The Greatest Day: Utah Beach

About this board game

The Greatest Day: Utah Beach is a 2024 board game for 2–12 players with a listed play time of 2,000 minutes. It is the second of three volumes in the Grand Tactical Series covering the Battle for Normandy in June 1944.

This volume presents a broad selection of scenarios set around the Utah Beach landings and the fighting that followed. Its scope reaches from focused situations to an expansive campaign spanning the entire Cotentin Peninsula.

Players can explore several defining operations of the Normandy campaign, including:

• The beach landings at Utah Beach
• Airborne troops seizing Carentan
• Operations to cut the Cotentin Peninsula

The scenario range is designed to offer different scales of engagement. Small scenarios fit on an 8.5×11-inch format, while full campaign games stretch across the peninsula and cover a much larger operational picture.

With its combination of varied scenarios and sweeping campaign scope, The Greatest Day: Utah Beach presents a substantial tabletop treatment of a pivotal part of the Battle for Normandy. It is a volume focused on the movement from the initial landings toward the wider struggle for control of the Cotentin Peninsula.