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Uncommon Valour (PC)

by Just Flight
Platform:   Windows XP / Me / NT / 98 / 2000
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Platform:   Windows XP / Me / NT / 98 / 2000
  • Media: Video Game

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  • ASIN: B00009ZKVQ
  • Release Date: 20 Jun 2003
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,936 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Uncommon Valour is a highly detailed war game recreating the military campaigns in the South Pacific theatre of Operations from May 1942 to 1943. The game accounts for individual ships and planes as well as the skills and abilities of the individual pilots and ships captains.

The game consists of a tutorial in which players learn the basic game functions. There are 18 scenarios of varying length that allow players to recreate specific battles and campaigns using the historically available resources, or hypothetical scenarios that allow war gamers to determine the outcome of the World War II battles.

The game recreates for players the challenges faced by the historical commanders in the theatre, in that they never have sufficient resources available to achieve the objectives, and that ultimately they rely on the skills ability and bravery (uncommon valour) of their frontline soldiers, sailors and airmen.

Players must create task forces made up of different mixtures of ship/aircraft types depending on the mission, such as Sea Combat, Bombardment and Amphibious Assault, as well as the mundane re-supply missions. The player must then coordinate these forces to attack and defend the various base locations scattered across the vast expanse of the South Atlantic.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Strategy - Well Recommended, 19 Jun 2003
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For anyone who enjoys strategy games this game ranks there with the best of them. Ever since watching Tora, Tora, Tora!!! and The Battle of Midway as a kid I've waited for a game that would give me control over Carrier Battle Groups, Battleships, Cruisers and Destroyers, and finally its here. Pearl Harbour and Midway aren't actually battles you can fight in the game, but fear not there's plenty more!

The games revolves around the action in the Solomons and Coral Sea from early '42 to late '43 with all of the Naval, Air and Land action covered from individual ships to battalions of infantry and squadrons of planes. Players form task forces from their available ships to a maximum of 25 ships per task force with which to accomplish goals such as taking an island which could require a carrier TF for cover, bombardment TF to soften up the defenses, mine sweepers to clear the path and a transport TF to land the troops. If you prefer you can send the grunts over land to launch an attack should your have had you TF's blown away and resting at the bottom of the Pacific. Of course once there troops need supplies, ships and planes need fuel and defenses need to be built, all of which must be provided by the player in order to win.

Plenty of scenarios are included from short 10 day engagements to learn the system to a full May '42 - August '43 campaign. Game play is quick and easy to learn though a thorough read of the CD manual is required to fully understand all elements.

Not a game for people who want none stop action but if you've ever enjoyed a game from Gary Gigsby of Steel Panthers fame then this is another sure to please, "Scratch One Flat Top!!!"

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Least amount of fun I have had in a long time, 8 Jul 2005
By Donaldo "Book lover" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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Polishing the brass bell on your battleship. Cutting up sandwiches for the victory parade. Cooking lunch for the ship's crew. Ironing creases in your khaki. Taking the 4am Guard shift at the naval base. These are some of the things that you won't need to do in the course of playing this game, though sometimes it feels like you aren't far short. You literally have to direct every plane and ship. You have to decide what type of mission should your planes fly, what altitude, etc. Mind numbing levels of micro-management. I am sure some people enjoy this sort of detail immensely, but frankly I found it to be a right bore. The theatre of war is accurately created, and as part of the problem, you have very little land units to work with.

Most of the decisive action will be naval, and though this is a bit obvious given it is in Pacific, land combat is a total waste of time. The way to win is to sink the enemy fleet, and then starve the enemy troops on the islands into submission. The only thing land units do is shoot at each other slowly over the course of 1,000,000 turns and eventually one side will win. It makes it all the more bizzare that you can decide what elements of say, an infantry battalion, will take part in an assault, when it ultimately makes no difference, really.

I have given two stars because I think this is a game some people would really enjoy, but speaking for myself, I prefer a game that gets the aldrenaline going a little. Total War this isn't.

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