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Lead a squad of 18 paratroopers behind enemy lines in this strategy-based simulation of squad level combat based on the D-Day landings in Normandy. Controlling everything from attacks on the enemy to finding your next meal, 101: The 101st Airborne in Normandy is thinking man's skirmish combat.- Multi-play via modem, LAN, or Internet (2 players only)
- 238 individual maps make up the Normandy "World". In addition there are 9 campaigns each containing 42 maps
- Up to 21 missions in any one of the 9 campaigns, pitting your squad against up to 140 Germans per campaign, and giving hours of game time
- Choose your team from 82 unique soldiers (48 paratroopers, 24 Germans, 10 "secondary" characters) each individually proficient in 13 different areas of combat.
- Recognisable by his unique voice, each paratrooper is also unique in his abilities and personality
- Initiative-Based Phased Action combines the detail of turn-based gaming with aspects of ease of use of real-time gaming engines
- Damage modelling based on WWII studies of wounds and damage inflicted, accurately represents wounds tracked to 47 different body locations, affecting troopers appropriately.
- Over 1400 soldier animations and over 40 3D cut scene animations
- Incredibly varied obstacles, including...
- Parachuting into enemy-held landing zones
- Separation of your squad and your equipment
- Being lost !
- Finding food
- Running out of ammunition
- Fighting the Germans without support
- Caring for your wounded
- Historically accurate weapons and equipment
- Accurate topography of the Norman countryside: everything from flooded hedgerows to French villages
- Randomised campaigns allow for virtually limitless replayability
Contributed by Jeanne 
(58583) on Jun 28, 2009.
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Lead a squad of 18 paratroopers behind enemy lines in this strategy-based simulation of squad level combat based on the D-Day landings in Normandy. Controlling everything from attacks on the enemy to finding your next meal, 101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy takes wargaming to a new level.
Contributed by Richard Arnesen (15) on Jun 19, 2000.
