Normandy HASL

[DonWPetros]

Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the pending Normady HASL? Which actions, etc. are covered?

Don

 

[Perry]

The actions around St.-Mere-Egisle from Fauville to Neuville-au-Plain 6June-8June. Np paradrops but perhaps some glider landing.

 

[DonWPetros]

Thanks much, Perry. Looks interesting for sure - really like Normandy stuff and have prepared some Normady geoboards.
Have been reading 'Night Drop' by SLA Marshall. Inspiring.

 

[Cartouche 7.62]

The actions around St.-Mere-Egisle from Fauville to Neuville-au-Plain 6June-8June. Np paradrops but perhaps some glider landing.

Hi Perry,
It should be "St.-Mere-Eglise from Vauville to Neuville-au-Plain".

 

[Perry]

Hi Perry,
It should be "St.-Mere-Eglise from Vauville to Neuville-au-Plain".

To the best of my knowledge, Vauville is on the Channel coast just west of Cherbourg.
Fauville is right outside of St.-Mere-Eglise.

 

[Perry]

Thanks much, Perry. Looks interesting for sure - really like Normandy stuff and have prepared some Normady geoboards.
Have been reading 'Night Drop' by SLA Marshall. Inspiring.

Always like your boards, Don.
Pending the success of Drop Zone: St.-Mere-Eglise, we have plans for other HASLs in the area.

 

[DVexile]

There’s a bit of discussion from two years ago starting here:

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/official-hasls-cgs-in-the-works.125777/post-2035841

discussion runs for a number of posts past there.

 

[DonWPetros]

Always like your boards, Don.
Pending the success of Drop Zone: St.-Mere-Eglise, we have plans for other HASLs in the area.

Thanks - and let me know how I can help - a Big Normandy fan here

 

[Jwil2020]

a Big Normandy fan here

+1

 

[Cartouche 7.62]

To the best of my knowledge, Vauville is on the Channel coast just west of Cherbourg.
Fauville is right outside of St.-Mere-Eglise.

All right, I get it. So many villages with the same names in Normandy.

 

[cifdale]

Always like your boards, Don.
Pending the success of Drop Zone: St.-Mere-Eglise, we have plans for other HASLs in the area.

For my part Perry, I'll be ordering 2 copies when the time comes.

 

[Tuomo]

So many villages with the same names in Normandy.

Crafty Frenchmen. Some high-level misdirection, there.

 

[hongkongwargamer]

Crafty Frenchmen. Some high-level misdirection, there.

Much like the US dollar notes, all denominations sporting the same size and the same color.

 

[Larry]

Much like the US dollar notes, all denominations sporting the same size and the same color.

mainly because we have one wallet ... watch the biographical drama of Ray Charles to get an idea of how the US system plays havoc for the visually impaired. So Charles insisted on being paid on ones.

 

[ScottRomanowski]

how the US system plays havoc for the visually impaired.

I once dated a woman who was visually impaired; she folded her bills differently based on value, and required the the cashier to hand her the bills separated by type when she got change. It would be much easier if our bills were different sizes. Think of coins, you can often tell how much you have just by feel.

 

[Larry]

One of the reasons for the failure of the dollar coin, too close in size to a quarter.

 

[Wayne]

This story kinda relates to the WWII era....

Steel pennies during the war years were a problem, too. At a glance, too easily mistaken for a silver dime.

In the late 60s, I met a once-younger WWII-era US grocery cashier. He told me that every time he'd seen a steel penny, he'd take it out of circulation w/prejudice and would put it in a box under his cash register because rush-hour shoppers would try to confuse him and have him count them as dimes.

End of day, he'd have to make up any shortage, of course. Minimum hourly wage then was about 30 cents. As a kid, he may have been making less? Either way, it didn't take too many errors to put a dent in a day's wages. (A dime in 1943 was worth about $1.69 today, 2022.)

He still had the box and in it were over 600 steel pennies (in pretty good condition). He let me cherry-pick one from each US mint for my early teenage penny collection album (long since misplaced).

 

[hongkongwargamer]

mainly because we have one wallet ... watch the biographical drama of Ray Charles to get an idea of how the US system plays havoc for the visually impaired. So Charles insisted on being paid on ones.

I once worked selling movie tickets in a dark theater stateside. Five minutes into it and i was like “you people are NOT serious”.

 

[Khill]

One of the reasons for the failure of the dollar coin, too close in size to a quarter.

dollar coins failed in the us because they don't fit in g-strings

 

[bendizoid]

I had a cashier AND manager at a Taco Bell drivethrough refuse my 2$ bills. They had never seen them before and thought they were counterfeit, lol.