2014 · Ajax Games
(Version française ci-dessous.)
In 1944, during the night of 5th to 6th June, paratroopers of the British 6th Airborne achieved three heroic missions that made possible the D-Day Normandy Landings on the East sector (Gold, Juno and Sword beaches).
In Operation Commando - Pegasus Bridge, one player leads the English commandos, while his opponent is in charge of the defending German troops.
Each turn, on a different battlefield (each ground having specific characteristics), players draw cards (each player has his own deck), can play events, and then an assault begins. The German plays a unit; the English answers with a unit, that must have a Combat value equal or higher than the German unit's, or reach it thanks to boosts. If it does, the German can boost his unit, then the English, and so on until a player stops. A unit's combat value can be raised by combat action cards and tokens (one side +1 Combat, one blank side) taken from the player's tokens reserve and flipped.
If the English's unit is destroyed, he loses one of his 3 Manpower Points (MP) but moves to the next ground (the assault ends, as does the turn on this ground). If the German's unit is destroyed, he can play another one (depending on the ground's size) and the assault goes on. If the English destroys all enemy units present on the ground, he wins the assault and progresses without losing a MP.
Players also have a pool of special cards, the powerful "heroic" cards, from which they secretely choose one card to add to their hand each two turns. Since heroic cards have potent effects and can't be countered, choosing them well depending on the situation of the game is strategically very important. These cards feature actual historical officers and events.
