Axis and Allies D-Day Pre-Order May 2017


  • @LincolnHawk:

    Why is there no official announcement from Avalon Hill on this?   Something to build excitement

    It may not be a new development.  I picked up a copy of D-Day at a local retail game store just one or two years ago, and this wasn’t a shop that sells antiques.  I can’t recall what the cover logo looked like, but the British pieces inside were in the current tan colour rather than in the cream colour of the original D-Day release (which I remember quite well because I’d bought that extra copy in the hope of getting more cream-coloured UK units, since I own an old copy of the game).  I also think (but I’m not sure) that the German tanks were the new-version Panthers rather than the old ones. So it’s possible that D-Day has been reprinted on-and-off over the years and that this is just another reprint.


  • @LincolnHawk:

    Why is there no official announcement from Avalon Hill on this?   Something to build excitement

    It’s not new, it’s just a re-print with the new logo added. They aren’t going to announce reprints usually. (note: some companies do and will announce reprints but AH does not).
    At best they let the distributors and wholesalers know and they in turn let their retailers know it’s coming.


  • I’ve attached below a picture I took yesterday of my old D-Day box and of the reprint I bought in 2013.

    Also attached is a picture I took of the units that were in the reprint.  The flash distorted the colours a bit; the pieces are in the current standard colours (Germany = black, UK = beige) rather than in the original D-Day colours (Germany = gunmetal blue, UK = cream).

    D-Day Printings.jpg
    Units in 2013 D-Day Purchase.jpg


  • The game is released and is ready for shipping.

  • '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12

    Well just go ahead and re-produce Anniversary then why don’t ya?

  • '19 '18 '17

    My Amazon order was just updated with a delivery date, so this is indeed happening.

    Seems odd and out of the blue to re-release D-Day – does this mean there are plans to get Guadalcanal and BotB back in print, too?


  • @Dajokr:

    Seems odd and out of the blue to re-release D-Day – does this mean there are plans to get Guadalcanal and BotB back in print, too?

    I doubt it.  D-Day has a track record of being reprinted from time to time.  Bulge and Guadalcanal don’t.


  • @hkytown1:

    Well just go ahead and re-produce Anniversary then why don’t ya?

    LOL, nice prediction.


  • Oh man those games are awful - complete disconnect from standard A&A Rules and on way smaller scales (Battle, Theater whatever).  The cover art on all of them are an embarrassing downgrade from what came AFTER them.  That artist sucks, check out the cover of A&A Revised (one of the worst A&A skus ever produced) it has a fucking Mussolini on it.  Wizards works with literally hundreds of artists for Magic and D&D and they cant get a new cover?  That runs like 3-4 grand, wow they are lazy.

    The cover of Battle of the Bulge has a friggin Nazi featured on it - and the tanks had to be corrected as the guy literally drew tanks from the Patton film (which were M48s & M41s) originally.  Thanks to a wonderful designer, those tanks were doppleganged into Tiger IIs and so don’t look so bad.  The only reason D-Day ever stayed in print is coz it’s cheap and so TRU “carried” it for a while.  Save your money these games are terribad.

  • '18 '17

    Great for new players who what to give these older games a try!  :-)

    For player/collectors like myself, I feel a sudden drop in the price of my collectible copies…  :|

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