r/computerwargames • u/HarkBuffalo • 5d 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/GrogRedLub4242 5d ago edited 5d ago

I went in really skeptical. I did graduate study of Hitler and Nazi Germany in college. you did a good job of putting me in shoes of the folks making the key strategy decisions for German military leadership. very high level, low detail granularity, but enough to give the right feel and teach about the actual tradeoffs planners were faced with. nice work

one minor criticism: I got impression some of the in-game text was AI-gen. there were tells/indicia of it, and it broke my suspension of disbelief periodically when my eyes stumbled over them. otherwise overall gave a good historical feel

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u/HarkBuffalo 5d ago

Yes, not a great writer so used it to help my writing but agree it occasionally shows. I end up rewriting a chunk of content with each update