Band of Heroes is a tactical board game tour de force that covers the battles of America's airborne troops during June of 1944. Band of Heroes includes a bucket full of new weapons, squads, and vehicles, including U.S. Airborne, German SS, and Fallschirmjager troops, Tiger, Sherman, Stuart, and PzIIIJ tanks, and MG42, MG34, and M1919A4 machine guns. But the scenarios are the selling point, and this batch of sixteen tells the story of the men from the 101st and 82nd Airborne Division's fighting the Germans in the Norman hedgerows during June of 1944.
Components
6 mounted maps
480+ beautiful counters, counters, representing the men and equipment from the 82nd, 101st, 17th SS Panzergrenadier, 6th Fallschirmjager, 91st Airlanding, and 352nd Infantry Divisions
16 Skill Cards, providing Leaders and Heroes with special abilities.
16 Band of Heroes Scenarios
Expansions
Lock 'n Load Tactical: Battle Pack Alpha
Lock 'n Load Tactical: Battle Pack Bravo
Lock 'n Load: A Ring of Hills
Lock 'n Load: Swift and Bold
Lock 'n Load: Not One Step Back
Lock 'n Load Tactical: Dark July - The Battle of Prokhorovka
Lock 'n Load: Noville – Bastogne's Outpost
This game is no longer available, the new, improved and expanded edition can be found in Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of Normandy
- Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes