Date published: 6/1/1978
Designed by: Joe Balkoski
Developed by: Steve Ross
Data: A detailed battalion/company level simulation
of D-Day. Operations include airdrops, naval gunfire support, air power, and
beachhead assaults. Five section map.
Comments:
A big game, with much to offer players. Atlantic
Wall covers the first twenty-six days of the invasion of Europe by Allied
forces in World War II. It is the 'real deal' with invasion turns, and build
up and battle turns once you get on land. It features six scenarios with variable victory
levels and one campaign game where the Allied player can select his goal for
victory .
Details:
Maps: 5 Maps, 1 hex = 1 kilometer, 2000 Counters.
Each counter represents either a Company or Battalion;
a Destroyer, Cruiser, or Battleship; an Air Group or Wing.
Each turn is 4.5 hours of real time.
The system is based on Wacht Am Rhein.
Formats:
This was the last SPI game published in a flat pack (actually a double flat
pack, catalogue # AT - see photo gallery below, though I added 2 additional
trays in that picture.) It quickly changed to a 4" box ( cat# 1980 -
shown above.)
NOTE: There are also the infamous 'Zocchi Boxes.'
Following the fall of the company, where Lou Zocchi had copies of the game
parts, but no boxes, he photocopied the original box covers in black and
white, and then papered the blank boxes with these b&w covers to sell the
games as boxed games.)
Pricing: Advanced pricing was $26; Published at
$28, with jumps each catalogue to $33 by June 1980.
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Magazine |
Issue
# |
Date |
Yr |
Article Type |
Article Name |
Author |
Author2 |
PageNumber |
Moves |
33 |
Jun/Jul |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Designer's
Notes |
|
|
3 |
Moves |
34 |
Aug/Sep |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Designer's
Notes |
|
|
3 |
Moves |
35 |
Oct/Nov |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Designer's
Notes |
|
|
3 |
Moves |
36 |
Dec/Jan |
1978 |
Works in
Progress |
Designer's
Notes |
|
|
3 |
Moves |
40 |
Aug/Sep |
1978 |
Advertisements |
Advertisement: Atlantic Wall |
|
|
31 |
Moves |
42 |
Dec/Jan |
1979 |
Operational Analysis |
A Game of Beaches: Storming Ashore in Atlantic Wall |
Thomas G.
Pratuch |
|
19 |
Moves |
42 |
Dec/Jan |
1979 |
Errata |
Atlantic
Wall: Clarifications and Addenda |
|
|
23 |
Moves |
44 |
Apl/May |
1979 |
Operational Analysis |
Moves in English |
John
Geoffrey Barnard |
|
12 |
Moves |
45 |
Jun/Jul |
1979 |
Review |
Playback |
|
|
33 |
Phoenix |
18 |
Mar/Apr |
1979 |
Operational Analysis |
Atlantic Wall:
An Operational Study |
Tony
Jones |
|
15 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
61 |
Mar/Apl |
1977 |
Feedback |
Feedback
Questions |
|
|
42 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
63 |
Jul/Aug |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Outgoing
Mail - Works in Progress |
Brad
Hessel |
|
2 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
64 |
Sep/Oct |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Outgoing
Mail |
James
Dunnigan |
|
2 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
64 |
Sep/Oct |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Outgoing
Mail |
SPI Staff |
|
20 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
65 |
Nov/Dec |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Works in
Progress - Status of Games |
|
|
18 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
65 |
Nov/Dec |
1977 |
Works in
Progress |
Works in
Progress |
SPI Staff |
|
34 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
66 |
Jan/Feb |
1978 |
Works in
Progress |
Works in
Progress - Update |
Brad
Hessel |
|
18 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
66 |
Jan/Feb |
1978 |
Works in
Progress |
Works in
Progress - Paragraphs |
SPI Staff |
|
20 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
66 |
Jan/Feb |
1978 |
Advertisements |
Atlantic
Wall (Advertisement) |
|
|
44 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
67 |
Mar/Apl |
1978 |
Other Type |
Outgoing
Mail: Big Tsimmis |
Brad
Hessel |
|
2 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
67 |
Mar/Apl |
1978 |
Works in
Progress |
OUTGOING
MAIL: Work in Progress |
SPI Staff |
|
23 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
69 |
Jul/Aug |
1978 |
Advertisements |
Atlantic
Wall (Advertisement) |
|
|
43 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
70 |
Sep/Oct |
1978 |
Feature
Article |
SPI
BestSeller List, May/ June 1978 |
|
|
41 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
71 |
Nov/Dec |
1978 |
Feature
Article |
Active
Projects |
SPI Staff |
|
19 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
71 |
Nov/Dec |
1978 |
Feature
Article |
SPI
BestSeller List, Jul/Aug 78 |
|
|
45 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
72 |
Jan/Feb |
1979 |
Feature
Article |
SPI
Bestseller List Sep/Oct 1978 |
|
|
40 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
73 |
Mar/Apl |
1979 |
Review |
SPI
Bestseller List |
|
|
37 |
Strategy &
Tactics |
74 |
May/Jun |
1979 |
Commentary |
Outgoing
Mail: Keeping the Top Ten Straight |
James
Dunnigan |
|
33 |