Axis and Allies D-Day Pre-Order May 2017

@andrewaagamer

In my first game, there was some battles around Caen, I abandoned Utah Beach (too far from reinforcements), and then Germany threw as many starting forces at that beach as possible, whilst I concentrated my reinforcements on the British and Omaha, who got their reinforcements faster than the Americans-it was a battle of attrition that the British could not win, especially with British tanks defending at two, and once most British forces have been destroyed, the Americans have finally broken out of Utah Beach, and easily took Cherbourg-no matter, the Americans and British couldn’t take Caen or St.Lo.

As for aircraft, I tried to avoid as many artillery pieces as possible (in hindsight, I was overly cautious regarding this), and I concnetrated as many fighters into a single zone as possible.

Another thing I want you to think about is my policy (I control both sides) for both sides, where I delay reinforcements until the single unit (usually a division, but sometimes Werfer brigades), units made up of one piece (such as the British armoured brigades) are moved immediately after deployment. I just like doing this, because I think that reinforcements not be poured in piecemeal and destroyed piecemeal, as I feel like this is what happened in real life (even if it didn’t, I still would like for divisions to operate together, even if individual units aren’t more powerful when operating within their own division. Is that a good idea? I look forward to hearing your response!

Hiya Forum,

Here is a video I have created on youtube of the set up of a timelapse for D Day. I hope it come to some help for you to enjoy the game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG7e_jUPBNI

BH

Well I don’t know about famous as we don’t get a ton of feedback but the first round of our game of Global from Remembrance Day was our most downloaded.

@conanthelibrarian:

While I’m on here, any other of the smaller AA games (like battle of the bulge) that you guys recommend?  Im playing this with my 8 year old, and I like that he can understand and play with me.

Thanks alot.

@Krieghund:

D-Day is the easiest A&A game of all.  Battle of the Bulge and Guadalcanal are a little bit more involved.  However, if your son can handle D-Day, maybe he can handle one of those as well.  I think I’d try Bulge before Guadalcanal.  If you do, let him be the Germans, as it’s harder to play the Allies in that game.

I’d agree with this. Looking at the rules it might seem Guadalcanal is ‘simpler’ but you have to make many more “if I do this what will my opponent do,” decisions a lot faster and GCNL eliminates the reinforcement charts creating a daunting set of decisions regarding reinforcements.

If you are also new to BOTB playing the Allies will be a good handicap for you as it is tougher to play the Allies and will be easier and more interesting for him as the Axis on the attack.

I’d wait till you’re bored with D-Day though.

@Gewehr:

: Why do the Germans have no fighters? To me they should atleast have 1 in the reinforcements box.

The Luftwaffe was not a factor on DDay!!

www.flames-of-europe.de dicey now supports D-Day! Anyone up for a game? You can get the ABattlemap module at www.axisandallies.us/add

“The Allies can’t lose , you just park aircraft over the central city and annihilate anything that tries to get into it.The other two cities are either swamped by the British , or cut off by the Americans….”

this is what i found. Allies park 4 planes into caen and 4 planes into St lo literally the entire game. half of all german artillery  sent in is anihilated by the straffing the other half his cleared by the ground forces before the germans even get the chance to fire at them. the only advantage is the allies run out of reinforcements faster but its evened out by the carnage the germans suffer from the airplanes

cant u have the german fighters strafe when the axis attack u could resolve fighter combat like reg combat but have it 3 or less