OKLAHOMA D-DAY

hey ppls sup?

 ME and acouple guys are from iowa and going down to d day and we were wondering wut its like can aneyone tells us wut were are getting our selves into? were takeing the beach if that matters any this is our 1 year so tells us some stuff plz thanks

                                                     TINy

I was in the 82nd and we ran orientation. i can tell you that the sides were even this year. I have seen the numbers myself.

the germans were routed in every objective, i watched it happen. St. Lo was given to the germans not because we abandoned it, but because of a sneaky move by 1 german sniper who took out Gen. Psycho just as he was hitting the pyro. (on a side note: St. Lo was taken by the 82nd Airborne in less than 18 minutes because the Germans left it to go to the wall, I saw them leave.)

The number one reason why the germans lost this year and last year was organization. The Allies spent all week running through meetings to go over battle plans and effectively communicated the plans to their lower ranked officers, Lt., Sergeants, ect. We knew how to work in groups and maintain communications with our Generals in the field.

The bunker staff did everything they could to make the game run smoothly, there was some confusions with rules and such, but it was all individual refs who caused the problems. (Such as letting the Germans reinsert 10 minutes before the Allies outside St. Lo)

I had a good time, and will most definately go back again. (And it was one of the best night games i've been in.)

Yeah the Ref's were telling the three of us as we walked off the field that saw truck loads of German's coming off the field just before the rain stopped and made no attempt to get back out there.

After we got shot out after the rain we went to our camp site, changed our cloths and ate ....  I think we were out for only 40 minutes and by then while we were walking back out we saw nothing but German's walking off saying "Don't bother it isn't even fair".

We were like "Who the hell cares, we want to shoot someone!!"

Hence the difference in mentality for the German side.  There were some serious scenario players like us, but mostly the hoag poag grouping of late registers with no team work or command structure set up.

We tried to rally some of them as we walked back out but had no luck.

it's not about pre-registrations and walk-ons that make the difference. it's outright recruiting. the 82nd filled up so fast because they did a great job recruiting players they knew to be hard-core that wouldn't leave the field.

i was in Fox Company of the 82nd and we stood in the woods outside St. Lo for 2 hours not firing a shot because our orders were to hold. We were all tired, soaking wet, and some of us had guns that were fried, but we did what we were supposed to do. I didn't see one player from the 82nd leave the field until game was called at 4:00 because there were no germans left.

we have some of the 82nd changing sides next year just so they can show the german command how to run their game.

if you want to talk about meetings for planning, the allies had at least 2 meetings per day to go over changes and tactics, not to mention the British leaders invited the allied command staff to high tea so we could all get to know each other.

you can talk about being outnumbered all you want, but i can tell you the sides were even. i myself worked orientation and saw the numbers for both sides. the numbers were equal. we just used our numbers more effectively.

i have seen the numbers because we had excel printouts of every registered player with name, number and unit. the allies were keeping track of every player that went through orientation by marking their hopper cover before they could recieve one.

general psycho of the 82nd took great care to recruit teams and players from all over that he knew to be full-out hardcore. i was tired because the 82nd had no transports to the field. we marched in from the main stage and then assaulted St. Lo through the woods. i was fine until the rain started coming down and then i just wished you guys would attack so i could do something. but i knew my job was to hold the woods south of st. lo and that's what i did. in my company, we had no one desert their post because they wanted to get in some action. we all knew there would be plenty of action before the day was out.

and i bet i know who said that, because one of the allied commanders said the same thing, but he said he wanted to switch sides to make things more fair because the german commanders don't know what they were doing. 

you can grip all you want, but the allies were far more prepared and better equipped. they is why we won this year.

The only thing that needs to happen is some organization should be done on the German side. We had a field day kicking the crap out of the 1st division on the wall. Even though we lost, I think every German on the wall had a good time. We cycled people though the new bunker and kept it well stocked with fresh bodies and ammo. The damn people just didn't come back when they died or didn't come back after the rain.

BTW, the allies didn't get any bangalores set until over an hour after the start of the game. I was on top of the the new bunker had the firing sector from boat three to boat four. I killed everyone with my mag (it helped having over 1500 rounds on me). When the ramp would fall, the peeps would walk out into my stream of fire. I couldn't stop giggling. Slasherdan had the firing sector from boat two to boat three. It was utter carnage.

I think Dewayne is doing it right by trying to follow some historical tracks. 34000 Americans attacked 6000 Germans at Omaha. We held this year - nearly down to the wire. I was one of the final guys that was rooted out of the trenches by the first 88. That happened at 11:30. We lost the wall by 10:30 last year.

I will be back next year. And trust me - It will be a different story.