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Deca -> WitPAE + Eagle Against the Sun = Prophetic (5/4/2011 4:06:15 AM)
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Having played gainst the AI enough to feel comfortable, I am about to enter into Civil War bother against brother warfare PBEM in which I will be playing the allies & my brother Japan. Looking to get more into the spirit of the pacific theatre, I decided to do some additional reading on it, one of which is Eagle Against the Sun.
Immediately, I was taken back by how precisely the words of the book are reflected with a nearly uncanny accuracy via the game dynamics within WitPAE.
For instance, in the introduction, "The Major problem involved in defeating Japan proved to be less a matter of choosing the correct strategy than of breaking the logistical bottlenecks - devising means of getting critical items, whether amphibious craft, cargo ships, fighter planes, engineer battalions, or transport aricraft - to the right portions of the battlefronts on time and in sufficient numbers."
Page 83
"...yet the loss of so many aging battleships did not delay the start of an American offensive nearly so much as did the shortage of aricraft carriers, amphibious shipping, and destroyers."
Page 84:
"In hindsight, Japan's geatest mistake was not so much to attack Pearl Harbor as it was to attack the United States at all."
I am enjoying the hell out of this book & astounded by the prophetic nature of those sentences; hats off to WitPAE & a damn fine game.
Although I am extremely confident that before '45 I'll be drinking saki in Tokyo, it's tainted by the knowledge it'll have to be pried from my brother's hands.
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