This page is about the pbm war game "World at War" for information about the television series chronicling the events of the Second World War see The World at War

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World at War is a play by mail game which is based upon the assumption that a global war is about to break out on a scale equivalent to or greater than WWII. Each player is in charge of one of the countries. This is a strategic level game, with the map consisting of irregular shaped areas, turns being 2 months, land units being mostly divisions, air units are squadrons and naval units are groups of ships. Some of the items and features in the game include:

• Different types of resources (food, fuel, hmetal, lmetal, credits and production) required to build units.
• 10 types of land units (HQ Arm Mech Inf Par Mar Stc AT Art AA)
• 5 type of air units (Ftr LB FB Bmbr ATrn). Air units have to fly out of airbases to do a mission and return to base after the mission
• 6 type of naval units (CFlt HFlt LFlt Sub NATr NTrn)

technology gains can be made in each type of unit

• Units consume resources in performing a mission
• Limited intelligence
• World market to buy and sell resources
• Diplomacy with neutral areas

unlimited number of commands and unlimited number of units in an area

This game is run at http://www.islandnet.com/~dgreenin/emg.htm