Download Battle for Normandy

More than 28700 old games to download for free!

Battle for Normandy

DOS - 1983

Also available on: Apple II - Atari 8-bit - Commodore 64

Year 1983
Platform DOS
Released in United States
Genre Strategy
Theme Historical Battle (specific/exact), World War II
Publisher Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Developer Tactical Design Group
Perspectives Side view, Top-Down
4.29 / 5 - 7 votes

Description of Battle for Normandy

One of SSI's earliest games, Battle for Normandy is a hex-based, turn-based wargame based on more or less the same engine as Tiger in the Snow and Knights in the Desert. That is to say: ASCII characters, coded entirely in BASIC.

Your goal in operation "Overlord" is to command the Allied forces in the historic D-Day in World War II: take and occupy Cherbourg, Caen, the road network of St. Lo, and penetrate as deeply as possible into the continent. You can play as the Axis side, but in that case you will have to play against another human player in hot-seat mode: the game does not have "computer as Allied" option.

True to the usual turn-based style, the game proceeds in a logical, orderly fashion, from choosing air supply drops, allocating supplies, expend "air points" for interdiction, and move units. The game gives you full tables for transport availability of each day, as well as weather forecasts. Battle for Normandy is one of the earliest PC wargames to model the effects of fatigue and leadership levels. Units that advance beyond supply lines will quickly lose strength and gain fatigue, and leadership acts as a positive combat modifier.

Similar to other SSI games, you can change the difficulty level and scenario parameters, although there is only one map to play, which severely limits the replay value. You may want to replay the game to try to gain higher victory points than the last time, but that is the only replay incentive.

Although it does not stand the test of time too well and has long been superceded by true classics such as Clash of Steel, Battle for Normandy still stands tall as a pioneer in the then-budding field of computer wargames, a field dominated clearly by SSI in the early 1980s. For a 1982 BASIC game, Battle of Normandy is not bad at all despite its limitations.

Review By HOTUD

External links

Comments and reviews

:-D 2018-10-27 0 point DOS version

The game won't work :(

Write a comment

Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Battle for Normandy, read the abandonware guide first!

 

Download Battle for Normandy

No file available as requested by the IP owner. Stay tuned for a Steam or GOG release - can take years though.

Similar games

Fellow retro gamers also downloaded these games:

Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second Scenario abandonware
Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second ScenarioDOS, C64, Apple II, FM-7, PC-88, PC-981987
Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the Princess abandonware
Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the PrincessDOS, C64, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, FM-7, PC-881982
BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat abandonware
BattleTech: A Game of Armored CombatGenesis1994
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception abandonware
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's InceptionDOS, C64, Amiga, Apple II1988
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War, Vol. 2 abandonware
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War, Vol. 2DOS, C64, Apple II1989
Battleship abandonware
BattleshipDOS1991

Ad Consent Terms About Contact FAQ Useful links Contribute Taking screenshots How to play

MyAbandonware utopiaweb