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To my fellow hobbyists on the WitP:AE Forums, warmest greetings:
I had the memorable pleasure a few years ago of investigating in great detail the then-newly released “War in the Pacific”. I spent many enjoyable hours researching this truly epic and enormous wargame; coming to understand it’s operating principles and concepts, discussing several matters I didn’t quite grasp with players whom I’d come to admire through their posts and AARs, and generally becoming enthused and engrossed with the staggering scope of this product. I believe I spent, conservatively speaking, about four months researching that game.
You can imagine my delight when, just a couple of weeks ago, I saw that WitP had launched an “Admiral’s Edition“; and as you can imagine I have been spending many pleasing hours now studying the Forum in detail with all the energy, probity and discernment that a lifetime hobbyist has about such things.
To be honest, I didn’t purchase WitP back then. It was a split decision, a close call, a 51/49 kind of thing. Generally, most people believed the game was very playable provided one agreed to various house-rules and accepted occasional bugginess and shortfalls in the game’s design. As I’ve said, this is an enormous game, the sweep of which covers hundreds of units over thousands of miles over a span of years; my respect for the game’s developers and contributors is really quite high, and to be realistic anything of this magnitude is more than likely going to be a bit thin in an area or two. Whether a certain concept or result of gameplay was a relatively minor and acceptable fault, or a real game-breaker, seemed to be a matter of personal opinion amongst members of the Forum. For me, seeing how much my long-time hobby has benefited from applying the power of the computer has been inspiring; so much more that so many talented individuals have undertaken the task of attempting to simulate the entire war in the Pacific!
So do I plan on purchasing WitP:AE? Yes, absolutely. When? Not soon. Should this be taken as some kind of critique of the Admiral’s Edition as it now exists? Not at all. I have nothing but admiration for the game’s designers and contributors. What has been accomplished here is outstanding, and to give it anything less is to fail to see the forest for the trees.
So why don’t I get the game? Fair question.
In the first place, it’s pretty evident I need a hardware upgrade. It’s not something I can necessarily get to very soon. Secondly, I’ve noticed the patches and bugfixes are coming at a much slower rate now, and the game is reaching a very high state of polish. Simply put, there are far fewer people in the Forums posting concerns about critical fixes, and I believe the best time for me to get the game is not now far off. Thirdly, I believe she will be a very demanding taskmaster. No beer and pretzels here. This is going to require an extremely high amount of study and practice over a very substantial amount of time if it’s to be done rightly, and I am absolutely rubbing my hands in anticipation of this.
And lastly, I want to make sure I take the time to give my future opponents a very spirited go of it! ;)
All the best to each and every one,
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