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Normandy France, July 1944: Colombelles was an industrial town northeast of Caen, east of Hérouville and the Orne River. The entire area was dominated by the smokestacks of the Société Métallurgique de Normandie (Metallurgic Company of Normandy), a giant steel factory at Colombelles. The smokestacks were the ideal observation posts over the battlefield for the Germans. General Bernard Law Montgomery decided on an operation to take these smokestacks out. The operation was aptly called Operation STACK.

StW 1 – Secure the Crossroads: To provide a foothold from which to launch the attack into the Steelworks, the 5th Black Watch was tasked with conducting a night attack to capture the crossroads northeast of the factory.

StW 2 –Hunt the Hun”: While the 5th Black Watch was securing the crossroads, to the west the 1st Gordons were fighting their way through Colombelles, clearing the town in the face of stiffening German resistance.

StW 3 – Tiger Attack: By first light the 5th Black Watch had secured the train garages and gained a foothold in the northern perimeter of the factory grounds. Suddenly the air was filled with the sound of “moaning minnies” and out of the factory rumbled Tiger tanks!

StW 4Knock them Down! With Monty himself directing the smokestacks of the Colombelles Steelworks to be knocked down, the plan called for the British 153rd Brigade to dart in, blow up the stacks, and be back by lunch. This plan couldn’t have turned out worst.

StW 5 Securing the Steelworks: The Canadians’ part of Operation GOODWOOD was known as ATLANTIC and it involved the capturing of the Steelworks that had thwarted the British a week earlier. Late in the afternoon, just as a rain shower began, the Canadian 8th Brigade stepped off and headed for the towering smokestacks of the factory.

 

The Steelworks contains:

  • one 35" x 27" map with one inches hexes
  • one countersheet with 140 x 1/2" counters
  • the Steelworks Special Rules including for Luftwaffen troops and British Pipers
  • five ASL scenarios