Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: YankeeAirRat

I am going to have to say honestly, buy all three. I enjoy playing UV when I don't want to dive completely in to managing the whole war and instead trying to run only the SW Pacific Campagin. WitP is for when I do want to the challenge of trying to save Singapore and Ragoon for springboards back into Java and the Philippines and trying to save Wake. With WPO, I enjoy the challenge of having to comply with the original war plans that basically stated the Army would hold the line at Bataan and the Navy would sortie from either Guam or Singapore escorting additional army forces meanwhile having another force attempting to hunt the Japanese Fleet for engagement. Yes WPO has ships that are slower and aircraft that are basically flying kites, but at the same time that is what that time frame entailed. Which were slow ships, for a couple of the scenarios in WPO, that because they weren't designed to be fast steamers, but rather for long ranges.

Regardind the scenario listing for UV:
You have the
A Tutorial op to teach the basics of ampib landings, carrier ops, airbase ops, sub ops, supply ops, etc
Coral Sea May 1 1942 thru the 15th
Battle of Eastern Solomons 21Aug42 thru 31Aug42
Battle of Milne Bay and Kokada track 21Aug42 thru 20Sept42
Four Weeks of Hell 22Oct42 thru 18Nov42 (this one covers the battle of Bloody Rige and Tienuru River and the final attempts of the Japanese to dislodge the 1st MarDiv)
Road to Munda 15Jun43 to 15Aug 43
Operation MO 1May42 to 31Jul42
Turning Tide 1AUG42 thru 31DEC42 (Operation Watchtower)
Green Hell 1Oct42 thru 31Dec42 (Covers the major ground ops to dislodge the Marines)
Stalemate and Counterpunch 15Feb43 thr 15May43 (covers the run up to Lae and the landings on Bouginville)
Summer of 43 15Jun43 to 15Oct43 (further covering ops against rabual)
Operation Cartwheel 15Jun43 to 31Dec43
Begining of the End 1May42 to 31Dec42 (Coral Sea to Guadalcanal)
Fortress Rabual 15Feb43 to 31Dec43 (total time frame of Operation Cartwheel)
Hard Road ahead 1Aug42 to 31Dec43 (Watchtower to end of major combat ops in Solomon Chain)
Clash of the Titans 1Jul42 to 31Dec43 (Post Midway to the end of Major Combat Ops in Solomon Chain)
Yammatos Propchey 1Jun42 to 31Dec43 (this one is a hypothetical in the sense that the scenario may or may not allow for the loses during the Midway operation)
Decision in the South Pacific 1May42 to 31Dec43 (this one is the grand campaign, but is also hypothetical because the game assumes that Midway didn't happen)
South from Rabual 1May42 to 31Dec43 (again a grand campaign, but again hypothetical that assumes the Russians have pulled troops from Siberia earlier and this allows Japanese troops to arrive from China, There is improved pilot training, and finally there is accelerated Japanese Re-enforcement)

Like I said it would be worthwhile to buy all three and find a way to put some time into all of them.