuff to cover. Also Italy could be covered. Perhaps a full Italian army.
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