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The briefing

Eighteen missions,
over 40 unit types,
and no way back

Platoon '44: Normandy is a real-time tactics game that plays in your browser. Jump into the dark over the Cotentin, lead the first waves onto Utah and Omaha, and fight your way inland through the hedgerows to the Vire and the last stand at Mortain, across ground built from the real map of Normandy.

Operation Overlord · Summary

Theater
Normandy, France
D-Day
June 6, 1944
H-Hour
6:30 AM, Utah Beach
Your command
Rifle companies, Rangers, paratroopers and armor
Objective
Off the beach and on to the Vire
Ads
None, ever
Release
              
01

The real ground

Up to ten kilometers of Normandy on a map, built from survey data: the bluffs, the bocage, the villages and the rivers where they really are.

02

Every man counts

Hundreds of soldiers on the field at once, and every one of them runs on AI we built so that each man thinks for himself. He finds his own cover, answers the fire coming at him, and carries the fight on when the orders run out.

03

A spectacle a mission

A night drop under searchlights, the landing craft at dawn, gliders and B-17s overhead, a river crossing in the mist, and tanks in open country.

04

No ads. No installs.

No ads anywhere in the game, no download and no installer. Open the page and the war is there, on a laptop or a gaming rig.

The campaigns

From the drop zones
to Mortain

Three campaigns and eighteen missions on five maps: twelve fought on the ground and six flown in the air, each with its own ground, its own vehicles and its own way to win or lose.

Utah Beach

101st Airborne · 4th Infantry Division · June 6 to 13, 1944
Paratroopers going out of the door over the Cotentin at night
Mission 01
12:30 AM · June 6

Prelude: Night of Nights

Out the door over the Cotentin, scattered behind Utah Beach. Take Sainte-Mère-Église, silence the guns at Brécourt and hold the causeway exits before the ramps come down.

B-26 Marauders over the Cotentin at dawn
Mission 02 · In the air
6:05 AM · June 6

Marauders at Dawn

B-26s on the Utah strongpoints before H-Hour.

Infantry running up the sand at Utah Beach
Mission 03
6:30 AM · June 6

The Longest Day

Utah Beach, Tare Green and Uncle Red. Sherman DD tanks swim in with the waves. Get up the causeway and link up with the airborne.

Mustangs over the landing craft off Utah Beach
Mission 04 · In the air
4:00 PM · June 6

Fleet Cover

Guard the ships off Utah and silence the guns.

Paratroopers moving up the road into Carentan
Mission 05
June 12

Carentan

Down the causeway, into the town, and hold the road against the counterattack.

A German assault gun coming up a hedgerow lane
Mission 06
Dawn · June 13

Bloody Gulch

Meet the counterattack, hold Carentan, retake Hill 30.

Omaha Beach

116th Infantry · 29th Infantry Division · June 6 to 7, 1944
B-17 Flying Fortresses over the cloud
Mission 01 · In the air
6:00 AM · June 6

The Mighty Eighth

B-17s over Utah and on through the cloud to Omaha.

Landing craft running in to Omaha Beach under fire
Mission 02
7:48 AM · June 6

Meatgrinder

Omaha. Dog Red and Easy Green under a fifty-meter bluff, every gun manned. Cross the sand, get off the shingle and up the draw.

A glider on tow over the Normandy coast
Mission 03
Late morning · June 6

Beachhead

The beach is ours. Bring the army in and push inland.

B-17 bombers releasing over the bocage
Mission 04
Dawn · June 7

Bombing Run

Clear the flak on their schedule, before the bombers arrive.

A German fighter over the bocage at dusk
Mission 05 · In the air
Evening · June 7

Air Umbrella

Hold the sky over Omaha until dark.

Breakout

30th Infantry Division · July to August 1944
A tank in the wheat above the Vire valley at first light
Mission 01
First light · July 7

The Vire

Across the river at dawn, in rubber boats, under the gorge.

A Thunderbolt low over the fields
Mission 02 · In the air
10:00 AM · July 27

Armed Recon

Drop the Vire bridges and catch the columns.

Mustangs and B-17s over the Vire
Mission 03 · In the air
9:00 AM · August 1

Little Friends

Take the B-17s across the lines and bring them home.

Infantry crossing a field toward the town
Mission 04
Dusk · August 1

Tessy

The town on the river, street by street.

A tank destroyer firing across a misty river
Mission 05
Morning · August 2

The Ridge

Up the slope at Beuvrigny, behind a creeping barrage.

Tanks on the road to Domjean at sunset
Mission 06
Morning · August 3

The Domjean Road

Armor on both sides in open country, and a back door to find.

The chapel in the woods on Hill 317
Mission 07
Before dawn · August 7

Mortain

One battalion cut off on Hill 317, and four Panzer divisions coming up the slopes.

Game features

The field manual,
abridged

What you can expect when you take command: what you see, how you give orders, who you fight beside and against, and why no two battles go the same way.

01 · View modes

Command at every height

The camera height is your rank. Close in, a click takes one squad; pull back and it takes a platoon, then a company, then the whole battalion. Pick men one at a time, by unit, or everything under the cursor. Ride along with the aircraft over the drop zones, open the operations map, or switch to cinematic mode and just watch it unfold.

SquadPlatoonCompanyBattalionFollow camOps mapCinematic
02 · Controls

Orders that land where you point

Right-click to move, drag to set the way they face when they arrive, right-click an enemy to engage him, double-click to send them running. The cursor tells you what a click will do before you make it, so an attack is never a surprise.

03 · Missions and objectives

Eighteen missions, never the same twice

Each mission opens on an intelligence map with the enemy's lines and advice from High Command. Then you plan your waves and spend War Bonds on reinforcements, armor and air strikes. Garrisons, counterattacks and timings shift from one play to the next, and in the campaign the men who survive come with you.

04 · Friendly and enemy AI

Every man thinks for himself

Your soldiers find their own cover, answer the fire coming at them, drag the wounded to the medics and carry on when the orders run out. The German commander reads the battle too: he reinforces what is threatened, counterattacks what is weak, and digs his tanks in when you come at them.

05 · Suppressing fire

Pin them, then move

Bullets do more than kill. A machine gun on a hedge puts a whole section on its belly, and pinned men shoot wild and will not advance. Lay down fire, screen the open ground with smoke, call mortars and the 105s onto the position, and send the next squad around the flank while the enemy keeps his head down.

06 · Buildings and cover

Hold the house, take the street

Put a squad into a farmhouse and they fight from the windows. Storm a building the enemy holds and your men fight their way in through the door. Hedgerows, stone walls, shell holes and foxholes all count, and a dug-in rifleman is very hard to shift. Shellfire can bring a house down.

07 · Vehicles

Armor that behaves like armor

A shell either goes through the plate or it does not, depending on the gun, the range and the angle it strikes. Tracks get blown and repair crews weld them back on. Tanks dig in hull-down. Sherman DDs swim ashore with the waves, LSTs beach and unload, and engineers lay a treadway bridge wherever you draw it across a river.

Sherman and Sherman DDStuartM10Half-tracksTrucks and jeepsTreadway bridgesPanzer IVPantherTigerStuG III
08 · Air and artillery

Call it in

Thunderbolts and RAF Typhoons strafe and rocket what your men can see, B-17s bomb the box you draw, gliders and C-47s bring in the airborne, and a 105 mm battery fires wherever you send it. The flak shoots back, and it can bring a fighter down in flames.

09 · Medics and engineers

The men behind the line

Medics treat the wounded where they fall, aid stations send litter jeeps out for them, and men who are patched up go back to their squads. Repair trucks put damaged armor back in the fight, and command posts and bivouacs keep a company together.

10 · Replay value

Free Play and Skirmish

Free Play gives you every unit on every map to stage any battle you like. Skirmish deals a fresh field each time and a German commander to fight over it. Weather rolls in and out, day turns to night, and your battles save to continue later.

Field orders · Quick reference

W A S DPan the map
QERotate
WheelZoom and set your command level
Right-clickMove or engage
Right-dragMove and face
BGarrison a building
FDig in
CSmoke
TFire mission
HHold
RDouble time
ZFormation
MOperations map
SpacePause
−=Game speed
F9Cinematic mode
Order of battle

Know your men,
know theirs

Studio renders of the actual models you command and fight in the game. Swipe through, or pick a side.

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System requirements

What it takes
to hold the line

Platoon '44 runs in your browser with nothing to download, but a battle of seven hundred men, armor and artillery asks real work of your machine. Here is what plays it well.

Recommended

Gaming PC or laptop

60 fps on High in the biggest battles

Graphics
A dedicated graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or RTX 2060, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, or better
Processor
6 cores or more
Memory
16 GB
Screen
1080p or higher
Minimum

Everyday laptop

30 fps on Low

Graphics
Recent integrated graphics (Intel Iris Xe, AMD Radeon 680M) or any dedicated card
Processor
4 cores, 8 threads
Memory
8 GB
Mobile

Phones and tablets

Touch or a controller

Device
A recent Android phone or tablet (2022 or newer)
Memory
6 GB or more

Browser: Opera GX, or any Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave), kept up to date. Every one of them plays with an Xbox or PlayStation controller, and Chrome and Edge can also install the game as an app with its own icon. Smaller machines still run it: the game picks a preset to suit yours the first time it starts, and adjusts its detail during a battle to keep the frame rate up.

Platoon '44 · Normandy

The first wave
lands soon

Normandy is the first campaign of the Platoon '44 series. The landing craft are loaded, the aircraft are warming up, and the date is still under wraps.

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