Campaign?

[Cascalonginus]

Is there a campaign somewhere? Or simply the various scenarios?

[Grotius]

Scenarios 17 and 19 are the "campaigns." I think Scenario 17 roughly models the historical OOB, except that Midway isn't fought, so the ships sunk there do appear in Scen 17. Scenario 19 gives the Japanese more ground and air forces (I think) than were available historically. Both games run from spring of 1942 to the end of 1943, which is plenty plenty long!

[Bulldog61]

Scenario 14 is also a campaign. It starts just before Guadalcanal is invaded and runs to the end of 43.

Mike

[RayM]

Scenario #16 as well.

[BigJoe417]

I had the same question. The box says full campaign included and you start it up and see just scenarios.
When I think of a full campaign I think of playing all of the smaller scenarios in historical order while at the same time maintaining continuity with the results of one to the other. Perhaps as you do worse the enemy gets more supplies and arms or if you do better you get more planes, ships etc... Anyways, that is what I thought it would be when I bought it. Now I'm playing the "campaign" , scen 19, and after sinking 4 enemy carriers I havn't seen any real Japanese resistance to speak of and I'm just involved with supply logistics and taking one jap base after another. I'm wondering if somewhere sometime the enemy will return and make the game interesting again.

[Erik Rutins]

BigJoe,

The campaign works as you described for any of the long scenarios, except that we don't break you off to dump you to the next scenario. You play through the build up/reorganization times in between the battles. If you hit the AI hard, their probability of receiving reinforcements goes up, etc. However, the AI often likes to build up a larger force before conducting operations, so there are often lulls after decisive battles that cost it a lot of ships/planes/men.

If you've sunk 4 IJN carriers in #19, you're just getting started.

Regards,

- Erik

[BigJoe417]

Hi Erik,

Thanks!

Where is Matrix Games located?

[OG_Gleep]

4!! I have a hard time sinking their cruisers....the most I have done is really piss off a couple of BB captains. One took 11 bomb hits and 2 torpedos and it didn't even break off the task force.


Even their smaller ships seem like Alley Cats....99 lives. My heavy cruiser gets hit with 2 torpedos and sinks, while my subs regularly peg the Jap ships.