Neo Tech has specially chosen one of the most tragic and bloody battles in the history of modern warfare - the eight-year War of Resistance, as the background theme of the game. This section of war history that Chinese people are most familiar with has been adapted into a rare war strategy game in recent years. The most heroic battle requires players to participate together. In the game, the player plays as a Nationalist army officer, who serves as the commander of a small camp, responsible for leading the troops to complete the tasks assigned by his superior. The situation at this time has become very tense. The Japanese army launched the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, intending to invade on a large scale, and China declared war formally out of necessity. A great war that would affect the world situation thus began.
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, thus starting the eight-year military war between China and Japan; this tragic history is undoubtedly familiar to all players. But after all, the anti-Japanese war stories described in history textbooks are extremely distant things for young players. The events that happened in that great era have only left an impression like a story, without the opportunity to feel it seriously. The "Eight-Year War of Resistance" developed and produced by Neo Tech is a strategic game with the Sino-Japanese War as its theme. The whole game is based on this eight-year war history, allowing players to participate in various large and small battles, experience dozens of battles, understand the differences in manpower, equipment, and tactics between the two sides through the process of the game, and thus feel the tense situation of the Chinese battlefield more than fifty years ago and the intense battle situation at that time.
Regardless of whether domestic or foreign strategy games rarely take the Sino-Japanese War as the theme, "Eight-Year War of Resistance" focuses on the subject matter that domestic players are most familiar with, designing the Sino-Japanese War as the main storyline, allowing players to play as commanders of the Central China theater, from the Battle of Shanghai, experiencing the famous battles of Xuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, etc., plus the new grand counter-offensive plot added by the production team, the total number of levels will exceed 50, with a very large content; besides recreating the real war history against Japan, it also adds the grand counter-offensive plan that the Nationalist Army did not carry out at that time, allowing players to personally try how the Nationalist Army would carry out the counter-offensive and reclaim lost territory if Japan had not surrendered prematurely due to the Allies dropping the atomic bomb!
In order to fit the game's storyline, players must start as a small camp commander in the early stages, leading a pitifully small number of poorly trained and equipped troops to execute various tasks. Each time a task is completed, some new equipment and reinforcements can be obtained, and players need to make good use of these materials to expand their troops and strengthen their combat power. Then continue to accumulate military achievements, increase reputation values, and keep getting promoted, from regiment commander, brigade commander, division commander... gradually becoming the theater commander! It can be imagined that when the player becomes the theater commander, leading an elite group army to carry out the final general counter-offensive, it must be a very pleasant thing!
In addition to the plot arrangement, what strategy games focus on, of course, is how the entire game's strategy is done. After all, in a war, in addition to the number of troops, the quality of equipment, and the supply of materials, the decisive factor lies in the application and arrangement of strategies. In "Eight-Year War of Resistance", terrain is the biggest factor affecting the application of strategies. Different terrains have different defense levels for different types of troops, and the height of the terrain absolutely affects the effectiveness of attacks. Players must respond to the situation of each level's battlefield, plan the best attack route or defense formation, and use the cover of the terrain and the arrangement of routes, often achieving surprising victories with fewer troops! Moreover, using different types of troops effectively, making good use of the special skills of the troops, and applying tactics such as luring enemies, encircling and annihilating them, surprise attacks, landmines, air strikes, etc., if they can be integrated and applied flexibly, they will surely defeat the enemy and sing songs of victory!
In addition to testing the player's strategic mind, the cultivation and training strategy is also an extremely important part of the game. At the beginning of the game, the player will start as a small camp commander leading three or five troops, gradually establishing merits, expanding the troops, using limited materials and equipment, cultivating invincible super generals, and then establishing a powerful army with both mobility and attack power!
The "Eight-Year War of Resistance" is designed with eighteen different types of troops, including light and heavy infantry, various heavy and light tanks, cannons, commandos, engineers... More particularly, there is also the famous big knife team during the anti-Japanese war period. Each type of troop, because of its different attributes, is suitable for different battlefield terrains or tactical missions; after completing each level's mission, the player can obtain various materials or equipment, which can be arranged and combined at will. In the preparation mode, establish various troops to deal with future possible situations. Moreover, the higher the experience value of the troops, the stronger their performance on the battlefield, and well-trained troops can often achieve strength with weakness and display the combat power of one against a hundred; and the morale of the troops is also a key factor affecting the strength of the attack. However, under the tight situation, you do not have much time to reorganize and train properly. How to deal with continuous battle tasks while strengthening the combat power of your own troops will be the greatest challenge for all players.
Neo Tech's release of this long-awaited domestic war strategy game allows fans of such games to no longer have to choose only English versions. With the most familiar anti-Japanese war background, it is definitely a game worth trying.
Anti-Japanese Eight-Year War Resistance Cheats
In battlefield mode: select any unit, then execute the 'Rest' command
After the rest effect appears but before it ends, quickly move the mouse cursor to the upper-right corner where the system command icons are located, and click continuously more than 10 times.
Remember, this action must be completed before the rest effect finishes.
Even if a save or load window appears, it doesn't matter.
Just right-click once to remove it.
If done correctly, a command input bar will appear at the bottom of the screen.
At this point, you can type in commands.
To check if cheats are enabled, just try typing a few English words.
power = Fully restores the selected unit's morale, combat power, and experience immediately.
point = Restores all units' action points.
mat = Increases total resources by 100.
supply = Supplies specific resources to a selected unit (deducts from total resources).