♦ Company to brigade sized units, with battalion level amphibious operations.
♦ Challenging real-time gameplay, where split-second decisions can mean the choice between victory and defeat. ♦ Uses an enhanced version of the ATF: Armored Task Force engine (also used in Raging Tiger: The Second Korean War), a military-grade simulation wrapped up in a civilian package. ".those who enjoy the thrill of complex, detailed military strategies will find a worthy title to add to their libraries." This one makes sense, a lot of sense at that." -Jim Werbaneth, Line of Departure One of the highest forms of praise that one can offer a wargame, on computer or cardboard, is to say that it makes sense. "For all this though, The Falklands War: 1982 remains an extremely impressive product. This game/sim will show you how the military works and what can be done in a realistic way." -Code Cowboy, GameZone Online "You are in for a subtle, yet engaging treat. The Falklands War: 1982 is what true wargaming is all about you don't just play history, you learn history (and perhaps even change it). The human element has not been neglected either, with skill ratings for troops made up of ten different areas of expertise in military operations andĪ detailed light infantry combat resolution system down to bayonet attacks. Informative scenarios that present the player with the same challenges faced by real-world commanders in 1982, The Falklands War: 1982 will have you smelling cordite and diesel.
From playing on the actual topographical maps the British forces used of the island, to the intensely accurate statistics for weapon platforms, to Using an enhanced version of the highly regarded ATF: Armored Task Force engine, The Falklands War: 1982 is the ultimate real-time simulation of the conflict. Now ProSIM and Shrapnel Games gives you the chance to relive history. Galtieri, whose raison d'être for the war was to insure his political survival, ultimately gave up the power he was trying to tenaciously cling to. Like a recipe for defeat the British forces triumphed easily over the Argentine forces, capturing 11,000 prisoners and suffering only a couple hundred casualties. The British forces, which had been outnumbered from the start, had cobbled together an invasion force of leaky ships without adequate air cover to fight a war thousands of miles away from England over mostly empty rock. Seventy-two days later the conflict was over. Why not take what they had claimed was theirs for all those decades? On April 2nd the war began, with thousands of Argentine troops Civil unrest had been steadily growing, inflation was taking its toll on the economy (which was already in shambles), and if the people did not have an external enemy they would soon turn on the junta. True military objective, but simply to save his skin, and the other heavy handed rulers of Argentina.
On March 26th, 1982 the Argentinean dictatorship of General Galtieri decided to invade the islands in an operation titled Operación Rosario, not for any Argentina had claimed the islands since 1820, but the British actually occupied the islands from 1833 onwards. Ownership of the islands has always been a hotly contested issue between the governments of Argentina and Great Britain. With a total population of only a couple thousand stalwart individuals (and many more sheep and livestock) the Falklands seems an odd place to fight a war over, but that's exactly what happened in 1982. Territories of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands are administered. The only town is also the capital of the region, Port Stanley, and it is from there that the British Three hundred miles off the Argentina coast in the south Atlantic lay the Falkland Islands, consisting of two main isles (East and West Falkland) and about two hundred smaller islands.
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