Planned Release Date: Q2 2024

About This Game

A Day of Infamy

Our flagship campaign begins with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th December 1941 and the rapid expansion of Japan’s Empire into South East Asia and the Pacific. Will victory be won in India, Australia, Hawaii, or battling for islands throughout the Pacific Ocean? This is your chance to re-fight the 20th century’s greatest conflict in the Pacific!

Strategic Command - WWII: War in the Pacific and its flagship 1941 Day of Infamy campaign comes with an impressive 36,000 hex map, providing you with the opportunity to wage war from India and Burma in the west, via the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, the Philippines, Guadalcanal, the Kokoda Trail, Iwo Jima, Tarawa and Midway to the west coast of North America, at an approximately 80km/50mi scale.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

While Japanese Carriers are launching their first strikes on US Battleships at Pearl Harbor, amphibious operations are underway elsewhere, as Allied forces throughout the Pacific and South East Asia come under attack. The fighting will stretch from Hong Kong to Burma, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and beyond, possibly even into Australia, India or New Zealand.

Meanwhile, a war no less significant continues on the mainland, as Chinese and Japanese forces are locked in battle for control of China. This war has been waging for years and shows no signs of abating, as Japan struggles to drive further inland. Now that its war is expanding and they are facing more enemies with greater economic potential and might, Japan must act quickly to seize as many resources as it can, and to weaken the Allied fleets and armies that oppose it.

Command the forces of 7 Major powers: Japan, Australia, China, Communist China, the USA, UK and USSR, together with the allied forces that fought on both sides, and play with a choice of 3-D unit graphics or NATO counters.

Battles will be fought across the breadth and depth of the map, on land and at sea, over islands like Okinawa, Tarawa, Guam and Saipan, as well as on the land masses where forces from Australia, New Zealand, the Dutch East Indies, India, China, the UK, USA and USSR will battle with the might of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.

Japanese allies will feature too, starting with the defection of Thailand, the growth of the Indian National Army, the Burma Independence Army, and not forgetting Japan’s Mongolian and Chinese and allies, based in Mengjiang and Nanjing respectively.

FEATURES

• 6 campaigns re-fighting WWII in the Pacific:
  
  
  • 1941 Day of Infamy – a grand campaign starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor, playing on a top-down hex based map spanning from India in the west to North America in the east. Maximising competitiveness and re-playability, this campaign comes with a wide variety of Victory Conditions, some of which are time based, so the pressure will be on to obtain the best victory possible!
  
  
• Plus 5 quick to play mini-campaigns:
  
  
  • 1939 Khalkhin Gol – Nomonhan – Soviet and Japanese forces clash for a second time in the east. Will the Red Army succeed in hammering the Japanese army, or can the latter do better then historically?
    
    
  • ]1942-43 Solomons Campaign – the US begins its campaign to fight back against Japan! US Marines under the command of Vandegrift have landed on Guadalcanal, and a major battle is about to begin. Will it end in the first Allied land victory since the Pacific war began, or will Japan’s outer defensive perimeter hold, upsetting Allied plans to gain the strategic initiative?
    
    
  • 1944 The Marianas Campaign – the US launches Operation Forager with amphibious landings on Saipan, Tinian and Guam, with the aim of securing these locations prior to the liberation of the Philippines. Japanese resistance is expected to be tough...
    
    
  • 1945 Iwo Jima – US forces have been ordered to capture this island, only 750 miles from Japan. The Japanese defenders have been subjected to several days bombardment by the US navy, however they are well dug in and US Marines will be needed to defeat them. Can Japan’s defenses be swiftly dealt with, or will a stubborn resistance rob the Americans of a quick victory?
    
    
  • 1945 August Storm – The Soviet Union invades Manchuria in the final battle of the Second World War. After years of neglect, the once-mighty Kwantung Army faces overwhelming odds in their efforts to defend some of Japan’s oldest conquests. But with Japan’s surrender imminent, the Red Army will be racing against time to secure influence and glory in the Far East!
  
  
• PBEM++ and Hotseat Multiplayer
  
• Play in Windowed Mode or Full Screen
  
• Play in English, French, Spanish or German
  
• A choice of 3-D unit graphics or NATO counters
  
• The game comes with a very easy to use Editor to make your own scenarios