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Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930
World War II Arrives Early in the Pacific! War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 transports wargamers to an entirely different timeline, where the conflict that naval planners feared would happen during the 1920s actually did. While this is a hypothetical conflict, the history and the forces involved have been researched with exacting detail to bring this "what if" to life as only the War in the Pacific engine can. The 1920s, the era of the boom and the depression, the radio, gangsters, prohibition and womens suffrage. World War I was over, but tensions in the Pac
Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930
World War II Arrives Early in the Pacific! War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 transports wargamers to an entirely different timeline, where the conflict that naval planners feared would happen during the 1920s actually did. While this is a hypothetical conflict, the history and the forces involved have been researched with exacting detail to bring this "what if" to life as only the War in the Pacific engine can. The 1920s, the era of the boom and the depression, the radio, gangsters, prohibition and womens suffrage. World War I was over, but tensions in the Pacific were growing. War Plan Orange assumes that the historical Washington Naval Treaty was rejected by the Japanese. The decisive arm of the Navy remains the surface fleet of Battleships and Battlecruisers, with Aircraft Carriers seen as expensive experiments. This war in the Pacific will not be decided by airpower, but by massive gun and torpedo battles on the seas and invasions on the shores. In the first campaign covering the years 1922-1926, battleships are still the dominant naval weapons, with the aircraft carrier being only a military toy still very much in its infancy. The airplane, which had proved a potent factor in land warfare in Europe during World War I, had yet to prove its viability to impact naval affairs.
In the second campaign, covering a war during 1926-1930, the World War I era battleships are rebuilt into forms that would historically be famous in World War II. The Aircraft carrier, while no longer just an experiment, has still not found its niche in naval warfare. Larger, stronger, better armed aircraft now begin to replace the frail planes that had been veterans of World War I.
War Plan Orange, while using the War in the Pacific engine developed by 2by3 Games, is in itself an entirely different game.
Note: The manual is published as a very well organized and printable PDF file on CD.
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Manufacturer: Matrix Games
EAN: 0183881000397 UPC: 183881000397
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