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Widerstandsnest-61 WN-61 1 88mm Pak in pillbox 1 50mm Pak in concrete emplacement 1 tobruk with an R35 tank turret 2 tobruks with MGs flamethrowers cited from: http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/omaha/en_defense.php http://www.omaha-beach.org/The%20Beach/TheBeach.html https://www.facebook.com/ddaytoursofnormandy/photos/a.669629256416204.1073741867.190817760964025/669629273082869/?type=3&permPage=1 eleven photos, incl Renault turret FoW Articles at Battlefront: Push 'em Back http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=109&art_id=3965 5cm KwK Nest (XBX03) http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=2427 http://brooklynwargaming.com/tag/5-cm-kwk-39/ https://www.facebook.com/ddaytoursofnormandy/photos/a.669629256416204.1073741867.190817760964025/669629423082854/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/herbnl/8386533513/ http://www.faehrtensucher.com/normandie-1944/landungsstr%C3%A4nde/omaha-beach-teil-1/ The Colleville exit, only a path, was protected by three pockets of resistance. WN 60 had two 7.5-mm guns, a bunker with a Renault tank turret, four 5-cm grenade launcher and a 2-cm Flak. WN 61 was equipped with a 88-mm cannon and a 5.5-mm gun and Renault tank turret bunkers and 5-cm mortars. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y68oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=Widerstandsnest+61%29&source=bl&ots=zd-8oXgGxm&sig=PSzTIZS5wwJs7O3jj2TE-QHwmXM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ysIeVeiLFtHdoATfnYCwBg&ved=0CGUQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=Widerstandsnest%2061)&f=false http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/omaha/en_defense.php http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/normandie6/noreng6.htm http://www.atlantikwall-frankreich.de/b04_basse_normandie/s05_omaha/s05_omaha.htm WN 61 Centrally located on the famous Omaha beach landing of resistance was responsible, together with the further west WN 62 for the high losses of landing here American troops. Equipped was the resistance nest with a 88mm Pak guns, a 5cm KwK and two MG ring stands. https://books.google.com/books?id=e0XjBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT190&lpg=PT190&dq=Widerstandsnest-61&source=bl&ots=-c8QNJjLjH&sig=O4ytiH-tY_rjDbeHVbayJl9daw4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ssMeVbCUO4XyoAT5i4LwCA&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Widerstandsnest-61&f=false from "Tank Turret Fortifications", By Neil Short ISBN-13: 9781847973672 Publisher: Crowood Press, Limited http://www.amazon.com/Tank-Turret-Fortifications-Neil-Short/dp/1861266871 http://www.scarybiscuitsstudios.com/2014/06/d25567-citizen-soldiers-in-france.html http://www.flickriver.com/search/tokina+60+300/recent/ http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/16110/great-crusade-part-29-d-day https://www.gmtgames.com/p-276-combat-commander-battle-pack-3-normandy.aspx http://gizmodo.com/12-pieces-of-tech-that-turned-the-tide-at-normandy-1577142011 http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/535873/so-what-your-favorite-normandy-scenario Don't know about the accuarcy of this site, but the images are kewl: http://www.moddb.com/mods/normandy-1944-european-theater1/images/german-emplacements-pt-2-88cm-pak-43-nest

Saw some old posts that indicated FoW activity a while back, but nothing recent, and no calendar events at the store's web site http://mightyfortress.com/

This is the event for April: Flames of War 15mm WWII When: Sat, April 18, 6pm – 11pm Where: Dice Age Games, East 4th Plain Boulevard, Vancouver, WA, United States (map) Description: Mission: Counterattack (Mobile Battle), 1.500 pts, See page 287 of the small rulebook for details. (note: usually covers either MW or LW or both) I plan to be there with Russian lists, either Mixed Tankovy (MW), or Red Army Strelkovy (MW and LW)

Battlefront "State of the Union" http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4814 These are the highlights, but if you want the full story (with photos), then go to the web page, link avbove. Mid-Feb: WWI, LW: Nachtjaeger - new book - a British Rifle Company, - British Comet Platoon, - British Cromwell Platoon, - and a German Panther G/Jagdpanther Platoon box. End of March: WWII: - Updated version of Open Fire! April: Vietnam: - Mekong Delta with the new Brown Water Navy book End of April WWII: - Colours of War, our brand new painting system June WWII - Berlin, newest Late-war book - Unique equipment: German Kleinpanzer Wanze and Waffentrager - Soviet IS-2 with Bedspring Armour - Soviet 203mm obr 1931 gun and its building destroyer rule August WWI, The Great War - book to cover the German Infanteriekompanie and Stosskompanie October: Cold War Gone Hot - book- Fulda Gap - models: M1-Abrams, A10-Thunderbolts, T-72s and BMP-mounted infantry - later, main vehicles of every nation - October is just the start and 2016 will have more books and additional miniatures. December WWII Pacific - first of two Pacific books, one for the US and one for the Japanese. Ongoing: - flow of new terrain coming. New Buildings: ...new project that coincides with the release of the Berlin book. Big city buildings...we have been engineering some very clever plastics that will allow for you to take your Flames Of War table to a whole new scale as buildings get taller, longer and deeper as well as battle damaged if you want. The modular system will bring city fighting to life like never before, and no two tables need ever look the same.

On MAR 26, I will be bringing MW Soviet Motostrelkovy with tanks @ 1710. In April I will have MW Soviet Mixed Tankovy, 1710 pts. I will also have EW Strelkovy 1500 and 1550 pts.

LG, good tip. I will try. Don't know how good I will do at hand pianted hammer and sickle.

I will not be at Enfilade. On call that weekend, so staying close to Portland.

After a brief chat on what we would like to do on Thurdays, a small consenus is: For Thursday Night casual/pickup games, 1) April and May : Getting ready for Enfilade (see post Enfilade 2015 Fow Tournament (official thread) We will have a focus on Mid-War Army lists to try out lists for Enfilade, (in May). MW Army Lists should be from these books: North Africa (pub 2009) Eastern Front (pub 2009) If you show up with one or more armies, the optimal list is 1710 pts (Enfilade tourny points max) Some of us also have lists for 1250, 1500, 1550 and 1750, if you are so inclined, or have not yet painted your tournament list to full size. 2) Enfilade! : 23 May 3) After Enfilade, in June and for a while beyond, we will be on campaign: Firestom: Overlord. -- These LW armies will come from "Rising Tide" and "Atlantik Wall" -- FIrst Game will be Saturday, the Sixth of JUNE! (time TBD). For more info at the FoW website, go to http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4495

Printable color PDF is here: http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/Modelling/Soviet-Banners.pdf For any other PDF that you saw on the Battlefront web site, add one or more key words to this google search: In the google search box, type: site:http://www.flamesofwar.com filetype:pdf

Next Thursday, I will have both EW and MW Russian Strelkvy. My next army lists will depend on the discussion on the campaign topic. If you don't have enough distractions, yet, you can ceck out the FoW State of the Union at http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4814

Lazarus, last Thursday, you mentioned using the free Firestorm: Overlord as the basis for our campaign. Information and downloads on that campaign are here: Firestorm: Overlord, at http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4495 and a battle report is here: http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4184 Next steps: - talking schedule, - sizing up participation, and - logistics (armies already avail, armies to paint, terrain on hand, terrain needed). I am interested in filling some gaps in armies, as I only have one army at the moment, and they will not be in this campaign - Russians. I can also build out some terrain, if we are short.

Anyone have any news on this? This is the link that I had http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FoW_Northwest It was working 1 or 2 weeks ago. Now there's nuttin'

Zeke, I hope you don't mind that I started a new thread on pickup games, to prevent a muddle here on the campaign topic: http://www.ordofanaticus.com/index.php?/topic/24154-fow-pickup-games-gg/

RE: Pickup games: Either EW or MW, for me. Can adapt my EW strelkovy to a MW Strel list. Currently modding my EW russians to MW. Should have my preferred MW Strelkovy list by last week of March. If someone has a EW GE Czech Panzerkompanie, I would like to try that out, or fight against it -- e.g., -- BR vs. GE @ Battle of Arras, or -- FR vs. GE @ River Ourthe, Dinant, or Siege of Lille -- Belgians vs. Rommel (Chasseurs Ardennais at Chabrehez) I am considering building out GE Czech Panzerkompanie modeled on the 7. Pz Div., for EW, Blitzkrieg. However, if someone wants to loan me an army, I have the following books and can try out a non-Russian army: LW: Grey Wolf, Red Bear, Desperate Measures MW:Eastern Front EW: Rising Sun, Barbarossa

I will be arriving approx on time at GG - perhaps 6:00 to 6:15. Bringing Strelkovy, EW only, (with some tanks), Army lists for both 1500 and 1555 points.

Zeke, I copied your comments from the Campaign thread to here, to prevent a muddle: "...I would like to know what period people are playing for pick-up games cause I can bring stuff for any period & any side, I just don't want to cart all of it. 2 armies I do regularly, 3 I can do, but all 10 every thursday? No Way."

Update since my prev post: I will be arriving approx on time at GG - perhaps 6:00 to 6:15. Bringing Strelkovy, EW only, (with some tanks), Army lists for both 1500 and 1555 points.

I will be arriving late at GG - perhaps 7:20 or 7:30. Have a late meeting at work. Bringing Strelkovy, EW only, (with some tanks), Army lists for both 1500 and 1555 points.

OK, Focusing on the Firestorm campaigns, unless someone has one of the Boxed Firestorm sets (Bargation or Market-Garden), then the options are the limited to the online resources: http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4501 Firestorm: Norway (EW) Firestorm: Caen (LW) Firestorm: Overlord (--huge--) (LW) Firestorm: Cherbourg & St. Lô (LW) Firestorm: Lorraine (LW) Firestorm: Greece (EW, Burning Empires) Firestorm: Warsaw (LW) Firestorm: Villers-Bretonneux (WWI) Firestom Boxed Sets: Firestorm Market Garden: Downloadable Resources http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&art_id=1938 I don't think that this can be played without the box set. These boxed sets appear to be discontinued and out of stock in the popular outlets. Flames of War: Firestorm Market Garden out-of-stock: http://www.thewarstore.com/product53451.html Flames of War: Firestorm Bagration Perhaps a used copy at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Flames-War-Bagartion-Firestorm-Campaign/dp/B001TIDA4U Bagration and Market Garden Might be available on eBay I took a quick look at the nationalities and types of forces for a few of the online Firestorm Campaigns: Firestorm Lorraine: Mini Campaign http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3303 US Armor US Inf Free french Armor (2DB) GE Panzer GE PzGren GE Inf Comment on the FoW page: " Ideally you should play forces from Blood Guts and Glory for this Campaign and the other forces from Turning Tide and Earth and Steel. There are also good Briefings on the 17. SS-Panzergrenadierdivision “Götz von Berlichingen” and French 2éme Division Blindée on the Flames of War website. Likewise if you all agree you should also play using only M4, M4A1, M4A1 (76mm) and all M4A3 versions since other Shermans had not yet entered service." Firestorm: Caen http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3924 BR Para BR Arm BR Inf CAN Inf CAN Arm GE Wehrmacht Panzer GE Wehrmacht Inf GE SS Panzer GE SS PanzerGren Firestorm: Cherbourg & St. Lô http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4550 US Armor US Inf (Leg, Para, Ranger) US Mech/Cav GE Wehrmacht Panzer (Pz Lehr, StuG & captured French) GE Wehrmacht Inf GE SS Panzer GE SS PanzerGren So I suggest you look at the details, spread the word, and decide when we want to get a group vote. I have no preference, since I only have Russians painted, at the moment. I have unpainted germans, so I could paint them up for MW or LW: -- 5xTiger IE (Panzers Marsh!) (MW, LW) -- 5x StuG G Plt (MW, LW) -- 5x Panzer IV J (LW) -- 1x PanzerGren Platoon (Gepanzert)

During the FoW tournament in PDX (at GG), there was some discussion about doing a campaign. Do you have an interest? There are lots of options. 1) Firestorm 2) Aces 3) Axis of Attack 4) Pre-baked, on the web 5) Home-grown ("roll your own") At the Battlefront site, there are lots of resources: Flames Of War Campaigns Landing Page http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4501

I will be doing FoW again, bringing my EW Russian Strelkovy, with some new tanks to try out. I feel a tug pulling me toward Motostrelkovy...but not quite there yet. Also building out the Russians to have a MW list later in March.

I will be doing FoW again, bringing my EW Russian Strelkovy, with some new tanks to try out. I feel a tug pulling me toward Motostrelkovy...but not quite there yet. Also building out the Russians to have a MW list later in March.

I will not be playing FoW this Thursday. I WILL be at GG, but i will be playing Munchkin in the Critical Sip area. Next week, I will be doing FoW again, bringing my EW Russian Strelkovy, with some new tanks to try out. I feel a tug pulling me toward Motostrelkovy...but not quite there yet.

Many thanks to SteveM for putting this together. I also appreciate the terrain that Steve and other people brought and setup to make this event a smashing success!

Looking forward to learning the details...