It’s the morning of June 6, 1944. As Allied forces prepare to storm Normandy’s beaches, the fate of Europe is in your hands! In honor of next year’s 60th anniversary of D-Day, Avalon Hill will release Axis & Allies D-Day, a new, stand-alone extension of the classic strategy game Axis & Allies. Axis & Allies D-Day will allow players to recreate the largest amphibious invasion in history.
Scheduled for release in May 2004, Axis and Allies D-Day
will feature detailed game components including a new blockhouse piece,
an extra-large game board, and original artwork commissioned
exclusively for the D-Day game box. Other elements of this new Axis & Allies
variant include a card deck with three card types -- Orders, Tactics,
and Fortune -- to add depth and complexity to play. Order cards
determine play sequence and break turns into distinct phases; Tactics
cards offer players varied strategic opportunities; and Fortune cards
add an element of unpredictability.
Axis & Allies D-Day begins as Operation Overlord, the
invasion of German-held Normandy, is underway -- 130,000 soldiers of
the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States are poised to assault
Fortress Europe. You and your fellow world powers control their fates.
One player controls Germany, whose Axis forces have turned the
beaches of Normandy into a near-impenetrable stronghold. Set to breach
those defenses are the Allies: the United Kingdom, Canada, and the
United States. The future of Europe and the world hangs in the balance.
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