wegman58 -> RE: Question (4/6/2018 11:44:26 AM)
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ORIGINAL: crsutton Well, if you really want to know fully about the War in the Pacific, I contend that you almost have to play this game. History books are great for detail but I learn best from visual images and now understand why so many things happened they way they did. I thought I knew a great deal about the Pacific conflict. But would have never understood it like I do now without experiencing this simulation. Just knowing the geography alone is worth the cost. So, yes it is a pain to master but has been well worth it for me. +1 The game provides a framework and context for everything you read in books / on the internet, and more importantly that context provides reasoning for your brain to retain the information instead of discarding it. Before WitP:AE, I knew the broad strokes of the Pacific War - Midway and the like, but nowhere near the detail I do now - to the point I've had a WW2 historian recently make the comment in conversation "you know what you're talking about". That said, there is still a bunch to learn. Keep in mind that the game isn't 100% accurate - it is a game after all, not a WW2 simulator. For example, there's no such location as "Shortlands" IRL (i.e. the game base on the south tip of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands). That in-game base is actually a combination of the real base of Buin combined with the neighboring Shortland Islands. Yet the game is close enough most of the time to be of benefit. If you can supplement the game with books as well as museums (if you have access to any), it will help even more. Not much beats standing on the bridge of an Iowa class battleship, the hangar deck of a WW2 carrier, or seeing three Japanese Zeroes fly in formation. You should be able to access books at least, and if you don't have any museums/monuments nearby, then find out where they are and let them influence your choice of future vacation destinations. You make me feel old. I remember sharing a pier with USS NEW JERSEY. It is BIG. Not as big as a super-carrier, but BIG!
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