{"id":1774,"date":"2016-06-12T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2016-06-12T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:26:47","slug":"tom-hanks-had-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/tom-hanks-had-it-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks  had it easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 4th \u00a0the club replayed the DDay landings \u00a0using the Memoir 44 expansions . Wayne and Lynette \u00a0provided all the maps some 14 feet long , laminated playing aids and explained all the chrome covering reinforcements, special artillery effects and specialist troops. Thanks for all their hard work<\/p>\n<p>We had players for each beach and the airborne landings. it was a great day played in a friendly\u00a0spirit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1778 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1065-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1065\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The landings.<\/p>\n<p>Being a masochist I played Omaha and got a very warm receptions from the dug in Germans on the cliffs, further enhanced by them drawing 2 firefight cards which increased their shooting. \u00a0The survivors regrouped and combat engineers landed to clear the cliffs supported by barrage cards which suppressedthe most heavily defended positions and the 88mm nests.<\/p>\n<p>The game was a narrow victory for the allies \u00a0and was the most enjoyable large game I have played in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1779 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1048-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Omaha\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1782 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1054-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1054\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Action shots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 4th \u00a0the club replayed the DDay landings \u00a0using the Memoir 44 expansions . Wayne and Lynette \u00a0provided all the maps some 14 feet long , laminated playing aids and explained all the chrome covering reinforcements, special artillery effects and specialist troops. Thanks for all their hard work We had players for each beach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/tom-hanks-had-it-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom Hanks  had it easy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ww2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badwargamers.com\/bad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}