[dropcap style=”style1″]H[/dropcap]eroes of Normandie is strategy game that’s fast-paced, easy to pick up but with a good amount of complexity, and strongly echoes its board game roots.

Vietgame.asia – Heroes of Normandie, an iPad and PC game coming soon from strategy overlords, Slitherine, first saw the light of day as a board game that attempted to turn Hollywood-film bombast into a board game about WWII.

Heroes of Normandie has three different armies and three campaigns and boasts a system that lets you bluff your way to victory since there are more units on the board than available moves, so your opponent never knows what you’ll decide to do next.

Developer Iello built Heroes of Normandie more like a game system than a single game and have already developed more campaigns for the game. As you can see from the trailer below, the game really kept its board game feel in the transition to digital.

There’s the Shadows Over Normandie expansion that uses the original system to let you set your WWII soldiers against all kinds of monsters, including the ancient Deep Ones coming to the iPad.

The PC version is releasing early September, which means that we should probably get the iPad version a couple of months after that. If you enjoy strategy games in the vein of Mark H. Walker’s Lock ‘n Load series or are just looking for a quick, entertaining strategy game, Heroes of Normandie might just do the trick.

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Thanks, Touch Arcade.

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