The FIRST EVER Wargame Strategy Guide
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The General Magazine may have published the first strategy guide ever for a wargame back in May of 1963. The game it featured was D-Day, a classic game from 1961. What were the strategies it recommended? Tune in to find out.
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#avalonhill #dday
D-DAY portrays the Allied landings in France and the resulting drive to the Rhine. Play takes the form of 50 game turns, each representing one week of real time, during which the Allies must establish a beachhead, breakout, organize a Patton-like dash across France, and sustain 10 divisions across the Rhine in the face of heavy German opposition.
This was the first wargame to feature a hexagonal grid.
There are 195 counters (15 rows of 13 counters per row) which includes some blanks.
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There's something about those old Avalon Hill games that makes me smile.
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
You're not the only one!
@Arizona_Bert
4 күн бұрын
I liked the mountwd map boards better than the plain paper type. I also liked the magazine, The General. But growing up in a poor family, I didn't have that many games until I was in High School in the early 70s.
"...a Patton-like dash across France...' ...with reverse Lend-Lease T-34s, apparently.
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
Whatever gets the job done! :)
@michaelmagnus9
Күн бұрын
@@LegendaryTactics Indeed. I opened my copy of D-Day for the first time in decades after watching your film. I can't say I played it a lot, and not at all once Fortress Europa came out. But I respect it's place in the development of the wargame industry.
I owned D-Day, Gettysburg, Battle of the Bulge, 1914, and Anzio. Not sure what happened to them when I left home to join the Marine Corps in 1974. I now enjoy Campaign Series games as they are most like the old Avalon Hill games. Great trip down memory lane.
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
Awesome! Hopefully those games will turn up one day :)
@JeepWrangler1957
4 күн бұрын
@@LegendaryTactics they are long gone, but I have great memories of gaming on rainy Saturdays with my friends from school
D-Day was our very first war game. Had a lot of fun playing it. Not much as a simulation but a fun game that got some of problems facing the Allies and German forces. Anyone think der Fuhrer would agree to the strategy outlined in the General article?
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
I sincerely doubt it!
I liked Fortress Europa with a set of alternate rules that were in the General.
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
I have heard great things about that game! Haven't tried it yet though. What do you like best about it?
@bobk4438
4 күн бұрын
@@LegendaryTactics I just enjoyed it much better. More flavor maybe? Maybe it was the pretty colors!
I have an original copy of AH DDay. Published the year I was born! Yep, Im old....
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
It's happening to us all, I'm afraid
Hex-Ogganal....La'Hav...(The R E is silent)...La Havre.
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
That's my Canadian accent, eh?
@campbellmj9405
4 күн бұрын
Go watch their legendary Afrika Korps video...😁
What I think is neat about this community is a person like Alan R Moon. While many in the gaming community may know him for creating games like "Ticket To Ride", he was also known for his whimsical articles in the Avalon Hill General magazine!
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
Yes, although I didn't find those articles that funny, they were whimsical
Wonder what happened to Cadet Knabe?
@LegendaryTactics
4 күн бұрын
I googled it, and I may have found his obituary. It looks like he passed away a couple of years ago: www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/springfield-va/carl-knabe-10810992