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| Manufacturers | Avalon Hill |
|---|---|
| Designers | Larry Harris Mike Selinker |
| Publishers | Wizards of the Coast |
| Players | 2–3 |
| Chance | Medium |
| Skills | Dice rolling Strategic thought Team play |
| Website | Official website |
Axis & Allies: D-Day is the fifth version of thestrategy board-gameAxis & Allies, released on June 11, 2004 as a celebration of the 60th anniversary ofD-Day during World War II. It lets two to three players recreateOperation Overlord or D-Day scenarios during June–July 1944. It was designed byLarry Harris and developed byMike Selinker. The game won theOrigins AwardGamers’ Choice Award 2004.[1]
The United States, Canada, and United Kingdom land troops atUtah,Omaha,Gold,Juno andSword beaches while Nazi Germany tries to push them back and keep control of the citiesCherbourg,Saint-Lô, andCaen. If the allies haven't captured all three cities within ten turns, Germany wins. The allies start with no victory cities in their possession.
Instead of purchasing units, players get them by placing units on "Reinforcement Charts" and then moving them to the play board. The play board also has unit silhouettes which shows how you should set up the game, instead of charts with many numbers. It makes the game much easier, less complicated, and less time-consuming. With the help ofparatroopers andamphibious assaults, the allies send over troops to breach theAtlantic Wall. A new unit is the Pillbox, a little fortress with artillery inside that fires at troops about to land on the beach. Otherwise, it is all the original pieces without chips for indication of multiple units. In order to deal with the possibilities of excess numbers of units, an eight-unit limit has been enacted to prevent overcrowding of the territories.
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