Fortune and Tactic cards: how do they work?

@Krieghund

Thank you! Okay, so I did interpret it correctly the first time.

@Sebskullian-0 you can find these games on ebay for not too much.

Yes and yes. Note, however, that per the FAQ Allied artillery in beachheads may not bombard.

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Order-Cards–Sealed-Deck-D-Day_p_130.html

Found this at Boardgamegeek. I don’t seem to be registered there :| so I haven’t DL’ed it but : Reinforcement cards pdf at Boardgamegeek.

D-day is the only A&A game with cards other than setup or things like unit stats in minis. D-day is much shorter than most maybe all other games. I don’t think any of the games I’ve played have been longer than three hours and I would guess much shorter like 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 and 1 half hours.

While I’ve never played Memoir '44, I have played Battlecry which is a similar system and the cards are not really similar. There are three sets of cards: Order, Fortune and Tactics. The Order cards are the only ones you must play with and they are basically the phases of the turn. As the game progress some of the phases no longer happen and those cards can be removed from the game.

The Fortune and Tactics cards are optional. Tactics cards give you a one shot benefit to be used during a particular order. You use them once and they are removed and can’t be used again. Fortune cards ask you to roll a die. Depending on the outcome of the roll one side will gain a benefit or suffer a hinderance. Fortune cards come up everytime you come to the Order card they are associated with. If the order no longer applies then the Fortune card can be removed as well.

I think D-Day is a nice game and it is a good intro to A&A for younger players or a nice quick game if you want to play more than one.

I would like to first draw your attention here if you haven’t found it already.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/faqs/axisdday

The blockhouses can not be destroyed by any succesful roll during execution of this order. You will only be able to kill German tanks, infanty and artillery.

You will likely have noticed the naval bombardment card which allows you to only target blockhouses. Later during the Alles conduct combat card you will be able to destroy anything hit -tanks, infantry, artillery or blockhouses.

All artillery of your nationality(s) can fire but you may only target 1 unit with 1 artillery…

And welcome to AaA.org Simon!

GG