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D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C)

D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C)

D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C)
Contains 46 cards to enhance your force, field iconic warriors and cutomise your units.

Command Cards allow Flames Of War generals to field iconic warriors, build new types of units, field new types of equipment, enhance your commander’s capabilities, and bring new tactics and strategems to the battlefield.

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D-Day: German
The Germans had spent years building up their defences along the French coast. Behind this Atlantic Wall, a dozen veteran panzer and parachute divisions, rebuilding after desperate battles on the Eastern Front, prepared to throw any Allied landing back into the sea. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the greatest air and sea invasion of the war crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy. Although they were unable to throw the Allies back into the sea, the German forces held back the Allied tide for more than three months in some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War. The battle for Europe had begun in earnest.

Command Cards are entirely optional and can be added to your force in two ways. You can add them to your normal point cost, just as you would add a unit to your force, or you and your opponent can agree on a set amount of points that each may use just to add Command Cards to your lists.

Many Command Cards are hidden until they are used, so you’re never quite sure what your opponent’s battle plans are until they are revealed. While hidden, Command Cards do not affect their attached unit—a player must reveal them if they wish to gain the benefits of the card. Some Command Cards must be revealed at the start of the game; these cards are used to build your army and have the keyword 'Build'.

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The D-Day: German Command Card pack is our first full set of Late War Command cards, like in Mid-War you can add these cards to your force for a point cost listed on the card. But there have been some changes to the Late War Command Cards as well; we have two new types of command cards, Titles and Equipment. Here is a list of what command cards come in the box.

The D-Day: German Command Card List

  • Softskin Transport - Build, Unit
  • Sd Kfz 250 OP - Build, Unit
  • Lucky - Force, Limited
  • Assault Gun Escorts - Build, Formation
  • Pioneer Platoon - Build, Unit
  • Panzer Pioneer Platoon, Build, Unit
  • Goliath Remote Control Bomb - Unit
  • Armoured Flak Half-tracks - Unit
  • Machine-gun Nests - Build, Unit
  • Pakfront - Build, Unit
  • Dug-in Panzer IV - Build, Unit
  • Old Minefields - Force, Limited
  • Looted Tank - Build, Unit
  • Own Goal - Force, Limited
  • Puma Scout Company - Build, Formation
  • Half-track Scout Company - Build, Formation, Limited
  • Screaming Meemies - Force Limited
  • 275th Infantry Division 10.5cm Howitzer - Build, Formation, Title
  • 77th Infantry Divisions, 8.8.cm Tank-hunter - Build, Formation, Title
  • 8.8cm Assault Flak - Build, Force
  • 265th Infantry Division Russian Guns - Build, Formation, Title
  • 8.8cm Tank-hunter - Build, Unit
  • Brummbär - Build, Unit
  • 2nd Panzer Division, Night Attacks - Build, Formation, Title
  • 9th Panzer Division, Rebuilding - Build, Formation, Title

 

  • 116th Panzer Division, Grey Hound - Build, Formation, Title
  • 16th Luftwaffe Field Division, Air Force Soldiers
  • 352nd Infantry Division, Eastern Front - Build, Formation, Title
  • 30th Fast Brigade, Bicycles - Build, Formation, Title
  • Seventh Army, Assault Battalion - Build, Formation, Title
  • 716th Infantry Division, OST Battaliion - Build, Formation, Title
  • 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division, Defence Of Brest - Build, Formation, Title
  • 5th Fallschirmjäger Division, No Jump Training - Build, Formation, Title
  • 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, Von Der Heydte - Build, Formation, Title
  • Tiger Ace - Unit
  • Clever Hans - Tiger Ace Skill
  • Deadly Gunner - Tiger Ace Skill
  • Rapid Fire - Tiger Ace Skill
  • Schnell - Tiger Ace Skill
  • Roll Over Them - Tiger Ace Skill
  • Wilhelm Bäder - Formation, Warrior
  • Heinz Deutsch - Formation, Warrior
  • Friedrich Adrario - Unit, Warrior
  • Heinz Auert - Formation, Warrior
  • Hermann Dropmann - Formation, Warrior
  • Kurt Knispel - Unit, Warrior

Command Card Previews

Beach defence troops gain five different varieties of Title Card, from fast bicycle troops to specialist assault battalions, from reluctant ‘volunteers’ from the prisoner of war camps to the higher-quality 352nd Infantry Division. Your beach defence troops can also enhance their firepower with cheaper, but not as well-trained, artillery, anti-aircraft, and anti-tank options.

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D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C) D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C)

D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C)

D-Day: German Command Cards (FW263C)

The Fallschirmjäger paratroopers add three different titles from the barely-trained 5th Fallschirmjäger Division to von der Heydte’s elite 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment. The panzers round out their options with three more divisions to join the basic Panzer Lehr. These range from the superb 2nd Panzer Division which adopted night attacks to avoid Allied firepower to the barely-trained 116th ‘Greyhound’ Panzer Division.

Other ways in which you can customise your force include crewing your Tiger tanks with aces, allowing your assault guns’ escort platoon to operate as true tank riders, upgrading your infantry to pioneers, armouring your self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, allowing your heavy anti-tank guns to fire as artillery, and creating fortified defences with MG and anti-tank nests, dug-in tanks, and misplaced and forgotten minefields. You can even cause the Allied heavy bombers to score an ‘own goal’, delaying their own reserves!