Operation Switchback WTO (id:#59180)
Prior Publication: SL 218
Scheldt Estuaries, The Netherlands
1944-10-06 (10 others)
CH 76: Hurtgen Hell (Critical Hit # 4.1)
SL 220: Clearing The Breskens Pocket (ASL Digest # 6.03)
GD 2: Grim Warning (Gun Duel 2001)
TAP #7: A Vicious Melee (Total Axis Pack I: Eastern Front Firestorm)
FT105: Smashing Into Vlasotince (From The Cellar Pack #3)
MwT-29: Popov's Injection (Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation: Monkeys with Typewriters Vol.III)
CTBP: Clearing The Breskens Pocket Campaign (Coastal Fortress)
U36: Operation Switchback (Rivers to the Reich)
U38: Clearing the Breskens Pocket (Rivers to the Reich)
#1: Prelude To Huertgen Hell (Huertgen Hell)
SL 220: Clearing The Breskens Pocket (ASL Digest # 6.03)
GD 2: Grim Warning (Gun Duel 2001)
TAP #7: A Vicious Melee (Total Axis Pack I: Eastern Front Firestorm)
FT105: Smashing Into Vlasotince (From The Cellar Pack #3)
MwT-29: Popov's Injection (Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation: Monkeys with Typewriters Vol.III)
CTBP: Clearing The Breskens Pocket Campaign (Coastal Fortress)
U36: Operation Switchback (Rivers to the Reich)
U38: Clearing the Breskens Pocket (Rivers to the Reich)
#1: Prelude To Huertgen Hell (Huertgen Hell)
Designer: Martin Snow
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Overview:
Antwerp had fallen unharmed into Allied hands. All that prevented the use of the port was the German flak and artillery that lined the narrow waterway linking the North Sea to Antwerp: the Scheldt Estuary. Hitler assigned General Eberding as Fortress Commander of the estuary's south shore. OKW permitted flooding of much of the subsealevel terrain and gave Eberding the 64th Infantry Division, totally composed of Russian front combat veterans and heavily armed with support weapons. The Canadian First Army had twice tried to cross the Leopold Canal and reach the Scheldt, and twice had been rebuffed. Today the Canadians would try againAttacker: Canadian (7th Brigade, Canadian 3rd Infantry Division)
Defender: German (1073rd Grenadier Regiment, 64th Infantry Division)
17 turns
Players: 2 OBA: Both Night: No| Unit Counts: |
| Squads: A:33.0 D:22.0 |
| AFVs: A:3 Wasp x 3 |
| AFVs: D:0 |
| Guns: A:4 OML 3-in. Mortar x 2 D:2 OML 2-in. Mortar x 3 OSB 4.2-in. Mortar x 2 12cm GrW 42 8cm GrW 34 |
| Misc Rules: | All buildings are Wooden. A: Air3, FTV3, Raft16 |
| Map Board(s): | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 16 |
| Overlays: | NONE |
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| Action | Date |
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| SRenaudin Modified the Attacker's Guns | 2022-08-04 16:23:21 |
| SRenaudin Modified the unit counts | 2022-08-04 16:23:21 |
| hoxson1 Modified the Theatre | 2021-03-08 18:08:27 |
| hoxson1 Modified the misc. rules | 2018-03-14 17:10:13 |
| hoxson1 Modified the overlays | 2017-05-30 13:35:27 |
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| Estimated Play time: | 26.8 hours | |
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| ROAR Data: (as of November 2021) Operation Switchback [Confirmed] |
| [A] Canadian | 0 |
| [D] German | 0 |