Normandy Campaign 2-mile Square grid — Beaches & Cotentin Peninsula

Refight the invasion of Normandy for large-scale rulesets (like Sam Mustafa's Eisenhower; one battalion per stand, three battalions per square). An 18x44 square grid of 2-mile squares features all major terrain types plus atmospheric details for "color."

Speaking of color, the Normandy Campaign series has a green land area and a darker blue sea area compared to the colorful contours and light blue sea of the D-Day series, which is similar but designed as a reference for making smaller skirmish or tactical game tables.

Includes the D-Day beaches, the Cotentin Peninsula, and enough terrain inland beyond Caen to cover the campaign from June 6 through most of July 1944.

This super-detailed map is based on a Michelin 1947 road map of Normandy (which was sold to returning veterans) with three levels of roads, town blocks & names, rivers, beaches (low & high tide lines), gridded hexes or squares PLUS tons of info added: 20-meter contour level edges*, with capital ship anchorages, forts, forests, swamps, and bocage areas.

Each square on this map is 2 Miles wide with Major Terrain Types: Flat, Forest, Soft Ground (swamp), Urban, and Bocage areas. A terrain key can be downloaded for free from my blog at WargameCampaign.wordpress.

The thumbnail "cover" image shows the whole area map you are buying at the bottom and an example, enlarged portion south of Omaha Beach. 

How big is it? If you enlarge the map's scale to (for example) 2 miles per 3.1", the full map would be just over 4.7x11.4 FEET! Or print just a portion, like shown for the first two days of the invasion on Little Wars TV.

The PDF map's actual size is 36.666" high by 90" wide and can be reduced or enlarged. The detail will not get grainy/fuzzy when enlarged because it was drawn with "vectors" in Adobe Illustrator. The 8 Megabyte map file comes as a PDF and can be opened in the free program Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Save now!

- Bill Owen, Game Design (co-founder of Judges Guild)

PS If you prefer a 2-mile hex grid or No Grid, stay tuned; I expect to upload those soon.

*Important Note: features not included in this Normandy Campaign series that were included in the D-Day map series: Bookmarks and colored contours (just the edges of the contours are shown in this map version).