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As the follow-up to the popular "Proud & Few" Squad Battles game, Pacific War continues in the Pacific theater but adds all the changes in the Squad Battles system since "Proud & Few" was released, to include the extremely popular Fast AI Processing.


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SB:Pacific War contains 60 scenarios covering the entire Pacific Theater in World War II involving a host of new nationalities. Forces from the Chinese (both Nationalist and Communist), Dutch, Soviet, Australian, British, and US Armies are pitted against the Japanese.


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Pacific War Features:

60 stand alone scenarios.
A wide sampling of actions from this conflict.
Campaigns covering Australians on the Kokoda Track, Americans in Burma, and Japanese in Thailand and Malaya.
Many unique maps providing ample ground for scenario designers to create their own actions.

The game also has the standard scenario, OOB, parameter, database & sub-map editors included with the game. Play modes include A/I, Hot Seat, PBEM, LAN & Internet play.


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Credits

Project Coordinator: Bill Wilder
Scenario Testing Coordinator: Frank Harmon
Scenario Designers: Frank Harmon, Neil Stalker, Louie Marsh, Lee Hook, and Bill Wilder
Scenario Maps: Dave Blackburn and Bill Wilder
Orders of Battle: Wyatt Kappely, Neil Stalker, John Tiller, and Bill Wilder
Campaign Maps: Mike Avanzini
Playtesters: Federico Doveri, Massimo Rocca, Louie Marsh, Neil Stalker, and Frank Harmon, Lee Hook, Wyatt Kappely, and Bill Wilder

System Requirements

Windows XP, Vista, or 7
Processor: 1 GHz
Disk Space: 1 GB
Memory: 1 GB

Planning Maps (click for full-sized images)

Burma/India


Admin Box: 1.86 mb gif	Kohima Ridge: 4.79 mb gif	Nunshigum India: 4.43 mb gif


Sittang Bridge: 5.23 mb gif	White City: 1.21 mb gif	Myitkyina: 653 kb gif

Central Pacific


Eniwetok Island: 1.39 mb gif	Kwajalein Island: 2.76 mb gif	Makin Island: 4.04 mb gif


Midway Island: 2.84 mb gif	Roi Namur Island: 2.20 mb gif

Manchuria


Azuma Recce: 5.56 mb gif	Khasan Lake: 7.20 mb gif	Moko Heights: 5.54 mb gif


Nomohan: 1.45 mb gif

Marianas


Guam - Barrigada: 1.43 mb gif	Guam North: 18.6 mb gif	Saipan -Death Valley: 4.39 mb gif


Saipan - Hari Kari Gulch: 1.68 mb gif	Saipan South: 35.4 mb gif

New Guinea


Brigade Hill: 3.92 mb gif	Buna: 3.79 mb gif	Gona: 4.14 mb gif


Ioribaiwa: 6.45 mb gif	Kokoda: 5.10 mb gif	Milne Bay: 2.28 mb gif


Torokina Point: 6.30 mb gif	Wairopi: 12.9 mb gif

Okinawa


Item Packet: 2.31 mb gif	Pinnacle: 885 kb gif	Kakazu Ridge: 876 kb gif


Skyline Ridge: 3.27 mb gif	Sugarloaf: 2.13 mb gif	Yae Take: 11.5 mb gif

Philippines


Intramuros: 1.10 mb gif	Olympic Stadium Manila: 1.15 mb gif	Ormoc - Leyte: 1.60 mb gif


Corregidor: 8.95 mb gif

SW Pacific


Admiralty Islands: 1.67 mb gif	Arawe - New Britain: 3.35 mb gif	Guadalcanal East: 13.2 mb gif


Guadalcanal West: 13.8 mb gif

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Reading List

	Baldwin, Hanson W; Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War 2 (Men at War); Konecky & Konecky Military Books, 2000
	Blair, Clay; MACARTHUR; Doubleday, 1977
	Boyle, David; World War II: A Photographic History; MetroBooks, 2000
	Brune, Peter; A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua; Allen & Unwin, 2005
	Brune, Peter; Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942; Allen & Unwin, 2005
	Manchester, William; American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964; Back Bay Books, 2008
	Astor, Gerald; Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them; Dell, 2002
	Astor, Gerald; Operation Iceberg : The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II; Dell, 1996
	Levine, Steven; China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945; Sharpe, 1993
	MacHorton, Ian; The Hundred Days of Lt. MacHorton; Bantam, 1979
	McLynn, Frank; The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45 (Yale Library of Military History); Yale University Press, 2011 (reprint)
	Drea, Edward; Nomonhan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939; University Press of the Pacific, 2005
	Nedialkov, Demitar; In the Skies of Nomonhan: Japan Versus Russia May-september 1939; Crecy Publishing, 2011
	Slim, Field Marshall Viscount William; Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945; Cooper Square Press, 2000
	Thompson, Julian; Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict; Ebury Press, 2010
	Tamayama, Kazao, & Nunneley, John; Tales by Japanese Soldiers; Cassell, 2001
	Harries, Meirion; Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army; Random House, 1994
	Toland, John; The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945; Modern Library, 2003
	Thompson, Peter; Battle for Singapore; Portrait, 2006
	Bayley, Chris; Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire & the War with Japan; Penguin, 2005
	Campbell, James; The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific; Broadway, 2008