War Plan Pacific

On a fateful December day in 1941 the sound of sirens shrieked across the vastness of the Pacific as the military forces of Imperial Japan struck against an unprepared foe. Within hours the main battle line of the United States Navy lay in Pearl Harbor with broken backs and shredded hulls, the sea awash with blood and oil, while all across the Pacific American, British, and Dutch forces suffered defeat.

While the toll was terrible at Pearl Harbor it could have been much worse. No carrier had been in port, the submarine force had barely been touched, and most importantly the massive fuel tank storage facilities went unscathed. Instead of slaying the giant the Japanese only awoke it.

By mid-1942 Japan's dream of uniting the Pacific under the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere began to fade with the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy at Midway. From that point forward the struggle between the Allies, led by the United States, and Japan became one of attrition. Slowly Japanese territorial gains began to shrink, as the Allies began to close an ever-shrinking ring around Japan through a campaign of island hopping in the Pacific and bitter jungle warfare on the mainland of Asia. In 1945 the ring had closed and the Allies were faced with the prospect of a long bloody invasion of the home islands of the Empire of Japan unless they could force surrender. Ushering in a new age of warfare the United States did force that surrender, thanks to the use of two atomic weapons that saved countless lives of Allied servicemen, ending once and for all Japan's Imperial ambitions.

In KE Studios' War Plan Pacific players take on the role of the supreme commanders of either the Japanese or Allied forces fighting for dominance of the Pacific during the Second World War. Commanding the historical air, naval, and (abstractly) ground forces that fought in the epic clash will history repeat itself or will the war end with the Americans, exhausted from years of bloody battle, negotiating a peace treaty with Japan?

War Plan Pacific takes a bold approach to grand strategic wargaming. Balancing historical reality and gaming playability, War Plan Pacific makes commanding entire fleets and air groups highly intuitive, allowing gamers to easily concentrate on strategy rather than being bogged down in minutiae as would be expected in a game featuring such a massive scope of conflict. Not only that but War Plan Pacific was designed from the start to be playable in a single session! That's right, a Pacific War title that doesn't take as long as the real war to complete.

With multiple victory conditions, extensive air and naval orders of battles, exciting battles with just the right amount of chrome to make them shine, the ability to face off against either the challenging AI or another live opponent, War Plan Pacific is a rewarding game that offers endless replayability. And with a session length measured in hours--not days, weeks, or months--this is one strategic war game that you have no excuse not to play even in today's hectic world.

Will surrender come on the deck of the Missouri or the Yamato? Find out when you make your own destiny with War Plan Pacific!

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