tide_of_iron_normandy_rules.pdf

NORMANDY

CAMPAIGN EXPANSION

Two kinds of people are staying on this beach: the dead and

those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here!

The invasion at Normandy had originally been scheduled for

June 5th, but poor weather convinced the Allies to wait. Despite

the questionable weather forecast for the 6th, the Allied leaders

decided there could be no further delays.

– Colonel George A. Taylor, Omaha Beach

By the summer of 1944, almost every nation in Europe had

fallen under Nazi occupation. To stop Hitler’s invading forces

and to free those countries under his control, Allied forces drew

up plans for an assault, code-named Operation Overlord. In

the early morning of June 6th, American soldiers landed in two

separate areas of the 60-mile coastline of Normandy, France.

During the final hours of June 5th and in the early morning of

June 6th, the Allies launched numerous airborne assaults, while

their invasion fleet, encompassing several thousand ships, pro-

ceeded to the disembarkation points along the Normandy coast-

line. Utah Beach fell quickly as the Americans encountered only

light opposition. The Germans defended Gold Beach, Sword

Beach, and Juno Beach more vigorously than the Allies had

expected. Nonetheless, the British and Canadians eventually

overwhelmed their opponents.

The D-Day invasion had begun.

Operation Overlord consisted of three nations attacking five

different locations. The areas assigned to the Americans were

code-named Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. The British were

given Gold Beach and Sword Beach. The Canadian forces tar-

geted Juno Beach.

At Omaha Beach, the largest of the landing areas, spanning six

miles and guarded by 100-foot cliffs, the Allied attack stalled.

As the Americans confronted a division of Rommel’s elite

infantry, heavy clouds protected the German defenders from

Allied bombers, and offshore artillery provided little support.

Tragically, 27 Duplex Drive Sherman tanks, amphibious vehi-

cles made specifically for the Normandy invasion, sank along

with their crews upon leaving their transports.

Leading up to the invasion, the Allies employed several

elaborate deceptions to draw attention away from Normandy.

They provided the Germans with false information about the

existence of a First U.S. Army Group under the command of

General Lesley J. McNair and General George S. Patton, Jr.

This fictitious group supposedly planned an invasion at Pas de

Calais to the north. The Allies hoped that if the Nazis believed

this was a genuine threat, they would be hesitant to send rein-

forcements when the real attack began.

As the Omaha landing faltered and organization sank into

chaos, dire necessity drove the American forces forward.

Smaller groups of soldiers and officers split from the main

combat force, advancing on German positions at the ends of the

beach. Meanwhile, Army Rangers scaled the surrounding cliffs.

Ultimately this progress, combined with naval bombardments

and hours of assaults, secured the beach for the Americans.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox himself, orga-

nized the German defense. Months before the invasion, upon

seeing the sad state of the coastline fortifications, Rommel

immediately stepped up the production and installation of

German defenses, including the placement of millions of land

mines and thousands of tank traps.

The Germans still believed that Normandy was the diversion

from Pas de Calais.

By the end of June, the Allies had put over 850,000 men,

148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies ashore in

France.

Rommel believed that an Allied invasion would need to be

stopped at the beaches, and that German tank forces needed

to be stationed near the coast. Others in the German high

command believed letting the Allies land and then initiating a

counterattack would be a better strategy. They wanted the tanks

far inland, near Paris. Instead of favoring one strategy or the

other, Hitler split his panzer divisions between the two proposed

areas. This decision served neither strategy well.

With the Allies’ successful landing at Normandy, Germany was

now trapped between the invading Allied forces to the West and

the Russians to the East. For the Allies, the inevitable march to

Berlin – and ultimate victory – was finally underway.

GAME OVERVIEW

The Normandy expansion expands on the already epic Tide

of Iron (“TOI”) game experience by adding an entirely new

way to play (the campaign game), new American and German

vehicles, new terrain features (beaches and hedgerows), new

scenarios, and more. All of these new components can be used

to play the included scenarios, as well as future scenarios, both

official and player-made, which will be available online at

www.fantasyflightgames.com. Detailed descriptions of these

new components, as well as how they are used, are included on

the following pages.

COMPONENT OVERVIEW

Below you will find illustrations and brief descriptions of all the

components found in this expansion.

British Plastic Figures

These 42 detailed plastic figures

represent British military

personnel. Also included are

14 British squad bases in two

different shades of tan.

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COMPONENTS

This Rulebook and Scenario Guide

German Plastic Figures

These German plastic figures

represent four types of German

tanks.

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29th Infantry Campaign Book and Scenario Guide

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42 British Plastic Figures, consisting of:

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27 Standard Infantry

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6 Elite Infantry

American Plastic Figures

These four American plastic

figures represent the American

M10 Tank Destroyer.

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3 Officers

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3 Mortar Crews

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14 Squad Bases, consisting of:

3 Machine Gun Crews

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7 Light Tan British Bases

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16 German Plastic Figures, consisting of:

7 Dark Tan British Bases

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4 StuG III Tanks

Unit Reference Sheets

These sheets provide players with the

combat values and special abilities for

each of the new plastic units.

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4 Panther Tanks

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4 Jagdpanzer IV Tanks

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4 American Plastic Figures, consisting of:

4 King Tiger Tanks

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2 Unit Reference Sheets

4 M10 Tank Destroyers

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6 British Control Markers

British Tokens

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2 British Concealed Squad Markers

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4 British Command Objectives (various values)

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1 British Victory Point Token

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10 Ruins/Breach Tokens

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16 Tank Trap/Barbed Wire Beach Tokens

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12 Crater Tokens

A variety of British tokens are provided. These include British

control markers, concealed squad markers, command objective

markers, and a victory point token. These tokens function

exactly as their American and German counterparts.

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20 Map Overlay Tiles

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8 Charge Tokens

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10 Weather Check Tokens

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4 Specialization Tokens

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66 Campaign Specialization Tokens

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110 Cards, consisting of:

Normandy Map Boards

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70 Leadership Cards, consisting of:

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1 Blitzkrieger Deck (10 cards)

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1 Watchdog Deck (10 cards)

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1 Tactician Deck (10 cards)

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1 Hero Deck (10 cards)

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1 Tank Buster Deck (10 cards)

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1 Assaulter Deck (10 cards)

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8 Commander Cards

1 Air Raider Deck (10 cards)

These nine thick, double-sided map boards are used to build the

game board for each Normandy scenario. Rules governing new

terrain features can be found on page 5 (and a summary of such

can be found on the back of the Campaign Book and Scenario

Guide included in this box).

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14 Operations Cards

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1 British Initiative Card

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1 29th Infantry Initiative Card

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9 Normandy Map Boards

16 Weather Cards

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Map Overlay Tiles

Normandy introduces a new type of specialization token,

the demolitions unit. Also introduced are new campaign

specializations called advancement tokens .

Weather Cards

These cards alter the weather conditions

during a given scenario.

New map overlay tiles are provided for use in the Normandy

scenarios. These overlays include a large variety of different

terrain. As with the overlay tiles provided in the main game,

these new overlays are placed on top of the map boards, adding

to or altering their terrain features.

Operations Cards

The new Operations cards provide

a variety of rules to their assigned

scenarios, mostly pertaining to the

Normandy theater of warfare.

Beach Terrain Tokens

New tank trap/barbed wire tokens are included for aesthetically

appropriate use on the beach map boards. These obstacles

function the same as their non-beach counterparts.

British Initiative Card

The British initiative card functions the same as its

American and German counterparts.

Destroyed Terrain Tokens

Ruins/breach tokens are used to indicate when

a building or a hedgerow has been destroyed.

29th Infantry Initiative Card

The 29th Infantry initiative card is only used in the

29th Infantry Division campaign, instead of the

normal initiative card used by the Americans.

Cratered Terrain Tokens

The cratered terrain tokens modify the statistics

of existing terrain features, reproducing the

effects of heavily bombarded terrain.

Commander and Leadership Cards

These cards are used with the

“Commanders” option and allow

players to customize their strategy

based on their nation’s commander.

Charge Tokens

Charge tokens represent a variety of explosives

utilized by demolitions squads. The particular

kind of explosive is defined by the scenario.

GAME ADDITIONS

Normandy includes many new components, most of which are

governed by both new and old rules. All components provided

in this expansion follow the standard TOI rules unless otherwise

stated. All new rules for these components are described in the

sections that follow.

Weather Check Tokens

Weather check tokens are placed on the turn track

and remind the players when they need to make a

weather check.

The sections that follow are modular in nature. Each different

rule section can be applied to a given scenario independently

of all the others. In this way, players can decide which rules are

best suited for their own scenarios.

Specialization and Campaign Specialization Tokens

NORMANDY MAP BOARDS

The nine Normandy map boards featured in this expansion are

used in the scenarios provided in this book (starting on page

8) and in the campaign book. Also, there are new terrain types,

which are described in detail below. Note that all terrain types,

overlays, and obstacles that follow that also appear in the core

TOI game function the same as they do in the core game.

Road Over Stream

Bunkers

Blocking Terrain: No

Movement Cost: 1

Cover: 0

Blocking Terrain: Yes

Movement Cost: 2 for squads, vehicles

cannot enter

Cover: 8

Counts as a road hex for contiguous

road movement.

Representing strong fortifications, bunkers take up an entire

hex. However, like pillboxes, bunkers can contain only one

squad. A unit in a bunker is immune to suppressive attacks.

Bunkers are considered to be at level two elevation unless noted

otherwise.

Forest Stream

Blocking Terrain: Yes

Movement Cost: Movement depends on

water depth (specified by each scenario).

Cover: 2

Hedgerows

Blocking Terrain: Yes

Movement Cost: 2 for squads, vehicles

cannot enter

Cover: 3 (no cover versus area attacks)

TERRAIN TOKENS

Crater

The presence of at least one crater token

modifies existing terrain hexes as follows:

It is possible for certain vehicles to cause a breach in a

hedgerow. The breach token is then placed on the hedgerow hex

that has been breached. This hex is no longer considered to be a

hedgerow but is instead considered to be clear terrain.

Movement Cost: + 1

Cover: +2

Beach

Note that trucks cannot enter terrain with a crater token.

Blocking Terrain: No

Movement Cost: 2 for squads, 1 for

vehicles (trucks cannot enter)

Cover: 0

Ruins

Ruins tokens are used on building terrain

to show that a building is destroyed. A hex

containing a Ruins token is considered to be

rough terrain.

Swamp

Breach

Blocking Terrain: No

Movement Cost: 3 for squads, vehicles

cannot enter

Cover: 1

Breach tokens are placed in hedgerow hexes

as a result of the “Hedge Breakers” Operations

card. Hexes containing this token are treated as

clear terrain.

Graveyard

THE BRITISH FORCES

First introduced in the Days of the Fox expansion set, some

British forces are also included in Normandy .

Blocking Terrain: No

Movement Cost: 2 for squads, vehicles

cannot enter

Cover: 1

In addition to their plastic pieces, the British also receive

nation-specific tokens and Commander cards. All British pieces

can be identified by their tan nation color.

Supply Depot

It is also important to note that the British and Americans were

allied during World War II, and they often shared equipment

and fought side-by-side on the battlefield. Therefore, American

and British pieces are always considered friendly. Certain

scenarios assign American vehicles to the British. These are

considered to be British units.

Blocking Terrain: Yes

Movement Cost: 1 for squads, 2 for

vehicles (only trucks may enter)

Cover: 1

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