What about a D-Day plus game? Some US operation based stuff like a Brecourt Manor kinda thing.
or even a st mere eglise game
What about a D-Day plus game? Some US operation based stuff like a Brecourt Manor kinda thing.
This is what I'm gunning for, although the entire thing didn't actually take a day. Wasn't it about 40 minutes?
But an assault on a gun battery which has MG Support would be fun!
I still think another D Day game would be great, nothing that says you couldn't look at it from the point of view of...from a macroscopic view it was D Day (Fact) but from a microscopic point of view, kinda the level that we play at (20 - 30 a side) there are ENDLESS fictional D Day scenarios. Even just a Allies attack defending Germans in the morning or until they capture position followed by Germans counter attacking to reclaim the position in the afternoon with a bit more of a juicy scenario round it would be super...maybe a Hill of some description e.g D Day: Battle for Hill 26 (that's a random number by the way, I have no idea who actualy captured it etc etc.)
Plus come on everyone loves D Day scenarios 
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Totally agree Spiers.
If we play platoon level actions rather than obsessing about fighting entire campaigns over a weekend then D-day lone would keep us airsofters busy for a good few months if we played every week.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
So it's agreed then CiA just do D Day games for ever and ever and ever
I do think that, looking at it that way would be great.
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
Well as announced we've a PBI micro level St Lo game just for US and SS types next year so you US airborne already have something on the card specifically for you.. so you're not that hard done by.
As well as the two planned I'm hoping to do 'Oosterbeek' if possible at the historical time next year (i.e. September) and focus on lonsdale force in the last days of the battle for Arnhem on the defensive rather than the obvious choice of the assault on the bridge.
Its also easier with a micro approach to have the Germans on the offensive. After D-day most 'campaigns' quite obviously have the axis on the retreat. When you start looking at a smaller more local area then a local counter attack means that you can write a scenario where the US are legging it being chased by a panzer division but in July rather than Decemeber!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Haha Spiers!
Bloody hell Gadge, this is a CiA forum section, not a PBI one! 
CiA games will always be a mix - it depends on what we get enthused by and what takes our fancy!
The Husky game was a macro game as the site lent itself to an island, had a volcano in the middle and meant we could start with landing assaults and get as far as Etna (and leave more to continue the scenario at a later date!).
Next year's game at UCAP will be based on reality but very much a 'what-if' game.
In contrast Autumn Mist will be a micro game in a concentrated location with authenticity and real-time to the fore, cunningly chosen so that major player groups can participate without kit changes.
And late summer game next year will be the most authentic WW2 game yet played in the UK.
I'd love to do an Operation Sealion some day - Germans vs Brits (forces & civilians). A 'what-if' to be sure...
You got a name for next years summer game? 
AH Goooo on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on!
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
Operation Cocksnot - Hitler's Sneeze.
CiA should start a competition to suggest the best name for it... no suggestions as to what the scenario will actually be... just random names... from which they MUST choose one... 
Heh... if CiA don't do that PBI may have to... 
(three times a ghey fight!)
I know that a pacific theatre game suggestion was thrown around...anymore on that?
I'd like to tell you about it but i think i've been banned....
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I think I can say without contraception that a Pacific theatre game won't be on the CiA calendar for 2009 - we pushed the limits with Russian and Mediterranean games in 2008, so I think consolidation around what we already have is the sensible way forward...
I'd like to tell you about it but i think i've been banned....
This forum doesn't 'do' banning - now then, binning is a different matter
* heads to PBI section looking for upcoming Iwo Jima game *
PBI may be considering one for 2009 but at the moment it does seem rather unlikely we've kind of organised what the two games we're planning to do this year already are and they're not CBI or PTO.
I have been collecting Jap kit myself... erm... well okay I have some puttees... they're original 1941 dated IJA ones though!
If you recall we've been discussing it for some time and trying to work out a 'lookalike' jap kit list.
Been on the back boiler for over six months now.
In fact Rich has been researching how to get together
a cheap jap one.
We were going to do chindits and merrils marauders in burma.
I just cant seem to find the thread now... i know we had pages on it, it might be in general discussion.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Here you go.
We get the interest we may do it
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Stalingrad
Africa or Crete (the rock would suit them)
Monte Casino
Anzio
Oosterbeek/Wolfheze
Nijmagen/Eindhoven
Oosterbeek/Wolfheze
Work in progress, earmarked for PBI for Nov but again not CiA.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Oosterbeek/Wolfheze
Work in progress, earmarked for PBI for Nov but again not CiA.
So not a Weekender then ?