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LA BATAILLE DE LA SOMME (1916)_v2 [Mission]

LA BATAILLE DE LA SOMME - 25th of September 1916
by Jojojo12345
(FR Translation below / Traduction FR ci-dessous)

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MAP (500x500 km²):
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LA SOMME (1916)_v1 (Push the Frontline, 11 Phases):
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LA SOMME (1916)_v2 (Operations, 12 Phases):
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WELCOME to an early morning nightmare of rainy snow, pyrite smokes, combat gaz fogs, guts, ashes, blood & biofluids, insomnia, barbed wires, machine-gun nets, heavily armored bunkers, full-of-explosives pillboxes, dirty and cold foodcans, with worms within, shell shocks, spiked mustaches, spiked helmets, spiked bayonets, large range of deadly mines, mine-warfare professionals, and LOTS OF MUD !!

---BACKGROUND
In July 1916, the BEF (British Expeditionnary Force) finally answered to the French's call for help to be finally part of the war, as the French "poilus" soldiers were obliterated by the Germans, at Verdun, for many months. On the 1st of July 1916, despite a powerful-by-its-unefficiency artillery preparation, 66 000 unlucky guys went ahead, at slow pace, along a 25 kms line long. Around 30 000 of them would have been killed during the first six minutes of the battle...

Tanks, mine warfare and airplanes bombing were experimented there for the first time, at a new scale. In order not to face the mistakes of their inital massive attack (made for breaking the frontline), general officers (English as well as French ones) ordered a long series of small scale, useless and deadly attacks, without serious preparation, over weeks. From September, winter climate conditions became awful, making the battlefield a freezing and muddy swamp. The battle started in Summer 1916 and ended around late December 1916. The English (+Anzac) and the French managed at the end to obtain an 8 kilometers push of the frontline...

Article Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme

---INFOS
LARGE choice of custom ww1 squads (Welsh clay-kickers, Scotish squad, Belgian squad,...)
Pretty much every recent custom ww1 props (Chauchat rifles, Tank Mark V, char St-Chamond,...).
Beware this v.2 mission was successfully achieved in Normal Mode after 1h20min !

Do not hesitate please to comment, to give advice and / or to criticize !

AND ENJOY THE MUD !!

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