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| War Plan Orange from Matrix Games released Matrix Games together with 2by3 Games and Justin Prince Designs announce the release of a new stand-alone wargame based on the highly acclaimed War in the Pacific engine. The year is 1922, World War I has come to a close but tensions still run high. The United States, fearing the worst, developed a system of plans for a potential war in the Pacific against Japan. In the real world most of these plans never saw the light of day, but in War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930, the conflicts that the planners envisioned actually occurred. Two campaigns with three variants each as well as two smaller scenarios cover two hypothetical wars in the decade of the 1920s. In the first campaign covering the years 1922-1926, battleships are still the dominant naval weapons, with the aircraft carrier being only a military toy still very much in its infancy. The airplane, which had proved a potent factor in land warfare in Europe during World War I, had yet to prove its viability to impact naval affairs. In the second campaign, covering a war during 1926-1930, the World War I era battleships are rebuilt into forms that would historically be famous in World War II. The Aircraft carrier, while no longer just an experiment, has still not found its niche in naval warfare. Larger, stronger, better armed aircraft now begin to replace the frail planes that had been veterans of World War I. War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 is now available for sale through the Matrix Games Online Store as a digital download. A boxed version will be available next week. War in the Pacific is not required to play War Plan Orange. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Game News :: home page |