Matrix Games

Overview ( More Info )

This new stand alone release based on the legendary War in the Pacific from 2 by 3 Games adds significant improvements and changes to enhance game play, improve realism, and increase historical accuracy. With dozens of new features, new art, and engine improvements, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition brings you the most realistic and immersive WWII Pacific Theater wargame ever!

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Features

An all new 40 nautical mile per hex map covering the entire Pacific theater and off-map bases
Six new scenarios, including a new grand campaign with meticulously researched orders of battle
Improved naval operations, including waypoints, mid-ocean intercepts, new ship classes and devises and a greatly improved ship upgrade system, engine vs. system damage, new ship art and realistic new port limits for ships, cargo and repairs
Improved air operations, including more realistic CAP, more detailed and realistic dogfighting, an improved pilot skill and replacement system, persistent plane damage and more realistic plane maintenance, improved fog of war, new aircraft art and over 500 airplane types
Improved land operations, including transportation networks defined by hex-side, new operations modes for land units, dynamic zone of control, tactical movement, improved fog of war and overstacking rules for atolls and small islands.
Improved economy and industry to reflect more realistic operations as well as more historical balance
The most historical and detailed order of battle for the Pacific War ever put into a wargame!
A new scenario editor, built from the ground up to make scenario and mod-making easier, with expanded slot limits, text search and upgradable unit TO&Es
Printed 330 page FULL COLOR manual (boxed copy only)

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Review on Cyberstratege
7/10 - [Translated from French] WitP-AE is a real improvement over WitP and it probably will satisfy lovers of the original with its realism, tactical finesse, and additional immersion.

Review on Gamer's Hall
9/10 - [Translated from German] For lovers of the Pacific war, Admiral’s Edition is already a compulsory purchase, but also fans of detailed strategic simulations will find the game pleasurable as well… I have no doubt that we are dealing with a contender for the strategy title of the year.

Review on PC4WAR
9.5/10 - [Translated from French] I very much appreciated the increase in realism without the loss of playability.

Product Data

Complexity: Advanced - Grognard
Field of Play: Strategic/Operational
Historical Period: World War II (1941-1946)
Theater: Pacific
Unit Scale: Regiments, Squadrons, Task Forces with Individual Squads, Ships & Planes
Turn Play: Selectable 1- 3 day turns
Players: 1 or 2 Players
AI: Either Side
TCP/IP: No
PBEM: Yes
Game Editor: Yes
Manual: Printed FULL COLOR Manual (Physical) and PDF E-Book (Download & Physical), 330 Pages
Display Resolution: 1024 x 768, Full Screen or Windowed