Combat! Rangers - The 2nd Ranger Battalion in the Normandy Campaign

(Part # CRIT CT9802a)

PRICE: $29.95

Please note we are not taking orders for this product yet. This page will be updated over the next couple of weeks with counter art and more. Please check back as we expect to begin taking orders in early July.

WHAT YOU GET:

6 BRAND NEW SCENARIOS ON Coated HEAVYWEIGHT stock
A NEW map of the hedgerow country of Pointe du Hoc
450+ color die-cut counters providing the men, AFVs, BARs, and ordnance of the combatants
32-page Combat 3rd Edition rulebook complete with examples of play
3 newly designed play aids for the Combat! Game System
Color storage folder
Includes complete Combat! Normandy UPGRADE KIT with all the counters, rules and information to play using all your previous Combat! Normandy scenarios and maps
Those four Jeep counters from Combat! Diary #1!
Playable in an evening and complete, there is nothing more to buy to get all your Combat! action!

At right is the arena you will be tested in—the thick Bocage country of Normandy as found south of the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc.

There is no place to run when the Germans begin to counter-attack the Ranger lodgement on D-Day. It's hang on until relieved from OMAHA.

Can you maintain a toe-hold in France until the tanks of the 743rd Battalion can come crashing through with your brothers of Companies A, B and C and the guys from the 5th Rangers and 116th Infantry? Or will your efforts to stand in for Colonel Rudder end in a dismal failure as you raise the white flag of defeat to save the few souls left in the lonely beachhead...

This is Combat! Rangers, and you are in the middle of the action in the most detailed game treatment of this battle ever. You can zoom in to the action of an individual BAR gunner at a particular hedgerow-ed in field...right from "Small Unit Actions" (US Army). Combat! Rangers is dedicated to the memory of William 'L-Rod' Petty, 2nd Ranger Battalion veteran of the battle of Pointe du Hoc. We were favored by L-Rod's kind advice and research assistance during the development of the simulation.

Units include:

Ranger Infantry
BAR Gunners
MG 34 and MG 42
M4A1 up-armored Sherman tanks
The armor of the Ersatz Panzer Abteilung 100 including Hotchkiss, S.O.M.U.A. and a flamethrowing B1 bis in German service
Panzerfausts
M1917 US Heavy MG
M8 Armored Car
M3 Halftracks
Opel Blitz truck
Studebaker truck
M1919 Light MG
US Army Infantry
Georgian Conscript infantry in German service
PaK 40 Anti-Tank Gun
M2 Light Mortar
Granatwerfer 34 81mm mortar
M1 81mm mortar
Granatwerfer 36 50mm mortar
Demolition charges and grenade bundles
Sdkfz 251-C halftracks
Pzkw 4H Panzers
dare we say...and more!

COMBAT! RANGERS is two products in one. You get a complete, brand new Combat! Game System module depicting the action in the hedgerows of Pointe du Hoc in keeping with the Combat! philosophy—a complete game in every package. You'll need two ten-sided dice, in two different colors, to play COMBAT! RANGERS.

Inside COMBAT! RANGERS you also receive the long-awaited Combat! Normandy UPGRADE KIT, providing all the counters, play aids and rules to play ALL of your previous Normandy scenarios. Yes, you'll get those Jeeps from Combat! Diary #1 in die-cut counter form and lots more!

There's more to this module than meets the eye. New weapons are introduced to the system in counter form, including the Panzerfaust 60, Panzerschreck, M4A1 Sherman, Browning Automatic Rifle, among others. More importantly, the system has been streamlined and improved, taking into account your demands for increased playability, ease of use and downright fun. We've even made the system more solitaire friendly for those late-night solo sessions.

Above left is the red folio. Below are some of the new counters. They are 1/2" and 5/8" in size, not the size shown on screen. But those are the real deal below, blown up to show the detail. All are the real thing from the actual graphic files printed to make the counters.

The Firepower Factors Table has been improved, and the entire ordnance High Explosive presentation changed to what is perhaps the most streamlined ever. The DFET (Direct Fire Effects Tables) also receive a new treatment, with DFET and HE now working together hand-in-glove.

The flow of the action is still built around the acclaimed free-form IMPULSE system. And other systems have been streamlined to move things along with more action...and intensity...than before. Move that Sherman down the hedgerow-ed lane, or fire off your Panzerfaust...or bring down an artillery strike...in the order you choose. That's the freedom to create your own tactical-level work of 'art de combat' using the CGS. And we say let freedom from 'phase-prison' ring!

The scenarios are now presented on a single sheet of coated heavyweight card each. The actions are the ultimate in detail, right down to the individual BAR gunners. There is no part of the account in the US Army's SMALL UNIT ACTIONS - Pointe du Hoe (sic) that you can't recreate in COMBAT! RANGERS.