D-Day Dice at Essen Spiel 2017
November 5, 2017 by brennon
Ben gets some time to play D-Day Dice from Word Forge Games at Essen 2017. In D-Day Dice, players are Allied soldiers trying to organize improvised units for an attack against the machine gun nest.
Each player starts the game with a unit of a few soldiers and nothing else. As the game progresses, he will collect resources and advance on the beach, sector by sector, as his unit grows stronger and deadlier. He will succeed...or die trying.
D-Day Dice is a multiplayer co-op game, where all players play their turn simultaneously and must help each other in order to stay alive.
It also includes solitaire optional rules. Although built around dice rolling, this game is about resource management (soldiers, specialists, items and courage) and knowing when to move your unit. Resources are kept from turn to turn, so the players can plan ahead.
Can Ben re-write history or will he perish along the shore?
The original game from 2012 came with 8 maps. The dice look the same. The cards look the same. Besides being out of print, it will be interesting to see what they will have with the 2018 version of the game.
More than anything I think they’re just trying to make sure the game gets back out there into circulation – it was a lot of fun playing and I’m looking forward to giving it another go properly.
Campaign delayed slightly by Kickstarter themselves (Think they closed for Veterans weekend, but preview is here for more info – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wordforgegames/360496660?ref=386699&token=a6b20d31