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Normandy: The Invasion of Europe 1944 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1969 that simulates the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy, and the six days that followed as the German forces tried to prevent an Allied break-out. A second revised edition was published in 1971
D-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1961 that simulates the six months of the European Campaign of World War II from the Normandy Invasion to the crossing of the Rhine. It was the first wargame to feature the now ubiquitous hex grid map and cardboard counters, and was revised and re-released in 1962, 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991.
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 is a free modification developed by Darklight Games, and The Darkest Hour Team for Tripwire Interactive's multiplayer first-person shooter video game Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, It is based on the Western Front during World War II between 1944 and 1945, depicting the conflict between Allied and German forces.
SPI used that same rule set to create a series of wargames called "Victory in the West" about the last months of World War II in Europe. The first of these was Patton's 3rd Army , a pull-out game published in Strategy & Tactics No. 78 (January–February 1980) that was designed by Joseph M. Balkoski, with graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen ...
Games flow smoothly and, more often than not, quickly." Reviewing the combination of Lebensraum and West Front, Pugulski wrote, "What sets Lebensraum/West Front apart from other strategic level, World war II European Theater games is the economic dimension. Indeed, it is the focus of the game, forcing military concerns into a position of ...
In 1974, game designer Jim Dunnigan designed War in the East, a large game (3 maps, 2000 counters) to simulate the eastern front of World War II. The result was what critic Jon Freeman called "an ungainly beast with two thousand counters and poorly written rules. If anyone ever finished it, the fact has gone unreported."
Work on a Europa-style game covering the campaign in East Africa had already been underway by a group calling itself "The East Africa Map Company", and it now became an official Europa project to be published as Wavell's War, covering all of World War II not only in East Africa, but in North Africa and the Mediterranean as well. It was offered ...
Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 was released in December 2009 and Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 was released in August of 2010. These games can be combined to form a Global game of World War II on a 175×80 cm (70" × 32") map.