![]() ![]() Other Game Features detailed combat analysis, flank attacks, strategic movement, indirect fire, mounting and dismounting from vehicles, multi-level hills and minesweepers.Four troop classes Raw, Average, Veteran and Elite.High Definition grassland and beach terrains.Japanese ‘Nikuhaku’ anti-tank suicide units.Japanese bunkers and other fortifications.Specialist units such as LV’Ts (Landing Craft Tank), LVCP’s (Landing Craft), Engineers and the ubiquitous LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked).Play as the Soviet Union versus the Japanese in a 3 mission ‘Red Bear’ campaign.Play as the British Commonwealth versus the Japanese in a 5 mission ‘Commonwealth’ campaign.Play as the Japanese versus the British Commonwealth in a 5 mission ‘Empire’ campaign. Pacific War, major theatre of World War II that covered a large portion of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, with significant engagements occurring as far south as northern Australia and as far north as the Aleutian Islands.Play as the Americans versus the Japanese in the 3 Mission ‘Eclipse’ Campaign.Play as the Japanese versus the French, then Chinese, the Americans in the 3 Mission ‘Rising Sun’ Campaign.Play as the Chinese versus the Japanese in the ‘Bonus’ Campaign (1 Mission).Play as the Japanese in the 8 Mission ‘First Strike’ tutorial campaign, concluding with a full-scale mission.15 Missions to play through, including 2 large-scale beach invasions.High Definition World War II era graphics. ![]() The game even includes a what-if scenario for Operation Olympic, the invasion of the Japanese homelands. The game has a wide range of features from the tank battles of Northern Manchuria to the battlefields of Burma and the landings on the Pacific Islands. Fight battles between Japan, France, China, Russia, British Commonwealth and The United States of America. Tank Battle: Pacific attempts to create many of these battles with a mixture of historical battles and themed scenarios that capture the experience of being a tank commander in the Pacific Theatre in World War Two. Even the Island War battles saw some engagements with over 30 Japanese tanks in a single mass assault. Finally the titanic struggle between the Japanese and United States of American resulted in dozens of tank engagements. In Burma and India, British Commonwealth forces regularly engaged in battle using equipment that would have been considered obsolete on the West Front. The Japanese fought the Russians in 19, the Soviets with the one of the world’s greatest generals, Zhukov, in command! In 1941 the French in Vietnam briefly fought the Japanese with World War One era tanks. Starting in China in the 1930’s the Chinese engaged the Japanese using Russian T26’s and German Panzer I’s. They did happen, and they happened often, but they never matched the scale of the Western Theatre. And the final irony is that it was all moot because within days, two atomic bombs brought to an end a war that should never have been fought.Ask most historical strategy gamers about World War Two and not many would have thought there were any tank battles in the Pacific Theatre of World War Two. The Marines and the Army suffered more than 100,000 casualties. Tankers ran into larger guns on Okinawa, including larger anti-tank guns and covered artillery. It was the only major battle in which the Marines lost more men than the Japanese. Any open ground was a checkerboard of buried 500-pound bombs fixed to anti-tank mines. On Iwo Jima the main danger was from mines. The Marines were caught by surprise but quickly rallied and destroyed thirty of the inferior enemy tanks. A major engagement took place on Saipan when 37 Japanese tanks staged what one talking head calls a "banzai charge" at night. ![]() And persistent fire from a light machine gun could penetrate a Japanese tank. cannon as opposed to the Sherman's 75 mm. The typical Japanese tank was designed for use against infantry in China, not for tank-to-tank encounters. The first such encounter was on Tarawa, where the Japanese used tanks mainly as artillery. But a surprising amount of engagement involving tanks took place in the course of the Marine's island hopping across the Pacific. We think of tans rushing around on flat ground, not creeping through jungles. Tank battles? That would be the level steppes of Russia, like Kursk, or even the Ardennes forest, like Bastogne. It's an especially interesting episode because one doesn't ordinarily think of tank battles in the Pacific theater. ![]()
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