Shrapnel sale

[Wolfe1759]

All jokes about a Shrapnel sale aside...well, no, we should still joke about that, War Plan Pacific is fun.

WPP is a pretty good game actually.  If you want to play the entire Pacific campaign in a few short hours, this will let you do it.  It's probably best described as "Avalon Hill 'Victory in the Pacific' for the PC".  Even said, $34 might be more than I'd pay for it again today but there's no drm and I split the costs with my brother years ago so I've gotten my $15-$18 worth out of it.

If I didn't already own it, I'd still consider it for $34.00.  I always hoped they'd do the Atlantic so we could have Avalon Hill's 'War at Sea' too.  Maybe let the Japanese lend the Germans some ships even or play both fronts together.   Nice to put the sound track to Tora, Tora, Tora on while playing.

$34 isn't bad.  If you figure that you play it 10 times to completion over a number of years, then you're spending $3.40 each time that you do play it which is very fair.  Some will play it much more than that (and some much less).

Value for money -  WPP vs WITP:AE from my personal experience:

In terms of actual play time and (on this one it wins hands down) completed PTO campaigns - WPP

In terms of looking at it, installing map mods, looking at it, flicking through the manual, looking at it, starting the first turn of a campaign / scenario, looking at it, having a physical copy of it next to War in the East and War in the West, looking at it again and then realising I still don't know where to start - WITP:AE

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