In the commemoration of the 76th anniversary of D-Day as well as the first anniversary of this website, we honor those involved in the largest seaborne invasion of all time and we proudly share the official Breakthrough scenarios for the Normandy landings. They will remain available here so that you don’t even need to fetch your printed manuals. These are in Breakthrough format, so that even if you don’t own a copy of the D-Day Landings expansion, you will be able to play not only the landings themselves, but also work your forces inland and take key objective points.
A significant amount of terrain hexes might be involved in setting up manually, but one player suggested color-printing the scenarios in A3 or A2 size, feel free to experiment and let us know your experience.
Sorry to resurrect this old thread but I had a couple of questions about the scenarios that I hope somebody can help answer.
First off, I see in the scenario description for Juno Beach:
"Place badges on the German and Canadian Elite Infantry units (Troops 2 - Specialized Units) and on the German engineer unit (Troops 4 - Combat Engineers)."
But I can’t see a German engineer badge on any of the units shown in the setup for Juno - only the Elite Infantry badges. Am I missing something? I had a look at the rules PDF on the DOW website for the D-Day landings set and obviously those maps are deeper but the resolution is abysmal so maybe it was a unit on the map further back from the beach that’s not shown in the Breakthrough versions above?
Secondly, it’s about the Breakthrough decks for a 10 player game (just the beaches). I own 2 of everything except the Overlord pack and Equipment pack which I just have 1 copy each. I’d need to count up what I have again but I am certain I have at least 2 Breakthrough decks, 1 Overlord deck and 2 (or possibly 3/4 - I think I ordered a deck or two from DOW once but I don’t recall) of the original Command deck cards.
The question is, “Is it possible to play the 5 beach Breakthrough scenarios with a deck per beach (one deck shared between 2 players) using what I have?” Obviously the Breakthrough deck has slightly amended cards from the original Command deck but other than that, is there any reason I couldn’t make do with what I have?
These images are at 72dpi as the 300 dpi images are too large to upload.
Print at 696x850mm.
The 300dpi images are available here: http://fractalevitreuse.fr/M44/Jour-J_BT.zip
but it is a 164Mb zip file, which also contains the scenario pdfs.
Thank you but the map resolution on the files provided at the top of this thread was actually OK. I was meaning more the official scenarios which are deeper maps. The setup for Juno makes mention of a German Engineers unit but on the Breakthrough maps above I cannot see where that unit is. And so I wondered if there is a German Engineers unit on the pre-printed maps that come with the official D-Day set.
Also, regarding setup, I see that the required number of victory medals for each scenario is the same in this Breakthrough format as it is on the official D-Day Landings maps. I presume that since @goncalo wrote “we proudly share the official Breakthrough scenarios for the Normandy landings” the victory conditions for each map are correct.
Basically, I just wondered if being a smaller map with potentially less Axis units but not Allied units (since the Allied side of the board is completely represented here) would mean there was a change to the victory requirements, or that more Axis units would be added to the Breakthrough maps at the back edge to account for those I presume are printed on the D-Day maps.
To be honest, the posting of the files in this thread was more a case of it being an appropriate place to do so, in commemoration of D-Day, rather than a response to your post.
The published Breakthrough maps are literally just the official maps with the top part cut off. The rules, and victory conditions, are a direct copy. This does mean that there are fewer Axis units, but not by many. The tops of the D-Day maps are extremely sparsely populated. The biggest difference is really on Sword Beach, where the original contains quite a number of Allied troops.
The combat engineers are on the full map, right up in the top left-hand corner, so do not appear on the BT versions.
That’s excellent, thank you for clarifying that for me. I could see some blurry indications of units from the rules PDF for the D-Day expansion but it wasn’t clear enough to make out what was there.
I figured as well that with the Ground Reinforcements rules in effect both sides will get more units as the game progresses so one side being short of some units at the tops of the maps probably doesn’t matter a huge amount.
Hello that’s what I need. Could you send me all the maps like this amrican airborne ( 5 others maps ) ?
I will be the pleasest man of the world.
I came back for a long desease. Sorry to be late.
