Order of Battle: Morning Sun PC

Command Japanese forces in the Second Sino-Japanese War, starting with the 1937 escalation into open conflict. This strategy simulation returns Order of Battle: WWII to the Pacific Theatre, focusing on battles like Shanghai where modernized Japanese troops face numerically superior but outdated Chinese armies. Players manage overstretched advances amid shifting initiatives, reinforced by nearly 100 new unit types including biplane fighters, flamethrower vehicles, Type 89 tanks, foreign-sourced T-26s, Panzer I's, and cavalry with horse transportation. Fight across 10 scenarios from Beiping-Tianjin to Chongqing, tackling new terrain like rice fields and the Great Wall. Deploy Construction Group units to build airstrips in chosen spots. Strategy enthusiasts who enjoy detailed unit management and historical Pacific conflicts will find a focused challenge here.

In summer 1937, renewed tensions between Japan and China escalate into open war: The Second Sino-Japanese war has begun.

Order of Battle: WWII comes back to the Pacific Theatre, covering one of the cruellest but most underrated conflicts of the Second World War period.

In Order of Battle: Morning Sun you take control over the Japanese forces fighting for territorial expansion and rich Chinese resources. The conflict soon turns into a massive all-out war between the two sides during the Battle of Shanghai. While the Chinese forces are numerically superior, they have suffered from internal conflict and are poorly equipped with outdated weapons. The recently modernised Japanese Army on the other hand is well trained and experienced, but as the war drags on it gets increasingly overstretched, allowing the enemy to regain the initiative at several occasions...

New units

Japanese armies have been reinforced with several new units including biplane fighters and bombers such as the Ki-10, D1A and A4N1, the Sōkō Sagyō Ki flamethrower-equipped engineering vehicle and Type 89 medium tanks. The Chinese rely heavily on foreign arms deals, resulting in a diverse arsenal made up from Soviet Polikarpov fighters, Tupolev bombers and T-26 tanks, German Panzer I's, Sdkfz 221/222 armoured cars and 37mm PaK guns, Italian L3/33 tankettes, British Gloster Gladiators and many more. Nations now also have access to Cavalry units and Horse Transportation for towed guns. In total, almost 100 new unit types have been added to the game.

Scenarios

Beiping-Tianjin
Operation Chahar
Shanghai
Xuzhou
Lanfeng
Wuhan
Nanchang
Changsha
South Guangxi
Guandong Offensive
Chongqing

New features

• Construction Group unit allows players to construct small airstrips on locations of their own choosing.
  
• Horses: These brave and loyal animals played a vital role in the war, and are now included in the game as part of Cavalry units and Horse Transportation.
  
• New terrain types: Plow through muddy Rice Fields and fight along the Great Wall of China.