D-DAY
I really hope I have captured some of the atmosphere of this battle. Highlights (if that is the right word) that I wanted to include:

• the carnage of Omaha Beach
• the raid of the Rangers on the cliffs to the west of Omaha
• the counter attack of the 17SS Panzergrenadiers at Carentan
• the dangerous airborne landings

To do this I created some custom units and borrowed some tiles from chris10 and Puma (thanks, Chris and Puma for your permission!)

1. Hedgehogs on the beaches
2. concrete bunkers - think SPR
3. airborne transports with a MV of zero. that way they drop in different locations each time the scenario is played and can't be used to go too far inland by the player, which would be totally unhistorical!
4. beach tiles

So the scale of the beach landings is a bit dodgy. Really, a tactical game is needed to portray it properly but I hope it comes off to some degree in Maelstrom.

The 17SS PG counterattack is fearsome but manageable. The 101 and 82 do a creditable job behind the lines but will suffer losses. The rangers are just brilliant taking out the big guns! Considering how they suffered enormous casualties at Anzio they deserve some kudos! Besides, they are the unit in SPR.

In a slightly unhistorical twist, the landings at Utah are much harder than in reality. It will not be easy to get off the beach there and the German gun emplacements tend to rain hell down until taken out.