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Grand Operational Simulation Series

Atlantic Wall: D-Day to Falaise

The SPI ver­sion of At­lantic Wall was foun­da­tion­al in my wargam­ing his­to­ry. But since solo­ing the air/beach land­ings and a cou­ple turns of this GOSS ver­sion; I can’t see my self ev­ery play­ing the SPI ver­sion again.

The air­borne land­ing FoW me­chan­ic is bril­liant. I en­joy both rule set­s’ beach land­ing sub­sys­tem­s. I will say, holy crap, noth­ing since SPR has hit me with a sense of what a hor­rif­ic hellscape Om­a­ha Beach must have been. At the same time, the sim­ple “lead­er un­pins unit so it can move” sparks in my mind’s eye a nar­ra­tive of sol­diers do­ing what needs do­ing in the face of ex­treme ad­ver­si­ty.

As to the rest of the game; GOSS 2020 is crisp, tight and crunchy de­li­cious. It pro­vides a sim­i­lar en­dor­phin rush teas­ing through its rules and puz­zling out how to ap­ply them suc­cess­ful­ly as does do­ing much the same with soft­ware code.

Playaides

Un­of­fi­cial At­lantic Wall Rules 2016 (Cam­paign On­ly), re­for­mat­ted 2016 ver­sion of e-rules; more read­able and in­line with 2020 ver­sion of GOSS se­ries rules.

Un­of­fi­cial GOSS AW Com­piled Rul­ings, com­piled from BBG and Con­sim­World fo­rum­s.

At­lantic Wall Time­line Google Sheet, a GANTT like chart of the cam­paign’s com­mand, lo­gis­tic­s, air­pow­er changes over time.

Beach Fire­pow­er Google Sheet, based off of David Gilbane’s orig­i­nal.

Naval Tran­sit/­Land­ings Flow­chart, cre­at­ed by Wig G.

2026 Campaign Game

Four play­er­s, 2 on each side. I play the Cana­di­ans and oth­er Com­mon Wealth forces.

Start­ed a month late. In Ju­ly not June. Post­ing to blog.frien­dor­foe.­com At­lantic Wall AARs match­ing the Game Turn dates.

Google Drive Fold­er with At­lantic Wall Cam­paign im­ages and videos.