En bref. Presque un an après sa sortie, cette suite du wargame à l’échelle opérationnelle WarPlan arrivé lui à l’automne 2020 est désormais disponible sur la plateforme de Valve. A part un petit patch (voir changelog ci-après) il y a quelques semaines, rien de très nouveau à signaler, cette suite se consacrant toujours à simuler dans son ensemble et en détails le vaste théâtre asiatique de fin 1941 à 1945. Sauf qu’il semble que les développeurs avancent bien sur WarPlan 2. Futur titre qui avait déjà été brièvement évoqué, qui disposera d’un nouveau moteur de jeu et dont on verra ce qu’il en est d’ici deux à quatre ans.
Pour plus d’informations sur WarPlan Pacific, voyez cette fiche sur Steam ou cette page chez l’éditeur. Ainsi que ce précédent interview et notre article WarPlan Pacific : la guerre, les pieds dans l’eau !
Concernant WarPlan, voyez cette page chez l’éditeur, celle-ci chez Kraken studios. Ou encore celle-ci sur Steam. Ainsi que notre test et cet AAR.
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WarPlan Pacific is out now on Steam
WarPlan Pacific uses the same game system as the original WarPlan with additional features and improvements. The game covers all the nations at war in the Pacific theatre from December 1941 to 1945.
The game’s scale is massive, covering 62 different potential countries, in a map large 50 miles / 80km per hex using a modified Mercator map scaling to allow a flowing game that doesn’t overload the player. The land scale is 15k – 60k men, air scale is 300-400 aircraft and naval scale is 1 capital ship + support ships.
WarPlan Pacific will be available on Steam on March 17th.
WarPlan Pacific is an operational level wargame that covers all the nations at war in the Pacific theatre from December 1941 to 1945 on a massive game scale, covering 62 different potential countries, in a map large 50 miles / 80km per hex using a modified Mercator map scaling to allow a flowing game that doesn’t overload the player. The land scale is 15k – 60k men, air scale is 300-400 aircraft and naval scale is 1 capital ship + support ships.
The map is Hex based, with 15 different types of terrains subdivided into sizes with each different features including motorized and non-motorized movement, airfield capacity, and defensive bonuses; 12 different resource types with new city images, 5 different strategic resources.
Realism is enhanced by the presence of Fog of War, with detection levels that determine information of units. Moreover, 5 different weather conditions make the whole gameplay more challenging. With the Pacific theatre communications intelligence is introduced for more enhanced naval action.
Patch
v1.00.06.2 – 01st March 2022
• Fixed upgrade only not working
• Fixed clear entrenchment level on shatter
• Fixed beachead supply keeping higher value of supply
• Fixed Ruyjo CVL name should be CV since it is a 50 plane capacity carrier
