Six Air Directives types - Ground Support - Ground Attack - Strategic Bombing - Air Recon - Air Superiority - Naval Patrol Each Air Force HQ is given Air Directives which are used to generate missions

Fixed airfields on map with additional construction possible Comprehensive new air game with a separate air resolution phase The map is built as a part of an enormous War in Europe map which is 378x355 hexes, a building block to a future 'mega unprecedented scale' game (134k hexes) Improved map projection that minimizes map distortion effects caused by using a flat map for a round world Improved weather graphics showing all effects on the map in each hex ground, air and water (ice) Road Quality by Country impacts weather effects

All the terrain types from War in the East, plus new terrain types for bocage, tundra, desert, sand, escarpment/impassable, and ferries Huge size (36k hexes versus 25k for War in the East) With a new, highly accurate map of Europe, an incredibly detailed order of battle down to each squad, vehicle and plane, a very realistic logistics system (including rail usage, depots, trucks, ports and realistic interdiction), full modeling of the air as well as ground wars and a weather system that tracks and models individual weather fronts as they move across the map, War in the West is the new definitive wargame of the Western Front. There is also an East Front Control option and tracking of the front line and the entire order of battle in the East for German players that wish to make the strategic decisions on how to balance their forces between the Western and Eastern Fronts. Based on the War in the East engine with years of additional major features and improvements, War in the West provides players the chance to pick alternative strategies in both the land and air parts of the war. Thousands of feet above the battles on the ground, War in the West also covers the air war and the Allied strategic bombing campaign. Starting with the Summer 1943 invasions of Sicily and Italy and proceeding through the invasions of France and the drive into Germany, War in the West brings you all the Allied campaigns in Western Europe and the capability to re-fight the Western Front according to your plan. Gary Grigsby’s War in the West is the most ambitious and detailed computer wargame on the Western Front of World War II ever made.

Commando 2 2017