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czarejs

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  1. Afaik, you place the fortifications on the map in the 3d map preview. When you first purchase them and go into the preview they are on the map. Then you move them around in there. They stay where you put them. Two problems..... first with the bunkers I didn't see any way to purchase them singularly. You get a combination of concrete and wooden bunkers which would be out of place. Second, is there a sandbag wall fortification? You might need a mod of the low stone wall to make it into sandbags.

  2. The allies will obviously be infantry with engineers and have arty support. DD tanks didn't make it to Omaha afaik. Then after a set period of time the 2nd wave will follow and then another wave. Their objective will be to exit the beach and mop up all resistance beyond the cliff top and then to exit at the rear of the map.

    Para,

    According to Osprey's Campaign Series D-Day Volume 1 Omaha Beach

    "Four companies of DD tanks were supposed to be launched.......swim the 5,000 yards to shore by H-Hour-0630hrs. The naval officer in charge of the ......DD tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion.....reached agreement with the tank commander to land the tanks directly onto the beach. The LCT's landed the DD tanks on Dog Green and Dog Red beaches starting at 0629hrs. Company B, coming into the beach at the Vierville draw(Exit D-1), came under heavy anti-tank gunfire...... Company A with the normal M4 tanks with wading trunks landed about the same time, so that 40 out of 48 tanks made it to shore.

    The situation to the west was much worse. The two captains from the 741st Tank Battalion outranked the senior naval officers and insisted that the DD tanks be launched as ordered 5000 yards offshore.... The DD tanks immediately encountered problems on entering the water.....wind and sea conditions sank all but two from Co. B......LCT-600 decided to drop the remaining three on the beach. As a result of the 32 DD tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion only five made it to shore on Easy Red Beach.....Following the two doomed companies of DD tanks was Co. A with M4A1 tanks with wading trunks..... only 18 of it 48 tanks reached shore and three were knocked out by anti-tank guns almost immediately. In spite of their losses, the tanks attempted to carry out their mission and began engaging various bunkers and defensive works."

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