From the opening minutes of D-Day to the liberation of Paris and beyond - Memoir '44 airdrops you into the key battles that turned the tide in Western Europe. Take command at some of the most historic battles of WWII including: Omaha Beach... Pegasus Bridge... Operation Cobra... and the Ardennes.
Memoir '44 is a unique historical boardgame with luxurious miniatures that celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. Easy to learn and fast-paced, the game requires strategic card play, timely dice rolling and an aggressive, yet flexible battle plan to achieve victory!
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Anonymous (3 out of 5)
I like the simplicty Memoir 44 brings to table top war gaming. I'm not one who wants to sit down for three days to play some of the other war games. I also like how the different scenarios in the box basically give you 16 different games.
- 9/20/2004
Shin Yoo (5 out of 5)
I finally received the much anticipated D-Day game, Memoir '44. Avalon Hill already made A&A : D-Day, a "tactical" game based on the basic A&A system. Ironically, Memoir '44 uses the basic system of AH's Battle Cry!. I think the designer, Richard Borg, likes this game system quite much - after finishing Memoir '44 with Days of Wonder, he's doing an ancient battle game with GMT(Commanders & Colors : Ancients) based on the same system. It seems like several games will be made on this game system, which clearly is a good news.
If you know Battle Cry!, this game uses the same movement/combat system with cards and dice, so you won't need any explanation about the basics. If you don't, do
...Read the rest of this review - 7/28/2004
Tom Vasel (5 out of 5)
I’m sure that there are many, many game company executives who wish that they were running Days of Wonder right now. Days of Wonder has set the bar extremely high for their games, and it’s showing in a big way. Ticket to Ride has just won the Spiel des Jahres 2004, and their newest game, Memoir ’44 (Days of Wonder, 2004 - Richard Borg) is selling off the shelves faster than any other game I’ve seen. Memoir was definitely one of the hits of Origins 2004, where I saw people playing it everywhere.
Is this popularity deserved? The answer is that Memoir ’44 is the pinnacle - the absolute best of light war games. With the tried-and-true system Borg invented in Battle Cry perfected - Memoir ’4
...Read the rest of this review - 7/15/2004
kakupacal (5 out of 5)
Amazing! This small game manages to take the fun of huge, sprawling chit-based warfare and reduce it to a manageable, simple game system that offers tons of difficult decisions compressed within a very short gametime. I especially enjoy the "communication breakdown" that often comes out of the lack of a card needed to activate a particular unit at a particular time... strategy is still behind everything you do but you can't discount the element of luck and the chaos of the battlefield in your battleplan.
- 6/28/2004
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