Order of Battle: Pacific has now an official release date

[Gusington]

'Wing's fix worked for me too  8) This game gets better as I progress, btw.

[mikeck]

Is this game pretty complex or is it like Panzer general?

[Gusington]

Not complex at all, it's like PG.

[jomni]

Not complex at all, it's like PG.

Actually a step above PG

[Tuna]

Not complex at all, it's like PG.

Actually a step above PG

How so Jomni?

[jomni]

Logistics, fatigue

[Gusington]

True. It's well put together too, despite that one error I had with the missing images.

[Sir Slash]

Loin-Moistening?

[BanzaiCat]

The game gives you side mission objectives that can affect the outcome of your game down the road.

Also, if you perform well in one instance, it will have lasting effects down that same road. For example, as the Japanese I sank every U.S. battleship in the first Pearl Harbor scenario, so the game told me the U.S. would have trouble reacting for many months to come. On the other side of the same coin, in my first ever campaign game I also played the Japanese and didn't know what I was doing, and suffered a lot of aircraft losses; this had an effect on my aircrew's performance in later battles as my pilots would be of worse quality.

[Gusington]

^Yep. Similarly you get to carry 'core troops' over between scenarios. They gain experience and evolve into veteran troops. There are also special abilities, like banzai charges. Lots of cool little details.

[jomni]

And dead people, wrecks, craters are left in the battlefield.

[GibbyG]

Maybe this is standard in this type of game, but what disappointed me is that in my Allied campaign I won the first few scenarios, but I screwed up Coral Sea and lost and the campaign ended.  I figured that if I lost a scenario the war would continue but just be harder. 

[Gusington]

I thought the same...it is a little disappointing.

[FlickJax]

I believe this is something they need to fix in these games; do or die is just so pah!!!

[JasonPratt]

Sometimes PG games have branching paths for losses on the campaigns. But usually not many.

Most Panzer General games, even Panzer Corps, have more aspects to the game than PG did. (And in the case of Unity of Command, sometimes less is more.) Heck, PG2 and 3 had more gameplay details!

From what I've heard, the Groggiest game that's still identifiably Panzer General is Matrix's remake/update of an Operation Barbarossa game, Germany At War: Barbarossa 1941. Which has a demo, btw.

Jim Cobb's review here on the mythical front page.