Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Lead covert agents through branching missions, resistance contacts, skill tests, and tactical encounters in occupied France.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Narrative Choices
Choose between story options that lead to different passages and consequences.
Scenario Campaign
Play linked or standalone scenarios with their own setup, objectives, and consequences.
Minimap Resolution
Resolve broader movement or conflict on a smaller linked representation of the map.
Stat Check Resolution
Compare a statistic with a target or random result to determine success.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
War Story: Occupied France is a cooperative narrative campaign about a British special-operations team working with the French Resistance. Three replayable missions unfold through dedicated books, envelopes, cards, maps, and a persistent team sheet. Each operation gives the group a strict time budget and a web of locations where agents can gather intelligence, recruit help, find equipment, and pursue leads. Team composition matters because every operative brings a different mix of skills; tests can be mitigated by equipment and pooled resources, but failure may wound or kill an agent and redirect the story. Key moments shift onto compact encounter maps where position, enemy sight lines, and equipment turn the narrative choices into tactical problems. The missions can stand alone, though playing them in order preserves consequences and gives the strongest arc. Because clues, routes, and outcomes branch, a return visit can expose scenes and solutions missed the first time without erasing the tension of the original operation.