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ORIGINAL: micheljq

Hello,

Has anyone tried the new game published by Matrix - World War II : Time of Wrath?

I would be curious to have some comments if so.

ORIGINAL: MajorDude

To answer your question, I have lately been toying with the idea of checking out either:

War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/351 ... 's.Edition

or

Carriers at War

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/337 ... ers.at.War

which was a fun game when I played it in its previous version.


I am also looking forward to:

Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/320 ... .the.Reich

when it comes out because I really enjoyed the original 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/12o ... abs;images

even if it was a long game - lol. [8D]

ORIGINAL: andyinkuwait

Uncommon Valor is a smaller version of War in the Pacific and Admirals Edition requires War in the Pacific (not a stand alone). AE is due to be released in a few days but you need WitP to be installed to play it because they share files. UV is stand alone. They all have the same mechanics. VERY detailed planning is needed especially with logistics. Individual combat ships, tankers, LCU's, carriers,...everything is modelled to the nth degree. Typical turn may take an hour to plan out properly and, if you dont track very carefully what is happening,..the AI will hand you your ass very quickly. I love it but its not for everyone...

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Hi everyone,

Please forget everything I said before about Admiral's Edition pricing. No, seriously.

We had a long internal discussion after the initial wave of customer feedback. We appreciate our customers and strive to make you all happy. When we realized our original pricing plans were not actually achieving that goal, we decided to revisit the plans we had made to see what we could do. A primary concern that was expressed was that we should make Admiral's Edition more easily available to customers who have not played War in the Pacific and to put aside our concerns that without previous experience in WITP, Admiral's Edition might be too much to jump into.

For us, another serious concern was that if Admiral's Edition were to be made stand-alone, its price would have to be much higher. We decided to see what we could do to lower that stand alone price point while still giving existing WITP owners a discount for the same price point we had originally decided on.

The net result is the following, which we hope will be well received by both existing WITP owners and prospective customers who don't have WITP but are interested in owning the Admiral's Edition.

War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition will now be a stand-alone release. It will NOT require War in the Pacific to install or to play. We still recommend that customers interested in Admiral's Edition give WITP a try first. The larger map scale, fewer units and larger number of shorter or smaller scenarios we feel are ideal to mastering the system before you proceed to Admiral's Edition. But if you want to jump right on in to AE, we won't stop you. Go right ahead. [8D]

War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition will have a stand-alone price of $79.99 Download / $89.99 Physical.

Starting with the Admiral's Edition release, we will be running a 90 Day "Victory at Sea" sale. This sale will reduce the price of Uncommon Valor and War Plan Orange by $10 and War in the Pacific will be reduced by $20. It will run for three months after the Admiral's Edition release. The goal of this sale is to make these other games in the WITP "series" less expensive for those who might want to test the waters with WITP or complete their collection.

Also, for three months starting with the Admiral's Edition release, we will be offering a discount to existing owners of War in the Pacific. This discount will allow you to purchase the Admiral's Edition for $20 less than its normal stand-alone price. That means that it will be $59.99 Download / $69.99 Physical for WITP owners for three months after the Admiral's Edition release. This is the same price point we discussed earlier. We strongly encourage ALL WITP owners to upgrade during this three month period, after which Admiral's Edition will only be available at the stand-alone price of $79.99 Download / $89.99 Physical.

Thanks again for your support and feedback. War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition is currently on schedule for a release before the end of July. I expect to be able to announce the actual release date in the next couple of days.

Regards,

- Erik

ORIGINAL: andyinkuwait

Uncommon Valor is a smaller version of War in the Pacific and Admirals Edition requires War in the Pacific (not a stand alone). AE is due to be released in a few days but you need WitP to be installed to play it because they share files. UV is stand alone. They all have the same mechanics. VERY detailed planning is needed especially with logistics. Individual combat ships, tankers, LCU's, carriers,...everything is modelled to the nth degree. Typical turn may take an hour to plan out properly and, if you dont track very carefully what is happening,..the AI will hand you your ass very quickly. I love it but its not for everyone...

ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

Its a good fun 'beer and pretzels' sort of WWII game.   I am indeed playing it in anticipation of MWIF.  Its a turn based, hex game with numbers on counters that have NATO symbols.  Although I am eagerly awaiting a counter mod that will make them look more authentic to me.  For some reason the designers decided to put the size indicator (XX XXX) BELOW the type box instead of above, that just irks my sense of right/wrong

If you have the money to spare, and need some fun wargaming its a good buy.

Note

European Theatre only, the classical Azores to the Urals, North Africa to Finland.

Naval and Air is very abstracted

ORIGINAL: ItBurns
to be more fun and a better challenge. The air units are differentiated into fighter, tac, strategic the AI is better and I absolutely LOVED the convoy system (the convoys are valued as production points, each loss destroys one and the Brits get the full value to spend immediatly upon their arrival in Britain). It really hurts the German when 30 point convoys arrive unmolested.

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: ItBurns
to be more fun and a better challenge. The air units are differentiated into fighter, tac, strategic the AI is better and I absolutely LOVED the convoy system (the convoys are valued as production points, each loss destroys one and the Brits get the full value to spend immediatly upon their arrival in Britain). It really hurts the German when 30 point convoys arrive unmolested.

And also when 100+ points convoy arrives in Murmansk unmolested... [:D] But to put things in perspective, in that game an armoured corps costs 80 points.

. AE is due to be released in a few days but you need WitP to be installed to play it because they share files.

The only alternative to MWiF is WiF FE under Vassal