The allied invasion and race to Germany during WWII. D-Day to the Rhine, 1944 is the follow up to, Battle of the Bulge 1944. D-Day to the Rhine, 1944 follows WWII on the Western Front from June of 1944 until March of 1945. As the German player, you will set your defenses to meet the Allied landings. As the Allied player you will land and try to break out...
Rudder’s Line is an AREA MOVEMENT game that simulates The Battle of Normandy, specifically the landing of the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Point du Hoc on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Players take the sides of the German 726th Infantry Regiment or elite US Army Rangers of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. Following an unprecedented invasion by landing and cliff-scaling in the...
D-DAY was completely revised in 1977 to incorporate the latest simulation design innovations including Strategic Movement, Air Interdiction, and Tactical Airpower. It is an Intermediate 1 level game on the The Avalon Hill Game Co Complexity Scale for 2 players aged 12 & up with a varying playing time of 1-4 hours. D-DAY belongs to the The Avalon Hill Game...
A solitaire study of America's most bloody and heroic day in WWII. The player controls the US forces landing along the five mile stretch of Omaha Beach on D-Day and their desperate struggle to establish a viable beachhead. The game covers the entire first day at a time scale that varies from 15 minutes per turn (during the initial landings) to 30 minutes...
Based on John Butterfield's groundbreaking D-Day at Omaha Beach system, this solitaire game presents the critical days of fighting at platoon and company scale. You command the invading American forces against dug-in Japanese defenders, which are controlled by the game system. Tarawa covers the landings on Betio Island in November 1943, and the operations...
D-Day at Peleliu focuses on the landings by the US 1st Marine Division in September 1944, and the bitter two-day struggle to capture the airfield on the southern end of the island. A longer campaign scenario allows the player to extend the action to the rugged terrain of "Bloody Nose Ridge." Opposed by the reinforced Japanese 14th Infantry Division, the...
Description from the publisher: D-Day at Iwo Jima is a Solitaire wargame simulating the amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima. The five-week battle was some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific. In one of the costliest intelligence failures of the war, the planners had completely misjudged the situation that would face the Marines. The beaches had been...
This will be the fight for the island battle made famous in the movie, The Windtalkers. Included would be a campaign scenario, with smaller scenarios for the initial invasion, Death Valley, and the drive north. One mounted map board, two counter sheets (352 counters), 55 cards, full color play aid cards, and a 48-page full color rules booklet. —description...
D-DAY SOLITAIRE is a fast-playing roll n' write dice game for one to five players. The game attempts to recreate the Normandy landings of World War II in a simple yet challenging manner. The design is meant to be a quick, fun, and historical beer & pretzels simulation. There is a map sheet of varying difficulties for each of the five Normandy beaches --...
“Two kinds of people are staying on this beach—the dead and those who are going to die.” Colonel Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, 6 June 1944 Omaha beach was the most fiercely contested of the five Normandy invasion beaches. After the initial landings at 0631 hours, the success of the Omaha operation remained in doubt until well into...
The D-Day folio series consists of four separate games, each portraying a portion of the Normandy campaign area. Turns represent two to three days each; the games cover the campaign from the initial landing to the breakout. Each game comes with one map covering a portion of the battlefield at 2.5 miles per hex. The playing pieces represent the regiments...
D-DAY - The Great Crusade: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 by designer Danny Holte portrays the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. Suitable for solo and team play, the game covers Operation Overlord from June 6th and depicts the action in Normandy until July 6, 1944. This is a regimental level (some battalions), 2-map game...