Pacific Theatre

[AlbertN]

Japan seems awfully poor.

[Journier]

ORIGINAL: Cohen_slith

Japan seems awfully poor.

Poor japan.

[AlvaroSousa]

ORIGINAL: MVokt

ORIGINAL: Alvaro Sousa

Here is a close up of Japan. There is still a LOT of work to be done on making the map pretty.

Amongst the things that could be done is making Japan island 2 hexes thicker at least. Also, it should be all forested hexes.

The scale is 50m per hex.

[tigercub]

i have been spoiled with the WITP Admiral`s Edition map!

Tigercub

[MVokt]

ORIGINAL: Alvaro Sousa

ORIGINAL: MVokt

ORIGINAL: Alvaro Sousa

Here is a close up of Japan. There is still a LOT of work to be done on making the map pretty.

Amongst the things that could be done is making Japan island 2 hexes thicker at least. Also, it should be all forested hexes.

The scale is 50m per hex.

If that's so, then 2 hexes would be granted for the entire island of Honshu which is at least 100 miles wide.

Admirals Edition game of War in the Pacific, gives those 2 hexes to Japan and is exactly the same scale, 50 miles per hex:

[MVokt]

Here is a shot of referred Japan's island

[Tejszd]

ORIGINAL: Alvaro Sousa

Scale is 2x that of European so it fits. The PTO is 4x the size of the ETO in reality.

You really don't want a game as large as ETO in PTO map. It is unplayable.

Making the Pacific the same scale it will link up with the ETO. So both theaters will be created separately then linked. You just can't create one single massive scenario on the 1st shot out. I learned that lesson with Brute Force in SC. Tie for 1st in most downloaded mod I might add. It is also in SC2 game that has AoC and AoD

Axis & Allies has 2 separate games;
- Axis & Allies: Europe
- Axis & Allies: Pacific

They are playable independently but there are rules to play the games combined.

The world game might be too hard to create an AI for but would be great for 2 or 2+ players....

Looking forward to additional Warplan games/updates as the game has a great balance as it takes many things into account (depth) but does not tend overwhelm the player with managing everything at a really detailed/low level or causing a tons mouse clicks (simplicity).

[AlvaroSousa]

Ok time for more teases. The music soundtrack came back from my composer. I think it is better than WarPlan's sound track. The guy is amazing.

Remember numbers and factors haven't been adjusted yet for the game. Right now I am writing the 1941 scenario.

[PanzerMike]

Never seriously played a Pacific strategy game. Looking forward to doing so though.

[Edorf]

I just bought WarPlan and it looks like I`ll have to get WP Pacific as well. Good job.

[MagicMissile]

Fast work looks like it will be finished pretty fast which is nice 😀
/MM

[AlvaroSousa]

There are still months to go. But I am hoping for late summer release.

[Grimnirsson]

So WP Pacific will be another game not a DLC/add on for WP, am I correct?

[wesy]

Wow-what a great map. I realize that this is work in progress, but you have KitaKyushu labeled on the map. The name of the city during WW2 was Kokura. Kokura was the primary target of the second atomic bomb, but cloud cover caused them to abort and drop the bomb on Nagasaki.

[ncc1701e]

ORIGINAL: Alvaro Sousa

This is the current screen shot of the full map I am working on.

Alvaro, did you abandon Peters map scaling which better represents real distances?
The current map of the Pacific is more like a Mercator projection.

[AlvaroSousa]

ORIGINAL: ncc1701e

Alvaro, did you abandon Peters map scaling which better represents real distances?
The current map of the Pacific is more like a Mercator projection.

The Pacific is a similar issue as the European map but the Peters map is in reverse. Technically this map should be much taller unlike the European map which was shorter. Reason is that Australia is much larger than people thing it is and the Pacific much longer due to crossing the equator.

So to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome for my players I had to adjust the map in various places and go more of a Mercator map for ease of play.

So in Europe the top squeeze was good and the Med/North Africa lengthening was good.

But in the Pacific it was not. The map would be too large.

[ncc1701e]

Thanks for the explanation. I am wondering if one day you will plan a "world" game and, in this case, merging both maps will be an interesting challenge...

[AlvaroSousa]

Well that's why both maps are the same height. I am planning it. I just haven't decided how I will do it. Depends on the Pacific.

[sveint]

Any thoughts of doing a global game later? I much prefer it to a single theatre.

[AlvaroSousa]

ORIGINAL: sveint

Any thoughts of doing a global game later? I much prefer it to a single theatre.

Yes later. I just have not decided how.