Paper Wars 108: Three D-Days

Paper Wars #108 – Three D-Days 1942, 1943, 1944

Publisher: Compass Games
Series: Paper Wars
Type: Magazine + complete game
Designer: Ty Bomba
Players: 1–2
Complexity: Low–Medium
Playing Time: One session
Language: English
Period: World War II (historical + hypothetical)

Topic

Three D-Days explores three versions of Allied landings in Western Europe:

     1944 (historical): From the Normandy landings (June 6, 1944) to the failure of Operation Market Garden.

     1943 (what-if): Western Europe invasion instead of the Salerno landings.

     1942 (what-if): Operation Sledgehammer, a proposed invasion if the Soviet Union faced collapse.

Game System

Operational-level game covering France, the Benelux and western Germany to the Ruhr.

Scale: 20 miles per hex

Turn scale: 1 week per turn

Units: Corps and Armies

Can be adapted for solitaire play.

Components

• Large hex map (3/4”) of Western Europe
  
  1 counter sheet (~280 NATO-style half-inch counters)
  
  Paper Wars #108 magazine
  
  Historical articles and support material.