The battle for Brittany

Zero Bravo · 2009-09-20T22:40:50Z

Announcing the next WW2 game to be held at Elite Action Games Worthing site on February 21st 2010. Just a notice to put a date in your diaries, book time off work or start building excuses with the wife! More details to follow in the future of team sizes and booking details, just wanted to book the date in the fast filling calendar for 2010! Quoted from Ask.. The advance of the 8th Corps also brought with it a problem that involved the French Resistance. Whereas the resistance had played a major but invisible role at D-Day the campaign in Brittany was one where the French Resistance was to openly fight the Germans. A French officer based in London, Albert Eon, was flown in to lead the 20,000 men and women of the resistance based in Brittany. However, they needed modern equipment. This was parachuted in. The problem was that the Americans advanced so quickly that the equipment was frequently dropped in areas already taken by the Americans so that the resistance fighters had to wait for it to be moved up to them. Regardless of such glitches, the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) did have its triumphs. FFI troops attacked and captured the Vannes airfield using armoured jeeps brought in by gliders; 150 Frenchmen took important rail bridges at and near Morlaix. Groups of FFI openly accompanied the Americans - their local knowledge about the layout of the land was very important to the Americans. One reason for the speed of the Americans advance was German disarray after D-Day. Another reason was that the German commander in Brittany, General Fahrmbacher, had ordered all of his troops to the heavily defended ports - therefore, there were fewer Germans in the interior of Brittany than the Americans had thought. Hitler had designated the ports as fortresses "to be defended to the last man, to the last cartridge". This time the French get no special privelages but the point system will be worked out in advance and the result for the day will be based on objectives achieved on the day, not what happened in the book!