Assuming you advanced slowly and kept a careful lookout for the Panzerfaustists that occasionally popped up from hedgerows like malevolent dormice, you were almost certain to prevail.ĭ-Day's trickiest tasks were its aerial ones. Sedentary panzers blighted the armour sim interludes too. Close Combat calibre sophistication in 1992 would have been asking rather a lot (CC precursor Iron Cross was still a couple of years away) but grumbles about the static enemies, scant fog-of-war, perverse pathfinding, and omnipotent Allied mortarmen (smart players quickly discovered that bomb-tossers were the only units they needed) were not unreasonable. The strat map-sparked real-time skirmishes suffered particularly badly. Questionable design decisions undermined D-Day's dazzling diversity. Sadly, most of the tension and drama was not. The colour and scale of the June 6th, 1944 invasion was definitely there. You bounced from issuing orders on a huge nodal map of the Normandy coast to guiding individual soldiers around isometric battlefields lousy with Panthers and pillboxes. Bursts of first-person Sherman tank simulation mingled with sorties in viewed-from-behind B-17 bombers. The French devs spent three years coding an offering as multifaceted as a Mk 2 hand grenade.
Operation Overlord entertainments don't come more all-encompassing than Futura's 1992 folly, D-Day. In today's Flare Path I mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings by spotlighting a clutch of D-Day diversions that dared to be different.
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