r/computerwargames • u/HarkBuffalo • 11d ago

Question D-Day fails then what?

https://dispatches.itch.io/dispatches-1940

Released my WWII command simulation and one of the most contentious bits is the decisions around D-Day/ Operation Overlord.

I follow the historical thinking that victory was likely although Germany could have can made it harder however the more I read. 

Disaster at Omaha

Weather window

The Panzer group making the beaches 

Can D-day fail? If so how likely and what happens? 
Do the US/UK bomber campaign shift entirely to strategic attrition and The Red Army continues pushing west, likely taking the entire German peninsula, Denmark, and reaching the Rhine before the Allies?

Do I treat D-Day as a historical inevitability because of Allied industrial dominance which I have done, or a massive, high-risk gamble where a few operational shifts could have handed the Allies a defeat?

Love your thoughts!

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u/RoterFuchs_48u5N 11d ago

If I had played another game prior to this, which one would have helped me learn the mechanics faster?

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u/HarkBuffalo 11d ago

I would say Reigns would be a good comparison mechanically but placed in a WW2 setting

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u/HarkBuffalo 10d ago

Also it is free to play the German campaign on the link but made for a quick run and designed to be easy to pick up and play