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Theater Commander: The Coming Wars is a real-time modern warfare simulation built around campaigns and individual battles. You command joint air, naval and land forces of up to half a million soldiers, carrying out missions such as destroying hostile fleets, landing on enemy territory, crossing borders and seizing enemy cities. Its scenarios depict hypothetical conflicts around the globe, from the Sea of Japan and the Korean Peninsula to the Taiwan Strait, the Indian subcontinent, Sinai, Eastern Europe and Crimea.

Command and combat

Battles can involve thousands of land units, down to company level, alongside air and naval forces. For most operations, you can set unit routes and leave tactical manoeuvres, weapon choices and other parameters to the AI. The game also supports airborne attacks, helicopter assaults and amphibious missions, as well as the launch and interception of short-range ballistic and long-range cruise missiles.

The engine calculates engagements using factors including terrain, unit strength, weapons and morale. Air and naval combat also accounts for directional radar cross-section, supersonic manoeuvrability, weapons envelopes and electronic technology. Missile attacks and interceptions are calculated in near real time and shown with animation.

Maps and forces

Battle maps cover areas of up to 2,000 km by 2,000 km and use satellite terrain, land-cover and human-facility data. This includes features such as mountains, hills, plains, rivers, forests, grassland, scrubland, deserts, roads, railways, cities and airports. Most aircraft, warships and land units have real names and the weapons they serve with in their countries, based on the developers’ data gathering.

Scenarios

The game includes more than a dozen scenarios:

• Battle of Sea of Japan: Japan intercepts Russian fleet
• Clash in East China Sea: Japan thwarts Chinese adventure
• Unification of Korean Peninsula: S. Korea invades N. Korea
• Cross the Strait: China attacks Taiwan
• Invasion of Vietnam: China attacks Vietnam
• India and Pakistan: India invades Pakistan
• Confrontation in the Indian Ocean: India battles Chinese fleet
• Violation of Sinai Peninsula: Israel attacks Egypt
• Aegean Sea: Greece thwarts Turkey attempts
• The Second Crimea War: US attacks Russia
• Feud in Eastern Europe: Poland fights Russia
• Blood in the Norwegian Sea: UK intercepts Russian fleet
• Luxembourg_Forest: France in a war game against Germany