Operation Whirlwind

Operation Whirlwind is a video game in the strategy genre and published by Brøderbund Software, Inc. originally released in 1983. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit.

Operation Whirlwind is a tactical scale wargame set in World War II. As a battalion commander of an armored task force, the player is ordered to capture (in 35 game turns, divided into phases) a city 15 kilometers away, defended by opposing forces. You have at your disposal infantry, engineers, reconnaissance, tanks and artillery units. Entrench your troops, deploy bridges, guard against enemy mines and barrage fire.

The player's task is to maneuver over open terrain on a three-screen battle grid in five distinct parts: Unit placement and disposition phase: Entrenched and defending, or in reconnaissance movement.Force movement phase: vertically or horizontally on the gridded map, using the joystick. In movement, it is not possible to shoot. Enemy units are invisible until they shoot at you, and minefields are not visible until you reach them.Combat phase: Here you face artillery and small arms fire.Assault order phase: . In this phase you can advance and maneuver your units that have not exhausted their ammunition in previous operations against enemy formations, using frontal assaults, or rapid flanking armored attacks. Enemy units will be dislodged and move, using their own firepower to try to break your attacks.You will have to employ your engineer units to bridge river crossings while in action.Final Assault Phase:The orders given in the previous phase become a blur in the fog of war, and you must react to the naturally occurring circumstances, as previously undetected enemy units deploy against the assaults as they unfold. With the conclusion of each five-phase turn, the player will be evaluated on his success or failure, and will be offered the opportunity to save or remove the previous game action before continuing on to the next turn.There are four levels of increasingly difficult engagement, each of which will result in five levels of outcome, from total victory, through stalemate, to abject defeat.

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