Operation Europe: Path to Victory
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Operation Europe: Path to Victory is a combat strategy
video game for multiple platforms where one or two players can compete in World War II
action.
around Western Europe
, Eastern Europe
, Central Europe
, and North Africa
. This game uses abstract numbers and figures in the map view and saves the concrete illustrations of soldiers only when they lock horns on the battlefield
or in an urban
setting. Urban settings give a traditional 1930s view of housing
and office
buildings that provide extra protection for units that are guarding them. However, there are massive numbers to crunch and the lack of graphics help enhance the number crunching ability of game's artificial intelligence.
In Japan, this game is known as .
Scenario 2: "Attack Against North Africa" - Start date: May 26, 1942 at midnight
Scenario 3: "Major Tank Battle of Kursk" - Start date: July 5, 1943 at midnight
Scenario 4: "Battle of Normandy" - Start date: June 6, 1944 at midnight
Scenario 5: "Battle of the Bulge" - Start date: December 16, 1944 at midnight
Scenario 6: "Invasion of Berlin" - Start date: April 16, 1945 at midnight
Strategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...
video game for multiple platforms where one or two players can compete in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
action.
General information
The object of the game is to fulfill any one of the military objectives for either the Axis or the Allied forces. Players engage in modern warfareModern warfare
Modern warfare, although present in every historical period of military history, is generally used to refer to the concepts, methods and technologies that have come into use during and after the Second World War and the Korean War...
around Western Europe
Western Europe
Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
, Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
, Central Europe
Central Europe
Central Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...
, and North Africa
North Africa
North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...
. This game uses abstract numbers and figures in the map view and saves the concrete illustrations of soldiers only when they lock horns on the battlefield
Battle
Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants. In a battle, each combatant will seek to defeat the others, with defeat determined by the conditions of a military campaign...
or in an urban
Urban area
An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets.Urban areas are created and further...
setting. Urban settings give a traditional 1930s view of housing
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
and office
Office
An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...
buildings that provide extra protection for units that are guarding them. However, there are massive numbers to crunch and the lack of graphics help enhance the number crunching ability of game's artificial intelligence.
In Japan, this game is known as .
Scenario
Scenario 1: "French invasion of war" - Start date: May 10, 1940 at midnight- In May 1940, the German army invaded France with the "yellow strategy". An abundance of German armored forces give Hitler's regime the physical superiority and quality over the Anglo-French Army. The quality of the troops are low due to the technological limitation of the earlier years of World War II Axis forces called this campaign Operation YellowBattle of FranceIn the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...
.
Scenario 2: "Attack Against North Africa" - Start date: May 26, 1942 at midnight
- A strategic mission of World War II that took place in North AfricaNorth African campaignDuring the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...
is covered here. Axis naval power may be damaged by partisans in this scenario. The Axis forces must occupy TobrukTobrukTobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....
in order to win the scenario.
Scenario 3: "Major Tank Battle of Kursk" - Start date: July 5, 1943 at midnight
- Soviet troops are introduced here in the first time in the game. This mission takes place in the Eastern Front of World War II. Partisan attack against Axis forces suddenly occur for the first time in this scenario.
Scenario 4: "Battle of Normandy" - Start date: June 6, 1944 at midnight
- Players get to re-enact the opening stages of the Normandy landings as either Nazi GermanyNazi GermanyNazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
or the Anglo-American forces.
Scenario 5: "Battle of the Bulge" - Start date: December 16, 1944 at midnight
- Under Operation Autumn Mist, German forces attack the Anglo-American forces in an reenactment of the well-known Battle of the BulgeBattle of the BulgeThe Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
. This is the only scenario to feature snow; which slows down marching speed.
Scenario 6: "Invasion of Berlin" - Start date: April 16, 1945 at midnight
- This scenario takes place in the Eastern Front again. In this scenario, the OderOderThe Oder is a river in Central Europe. It rises in the Czech Republic and flows through western Poland, later forming of the border between Poland and Germany, part of the Oder-Neisse line...
River as German and Soviet forces battle to control Berlin. Axis forces are at a complete disadvantage in this scenario. The goal of this campaign is the Allied occupation of two major German cities.