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WWII Online is set in 1940–1944 World War II in Western Europe. It is a virtual battlefield and a combined arms war simulation. A player can command or crew a variety of accurately modeled aircraft; armored fighting vehicles, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft artillery, four naval vessels, fight as a foot-soldier with a variety of infantry weapons, or play as a paratrooper and drop from either a ...
Transrapid 09 at the Emsland test facility in Lower Saxony, Germany A full trip on the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train Example of low-speed urban maglev system, Linimo. Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by electromagnets rather than rolled on wheels, eliminating rolling resistance.
Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was an English electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" [1] for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system after Hermann Kemper's theories and after Charles Wheatstone's pioneering.
Both games were published by a number of other companies, including Athol and Waddingtons. [3] In a 1976 poll conducted by Simulations Publications Inc. to determine the most popular board wargames in North America, Patton placed a dismal 201st out of 202 games. [4]
World War II Online: Battleground Europe (High Command) (2009) War Leaders: Clash of Nations (2009) R.U.S.E. (2010) Timelines: Assault on America (2013) (alternate history) Call of War (2015) (Online. PC port: Call of War: World War 2.) DomiNations (2015) Hills Of Glory 3D (2015) Military Operations: Benchmark (2018) Radio General (2020)
They felt that although Headquarters: World War II is a good introduction to Slitherine Software's catalog of computer wargames, they would have preferred more background detail to dispel myths about the war. [2] Multiplayer.it compared it to the modern XCOM games but said it is more targeted toward fans of computer wargames. [5]
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Pearl Harbor, subtitled "The War Against Japan, 1941–1945", is a board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1977. Despite the title, the game simulates the entire Pacific Theater of World War II, not just the attack on Pearl Harbor. Serious issues with the rules surfaced after the game was published, and a much-improved ...