The Green Hell of Inor. Le Franc Tireur

“The Green Hell of Inor” is LFT’s attempt at bringing 2 weeks of epic fighting that took place in the Ardennes Forest during the very first days of Fall Gelb, the invasion of France.

Designed by Lionel Colin and Xavier Vitry, with the help of scholars in the field of French and German military history, and the international team that is Le Franc Tireur, “The Green Hell of Inor” contains everything you need to play [EXC : the metric half-ton of ASL material that you always need] including two counter sheets with French Foreign Legion, Colonial infantry, early war German machine guns and several other new counters.

Also included are a historical map, a rules booklet (supplemented with an historical booklet with images of the town “Then & Now”, enhanced with a battlefield tour and several other articles about the battle of Inor and the 1940 French Campaign) and 16 historical scenarios.

In addition, three CGs are offered, with several new and easy to understand rules that will allow the players to place interdictory fire with their artillery, or use counter battery fire against enemy guns !

This module provides counters to represent various troops that are not depicted in the core modules.

As the French, you will get (all of them with specific counters) :

Senegalese Tirailleurs

Algerian Tirailleurs

Colonial troops

Corps-Francs units

Foreign Legion (including sappers !)

Full-color AFV that fought this battle (with camouflage pattern)

Leaders never seen before (and probably, thereafter !)

The German uses regular MMP counters, but we have provided early-war MG. You will want to read one of the 32 designer’s notes to get the explanation.

The Campaign Games

Three Campaign Games are provided :

CG I- The Pride of the Foreign Legion (introductory CG, 3 CG dates).

CG II - Sauerei Wald (5 CG dates)

CG III - Flanking the Maginot Line (8 CG dates, the whole campaign that uses the whole map).

Scenarios

This module is composed of 16 scenarios, most taking place on the HASL map.

Five of the scenarios require geomorphic maps (1a, 11a, 39, 58, 66, 70, 72, 81 and x).

French 15th May 1940

ID Name Attacker Date

FT INOR1 Deep Into the French Front German 17th May 1940

FT INOR2 Villy Muss Fallen ! East German 15th May 1940

FT INOR3 Roucaud’s Blow French 15th May 1940

FT INOR4 Wooden Hell German 16th May 1940

FT INOR5 Bois de la Hache French 16th May 1940

FT INOR6 First Counterattack French 16th May 1940

FT INOR7 Sauerei Wald German 17th May 1940

FT INOR8 Hill 311 French 18th May 1940

FT INOR9 Night Terror French 15th May 1940

FT INOR10 Villy Muss Fallen ! West German 15th May 1940

FT INOR11 Woods Ashes French 19th May 1940

FT INOR12 Reaction French 19th May 1940

FT INOR13 Night Patrol German 19th May 1940

FT INOR14 Cendriere’s Farm German 23th May 1940

FT INOR15 « À moi la légion ! » French 27th May 1940

FT INOR16 Not Men but Demons German 27th May 1940