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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5768794" data-attributes="member: 52734">A few Coastcons ago (when the A&A War at Sea game came out), I dragged a couple of friends into an interesting-looking Assault on Omaha Beach Flames of War game.  The setup looked absolutely awesome, they'd modeled the assault on the beach really well in miniature.  My friends and I took on the Allied side and though we did try to coordinate our assault, we each approached things in our own way.It very much reminded me of the Games Workshop games I'd played in the past.  Move, roll to shoot, roll to wound, roll for cover to avoid hits.Since this was my first time, I tried (against the advisement of the Ref) to hustle my squads across the open beach into the cover at the base of hills. The others on my side were slowly plodding from the landing ships to the base of the hill, taking a lot of fire and getting pinned.  I lost quite a few men on the charge, but managed to reach the base of the hill and drew off fire from the other squads (since I was easier to hit) that allowed the others to get closer.  Not something I think I'd like to repeat, but I think overall it worked.  After all, it allowed one of my friends to get his ranger squads in place to start picking Germans off the top (silencing the machine gun nests REALLY helped).We didn't get to finish that game, it was huge.  After about 6 hours of play, we'd made it 1/3 of the way up the hills, landed our first couple of Sherman platoons.  This despite the fact we couldn't seem to get air support in to hit anything on the top of the hill.The funniest part was I had just bought some A&A War at Sea minis and managed to score a USS Iowa.  After the first two turns of our coastal bombardment missing, I put the mini down on a nearby table, with guns aimed at the beach.  Thereafter, our naval bombardments *did not miss*.The next day, I picked up the game as well as some cheap toy sets/HO scale WWII models.  Unfortunately, I haven't played anyone since that big game, but I'd love to put together a German Tiger or mechanized company (something with Tiger tanks).In other words, it's a good game.</blockquote>

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