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The Strategic Studies Group of Australia, responsible for games like Carriers At War and Europe Ablaze, now has a sole UK importer in Stratgic Software Plus of Middlesex, which should make their games more easily available.

Battles In Normandy is an operational Corps level game of eight scenarios covering the major battles of the campaign before the breakout: the American airdrop at Carantan, the crucial landings at Omahah, Utah and Sword beaches, the American drive on Cherbourg, and the three British attempts to take Caen in the Villers-Bocage, Epsom and Goodwood offensives.

There is also, as normal with SSG games, a design routine enabling players to develop their own scenarios.

If all this sounds like a development of the earlier SSG Corps-level game Battlefront, then that's because that is exactly what it is. Scenarios developed on Battlefront will run on Battles In Normandy and vice versa.

SSG provide, as a rule, expensive but high-quality games. Battles In Normandy is well below their normal standard.