Saturday 8 October 2011
Leeds Royal Armouries
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This is a megagame about the famous tank
battle in Normandy in July 1944.
Operation Goodwood was an attack launched on 18 July 1944, by the British
army to the east of the city of Caen with three armoured divisions, supported
by a British corps on the eastern flank and a Canadian corps on the western
flank.
When Operation Goodwood came to a close
on 20 July, the armoured divisions had broken through the initial German
defences and had advanced 7 miles before coming to a halt in front of
the Bourguébus Ridge.
Some have called it the largest tank battle that the British Army has
ever fought.
This operational megagame pitted Divisional and Corps staffs against each other in an intense pitched battle over the French countryside. We use an updated variant of the free OpCom map wargame rules.
The game was run by Megagame Makers
Last Played on Saturday 14 May 2011, London
After Action Reports from the 14 May 2011 game
Report on the day by Jurrien DeJong on the Fortress AT site
During the game, the players in each team were invited to compile 'official war diaries' of their actions of their formation during the game: These have been scanned for download, here:
Also see Tim Price's excellent photos of the day here
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