Train - Escape to Normandy
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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In the months before France is liberated by the Allies in World War 2, Germany tries to take Paris' collection of classic paintings. As Resistance member Pierre LeFeu, helped by wounded former engineer Le Duc, must prevent this happening, but taking the paintings by train to Normandy and Allied control.

Once in control of the train, you must set the throttle level, ensure that there is enough coal in the furnace, control the speed, and ensure that steam is released when necessary. Use the provided map, and the communications network once released, to plan the strategic side of your mission. Each station has coal and water supplies which may be needed to keep the train running.

You must raid railway stations in order to get track switches into the right position. Both this and the initial capture of the train involve aiming at the enemy, current indicated point, and ducking before their bullets can hit you. Taking control of bridges is similar - you control a cannon and must take aim.

Alternate Titles
"The Train: Nur Sie können ihn stoppen" -- German title

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Description from the packaging:

The Train: A daring and deadly escape behind enemy lines!
August, 1944. The German stranglehold on Europe is slipping. The liberation of occupied France looms in the horizon. In an effort to escape the advancing Allied forces, the Germans begin a desperate evacuation of men, machinery and spoils of the war.

On the outskirts of Metz, a heavily armed train of the Third Reich sits sweltering in the dead of night. On board lies a secret cargo. Renoirs, Monets, Picassos- the entire plundered art collection of France- are to be smuggled to Berlin under a cover of darkness. Once in Hitler's clutches, these priceless masterpieces could be lost to mankind forever.
Only you can stop it!

In the train, you are a leader in the French resistance. Your mission: capture the armored "war train" and successfully commandeer it through enemy lines for a rendezvous with the Allies at Riviere, Normandy.

With the help of brave corps of resistance fighters, you'll actually engineer a World War II locomotive and engage in some of the most realistic and hostile combat situations ever created for the personal computer. Traps, ambushes and sabotage may await you at any station, any bridge or any crossing. Enemy planes will strafe you in heated pursuit. Gunboats can blast you right off the rails.
The Train. Shovel coal or shovel your own grave.

You and your accomplice must hijack the enemy war train. Wait! The Germans have spotted him! Hold them off with a spray of machine gun fire.
You control an armed World War II locomotive. Open the furnace, shovel coal, adjust the throttle. Blow the whistle to signal the Resistance fighters down the line.

Capture the station. Replenish your coal and water supplies. Intercept the enemy intelligence reports, then telegraph the Resistance forces with new orders.
To the Luftwaffe, an ordinary train is a sitting duck. But yours is anything but ordinary! Riddle the enemy fighter with rounds from your 50mm anti-aircraft gun.
