Jim: Your explanation does not make sense to me. I have read plenty of accounts of medium and light artillery weapons firing anti-tank rounds directly at armored targets. Some that come immediately to mind are the British 25pdr (87mm), the German leHB 18 (105mm) and the Russian 76.2mm...

I forget to mention that your initiative to map the rubble in Northern Caen from the pre-Charnwood heavy bomber raid is a great idea. If it is successful it could be retrofitted to the Goodwood scenario to model the damage from the Goodwood heavy bomber attack on Colombelles, the steel factory...

Bie: It is great to hear that Charnwood is your latest project. It makes sense that you could also include Operation Windsor, the Canadian 8th brigade attack on Carpiquet (July 4/5)which led up to Charnwood. If I could make a suggestion for a future project which interconnects with these...

Wow. I am playing the Goodwood-Atlantic scenario as the Allies and it is massive. For me this meant that after first contact I had to slow the game down just to be able to stay on top of everything that was going on. I needed to check the AI movement paths a lot to ensure that units that I...

Tim Thanks for the info. It makes sense that such a unit existed but I had never seen it formalized.

Just a quick note on the LW 16 Feld Div. It was in bad shape before Goodwood. It appears that the division was also hit hard in the previous Operation Charnwood actions in which to British and Canadians captured all of Caen on the other side of the Orne. One source indicated that they had...

Thanks for this Jim. I live in Brockville, ON which is just across the river from upstate NY. My father was in the British Army in WW2. He was based in Detroit and his only job was to work with auto manufacturers on the procurement of US trucks for the British Army,

I have some info that may help you a bit with your Canadian units setup. According to my source all of 8th Brigade (QOR, NSR & RDC) crossed London Bridge at 1am on Jul 18 and took up positions in front of Colombelles. RDC & QOR up front with NSR in reserve. Both lead battalions were supported...

The Ground Defence Platoon does not seem to be a formal unit. However, higher level HQ's have a habit of hording resources for their own protection. These can include infantry, anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns. These may have been units assigned from subordinate infantry units or some...

The reason the Canadian army used M7 Priests rather than Sextons started with the Canadian strategy on D-Day. Overlord planners wanted Canadian artillery to be able to land, set-up quickly and be able to move quickly in support of what was expected to be a fluid situation on the first two days...

I have a fair amount of info on the Canadians in Normandy. The only significant difference in equipment between the Canadian army and the British Army was that the Canadians had been assigned US M-7 Priests as self-propelled artillery in place of the usual 25pdr's. They had these from D-Day...