Easy Red 2

Easy Red 2

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Omaha Beach landing Version 8.0 [Mission]
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Omaha Beach landing Version 8.0 [Mission]

Description
Map: CustomTerrain - 6/6/1944
Gamemode: Operation (17 phases)
Invaders: United States (allies)
Defenders: Germany (axis)

Last update: 06/03/2025

Used DLCs:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2317930/

Used DLCs:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888350/

Used Mods:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2997604359

Omaha beach
June 6th 1944

Version 8.0
RECENT UPDATE: Thursday 6th March 2025


Re-live the horrors of the American landing on Omaha beach with the US 1st and 29th Infantry Division or take part in the defence of the beach with the 352nd German Infantry Division.

6th June 1944
Land on Dog Green or further along on Dog White.

Mission: Get off the beach, re-group and fight your way up Cota's Draw to the top of the 130 foot high bluff near Hamel - Au –Pretre.
Take the defended positions of: WN 70, then 71 and then down to WN 72 ( D1 - Vierville draw 1 beach exit ).

Later in the battle, Rangers and members of the 116th will land on Charlie Beach to the west of you and to the west of the Draw D1 Exit. Joining forces they will climb up the cliffs then advanced through WN73 down towards you at WN72.

Regroup and Continue to fight on from WN72 ( D1 Exit), up the beach road to reach the church in Vierville-sur-Mer to finally secure the beach head.
Note: WN in German means Wiederstandnest, which means nest of resistance (a German strongpoint).

This map is as near as possible - historically and geographically correct within the constraints of the original version with the old prop type terrain graphics.


If you enjoyed playing “OMAHA BEACH” – YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING:

D-Day – Sword Beach:
You will need to Subscribe and download the “test sword” map and then subscribe to one of the following 4 missions currently available for the Sword Beach landings in order:
V1 - is No. 4 Commando
V2 - is 2nd East York’s
V3 – is 1st SSB Commandos
V4 – is 1st Suffolk Regiment

This Normandy map is to scale and is historically and geographically correct for 1944, as are the location of the towns and all the German strong points with all their defences.
Numerous Bigot maps were produced by the RAF aerial reconnaissance and Intel from the French Resistance, (these Bigot maps were actually used by British commanders during the landing on the beaches).
Also used were historical accounts, locations and pictures of battles, many videos and information sources were used over many months to develop the accuracy of this map.

Missions:
You will follow in the footsteps of 4 individual British units above and land in Queen Sector of Sword Beach at different times and follow the same route they took on the day.

Everything you see and experience as you fight your way off the beach to your objective is factual and has been accurately placed, and so you will experience what it would have been like to have been a soldier in that specific unit throughout the day.

NOTE: V3 and V4 will not see any action until they get further in land.
Hope you enjoy the realism.

65 Comments
Malata Societa' Official May 4 @ 3:40pm 
why i need play this and not instead the vanillamission? what this mod have more and better?
alexpenni  [author] Apr 6 @ 3:41pm 
Thank you Volpe/Pinne for informing me of this problem, if you could please be so kind and let me know were the Phases and locations are causing this issue.
Volpe/Pinne Apr 3 @ 5:48am 
overall cool but there are phases where you literally cannot spawn as allies and i refuse to belive its intended
alexpenni  [author] Mar 6 @ 11:52am 
As it was on D Day - - US troops now sadly spend a lot more time getting off the landing beach.
alexpenni  [author] Feb 26 @ 6:49am 
Sea Wall on beach now reduced in height due to changes in wall prop dimensions.
Sherman D-D tanks now back on beach during landings.
New unit starting location map updated in screen shots: - - - showing starting positions for Landing craft and German unit starting positions in strong points.
alexpenni  [author] Feb 10 @ 4:12am 
VERSION 8.0 UPDATED:5/02/2025

Changes:

Some units types and some unit locations have added or changed due to newly acquired WW2 location information, pictures and maps on WN 72 and WN 73.

WN 72 and WN 73 resistance sites reworked to reflect this information.
Anti Tank wall correctly located and added at WN 72.
LCA (Landing Craft Assault) now join LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) landing on the beaches.
Normandy DD Sherman tanks have replaced normal Sherman tanks.
Removed lots of redundant props, terrain landscape props and fix many prop clipping issues.
Introduced US Rangers later in the battle advancing through WN73 and down towards WN72.

When at WN 72 - - - - WATCH OUT ! ! ! for US Rangers coming down from WN 73 location.
alexpenni  [author] Feb 7 @ 10:19am 
How to get faster FPS:
Load the mission then - - Exit back to main menu and restart mission ( will now load in much faster),
Then select single mission ( reduce max units if required ).
Then click on large Gray reverse arrow - - - now the selection arrows will come up for available landing craft.

This is due to a large amount of props to load.

When at WN 72 - - - - WATCH OUT for US Rangers coming down from WN 73

alexpenni  [author] 5 Feb @ 11:05pm 
moyer4487 Jan 31 @ 12:40pm 
@ Salmon Sashimi- worse for who? on omaha and utah beach Americans had over 6600dead and wounded in 24 hours. by the end of the normandy operation on July 1 the US had 30,000 dead and wounded a little over 3 weeks. Iwo the US sustained around the same amount dead and wounded of close to 30k but in a 5 week period. So, who was it worse for? to me worse is subjective at best and the numbers lost were nearly identical in the battles with the exception of normandy being almost 2 weeks shorter with the same number of men lost as Iwo. to me it sounds like it sucks for both battles. besides how do u label anything combat related as worse? in my personal experience combat sucked and was difficult and any firefight i was in or ambush i was caught it was just as bad as the one 2 days prior.
Salmon Sashimi 刺身 Jan 25 @ 11:09pm 
would love to see your take on some pacific DDAY missions. like iwo jima they were WORSE then omaha haha
alexpenni  [author] Jan 18 @ 4:33am 
FLOATING DECAL EXPLOSION TEXTURES above the terrain ISSUE:

Only seen when first starting Easy Red 2 and selecting a custom terrain mission.
Exit the mission back to main menu and then restart mission, Decals are then correctly placed.
(see previous posts below)