Scenario
1am, 6th June 1944. The young conscripts that make up the 191. Artillerie Regiment of the 91. Infantrie Division are sharply woken by the muffled roar of hundreds of aircraft propellers flying overhead, "another bloody air raid" they comment to one another as their anti-aircraft batteries open fire into the early morning sky.
1,000 feet above Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, the "Screaming Eagles" of The 101st Airborne Division stand in the doorways of their C-47 transports waiting for the light to go green, staring at the Normandy countryside thousands of feet below them. As the enemy flak starts to punch holes in the thin walls of their aircraft, the jump light changes and the paratroopers leap into the darkness and the unknown...
65 miles away, an armada of nearly 7,000 vessels have left their berths in the ports of southern England and are steadily steaming across the English Channel, making for the French coast. These included the 21,000 seasick men of the United States 4th Infantry Division, who in a little over five hours will be tasked with storming ashore onto a sandy beach on the Normandy Cotentin Peninsula now codenamed 'UTAH' and linking up with the airborne troops already on the ground.
Our event will take place in the countryside around the hamlet of Vierville, five miles from Utah Beach, with the German 91st Infantrie Division, supported by elements of the 6th Fallschirmjäger-Regiment battling to prevent the Allied forces from linking up and driving inland.
What role will you play in this scenario? Will you leap into the darkness as a member of the airborne forces preparing the way for the invasion, or fight ashore as a member of the 4th Infantry Division?
Or will you join the battle to push back the Yankee invaders as a member of the 191. Artillerie Regiment delivering deadly shells onto the beaches. Defend the Atlantic wall as a Landser of the 1058 Grenadier Reg. or as a member of the elite 6th Fallschirmjäger-Regiment?
