November 21^st, 2005 (1:10am) - Matrix Games, 2by3 Games, and Justin Prince Designs have announced that War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 has gone gold and should release within a week.

War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 puts you in control of Japan or the Allies (including The United States, Great Britain, The Commonwealth, France and the Netherlands) in a hypothetical post-World War 1 conflict that would have reshaped the future of the world. Enjoy the historical accuracy and meticulous attention to detail through an immersive strategic and operational wargame engines ever created.

Two campaigns (with variants) cover what could have been two very different, yet similar, wars in the same decade.

In the first campaign covering the years 1922-1926, battleships are still the dominant naval weapons, with the aircraft carrier being only a military toy still very much in its infancy. The airplane, which had proved a potent factor in land warfare in Europe during World War I, had yet to prove its viability to impact naval affairs.

In the second campaign, covering a war during 1926-1930, the World War I era battleships are rebuilt into forms that would historically be famous in World War II. The Aircraft carrier, while no longer just an experiment, has still not found its niche in naval warfare. Larger, stronger, better armed aircraft now begin to replace the frail planes that had been veterans of World War I.

For more information on War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922-1930 and War in the Pacific visit the Matrix Games website at www.matrixgames.com .