D-day at omaha beach game

The entire game can be controlled from your mouse. There is a great deal to do with the units — from clearing mines to scaling cliffs and assaulting German positions, this game captures the events of D Day. While the game is fun, it feels incomplete and buggy. The first problem is that the game has no real instructions manual!

Two manuals are included which are just the manuals for the board game! While the game has plenty of help screens, it would seem to me to be important to actually have a formatted instruction book to help you play the game! In addition, at specific points in the game, a window will open up giving you the option of landing specific units on specific parts of Omaha beach. I had to exit out of the game and then restart the game from my auto-saved turn in order to progress past the screen.

Did they not play test this game? As a game designer and technical writer, myself, it frustrates me to see a game with such potential be given such a shabby, rushed treatment. The game is fun to play if you can look past all the issues. Interesting review! I had looked this over as the paper game is huge and difficult to play solo. Event cards keep the action flowing and the rules simple, while controlling German strategy and introducing extensive historical detail.

The game includes amphibious landings, German artillery and rocket barrages, US naval bombardment, tides, engineer operations, and intangibles such as US leadership under fire and the initiative of the American GIs. Scenarios: The First Waves — introduces the basics of the game in a recreation of the initial assault. Beyond the Beach — picks up on the high ground at am and adds rules for German tactics.

D-Day at Omaha Beach — covers the entire day, from am to pm. Optional rules explore what-ifs, such as more pre-invasion bombardment or the arrival of German armor. Join Our Mailing List. Thanks in advance. KarateSnoopy 19 Mar, am. Aeronomer, isn't this in the manual PDF? Rob Watkins 7 Feb, pm. There are two counters that have the wrong backs and thus are in the wrong bags. Elektronik12 16 Jan, am.

Reduced token of artillery 62AFA dont have a reverse side. Thanks for mod! Aeronomer 4 Jan, am. Anyone know where you can find the order of battle for the Easy Fox scenario printed? I wait with baited breath. Only found out about this game through your version and I cant stop playing it.

I'd love to play the others, and having a saveable PC version is a winner. Good lucj translating them over. The games are amazing. I put this mod together in anticipation of the physical arriving so that I might learn it ahead of time I lack the patience to wait I also own all of the games I have created mods for. This is the only of the d-day series I own.