
Capture the experience of being a tank commander in the Pacific Theatre in World War Two. Fight battles between Japan, France, China, Russia, British Commonwealth and The United States of America. The game has a wide range of features from the tank battles of Northern Manchuria to the battlefields of Burma and the landings on the Pacific...
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A four years old game with 8 reviews (according to Steam)... Can't be good, right? Or maybe a hidden gem? [h2]Firing up the hexbased tactics [/h2] The tutorial shows well how this game is played. Main difference from other games is the influence of range on the outcome of combat: close range is best, then max range, followed by the steps closer. Engaging combat gives a clear sum of modifiers on a confirmation sheet, like cover and whether or not the unit has moved. This feature can be turned off in the settings to speed up the game. The mechanisms are good enough to provide depth, yet remain simple enough for quick gameplay. The thing that doesn't stand out well is movement in conjunction with mission goals. Sometimes the goal is to capture flags at turn xx. Many times you really have to rush there, and don't be too tactical. On hard difficulty that's sometimes too hard. Another thing is the reinforcements you aren't really well briefed on. That happens often. [h2]A unique theme [/h2] Pacific battles during WW2 aren't subject of themes often in games. This is done by the names added to the map, and ofcourse the units. It's all flavour though, this is not a simulator. There are five small campaigns (3-5 missions each), with all big nations involved. [h2]The obvious comparison: Panzer Corps[/h2] I recently played a bit of [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/TNTFTB/recommended/268400/]Panzer Corps[/url] coincidentally, and these games look a bit simular. While Panzer Corps is clearly a 'better' game, it's too massive for me! This game is way smaller, and a lot easier to complete. Thus I enjoyed my time with this game more. [h2]Conclusions [/h2] Definitely a hidden gem*, with an asterisk. The reason for this is that the developer HexWar formattized their tactical games. They poored many themes into the same game. Not a bad thing per se. However they even have the same achievements in some games, which feels a tad lazy. Still I liked this game a lot, some battles are even memorable! 68/100 [table] [tr] [td] [i]More reviews at [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39546715/]Omnivore Gamer[/url], games that are easy to control (for handicapped people). [/i][/td] [/tr] [/table]
Tank Battle:Pacific is a good game,it's not frilly by any means and I would like rather bigger maps. It's hard to deploy un-noticed,I think " Civil War Bull Run" handled this a bit better.But those gripes apart there is not much else to moan about.There are different campaigns ,various settings for each , and these are interesting, largely forgotten battles...And they are quite tough scraps - I let the Commonwealth down badly and got creamed by some Japanese paras who just kept infiltrating my crumbling defences. It's tactically sound and requires hard fighting and the right tactics. Ok, in the time I played I encountered no bugs ,crashes or hangups it ran nicely and unbothered on Windows 7x 64 bit.The music and the sound effects are great.There was nothing that seemed silly or unlkely... I think ,this is a good game and real value for money.....
The fact they were able to milk out 7 of theses is crazy. Guess the joke is on me for owning them all in the first place. But I will save you from the same fate that I had to suffer through.
Ancient wargamers like me, played a lot of hexagon-based strategy games back in the day. This was how battles were decided, way before real time strategy was invented. What this series does is capture the spirit of these old games. It's not innovative or groundbreaking. It's simple to play and the battles are fairly quick, but it's a sweet taste of the good old strategy days.
Missions in this one are extremely unfair and difficult. The others, I did not experience this with, but the timers are so short and so ridiculously unfun and unfair that it ruins the game for me completely. Unless you do EXACTLY what they want you to do in each mission, failure is almost a certainty. This isn't strategy or tactics, that's just a puzzle.
Good strategy game. Oldschool design is awesome. You can earn achievements.
Enjoyable "old fashioned" hex based game. No problems seen in 5 hours play.
3/10 not bad but its lacking anything to make it stand out from the 100s of games just like it
Game itself is good. You get exactly what you see in the screenshots. It's a simple WW2 tactics game, fun enough to invest time in it. Problem is I am having problems with certain Steam achievement not working (the one called "Empire", makes me doubt if other similar achievements might act the same). HexWar says support answers in 24h, now it is over a day and still no answer to said problem neither on email nor in game's discussions. Therefor while the achievement bug is not fixed I will leave this negative review to warn others that this game seems not suitable for achievement hunting at this moment.
Where else can you fight Chinese vs. Japanese armies in the 1930s? Or fight the Mongolian skirmishes of Soviet vs. Japanese Imperial army? Or the tank attack against the US at Saipan? Right here, that's where. Typical if the Hexwars tank games - fun, not too serious, worth the buy.
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