101: The Airborne Invasion Of Normandy

101: The Airborne Invasion Of Normandy PC CD control squad strategy war game! Type: Game Platform: Windows Publisher: Empire Released: 1998 Media: CD Based on the D-Day landings in Normandy. Assemble a group of guys, dope out weapons, airdrop, lose a decent chunk of your men and weapons to flak, try to find where you are and then try to accomplish your mission. 101 Airborne: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy is a much-overlooked and now out-of-print squad-level wargame from Empire Interactive.Over the past few years there have been a number of squad-based simulations, typically of the science fiction variety (with X-COM being the most famous of the bunch). But wargamers - with the Breach series, Close Combat and its ilk, and Soldiers at War - have also had their share. Soldiers at War, developed by Random Games and SSI, was a decent World War II tactical game although marred by the single-mission format, some strange gameplay mechanics, and a few other things that kept it from bei