| Second
World War at Sea and Great War at Sea
Cone of Fire
 At the turn of the last century, South America
seemed poised to make the same economic leap as
the northern half of the hemisphere. Fueled by
booming exports of grain, cattle, coffee and rubber,
Brazil and Argentina saw their economies grow rapidly
and at one time both stood among the world's ten
wealthiest nations.
All that cash led their leaders to seek the prestige
symbols of the day: dreadnought battleships. Argentina,
Brazil and Chile all built dreadnoughts just like
the Great Powers, but none of them ever fired a
shot at a foreign enemy.
  
Cone of Fire is a boxed game for both the Second
World War at Sea and Great
War at Sea series. The
fleets of Argentina, Brazil and Chile plus those
of Peru and Uruguay are added to both series, along
with ships from Germany, France and Britain. Most
of the scenarios, or game situations, are based
on hypothetical situations arising from the actual
war scares between the South American nations and
sometimes European interlopers, and the war plans
with which they addressed them.
There are also scenarios based on the actual conflicts
which took place in South American waters: the
hunt for Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's German
cruiser squadron in 1914, and the hunt for the
cruiser that bore his name 25 years later.
  
Alongside the ships actually operated by the South
American naval powers, there are also ships they
ordered and did not receive, or contemplated but
did not order. The Brazilians have several projected
classes of battleships that they never completed,
as well as the modern warships they sought from
the U.S. Navy during World War II. Argentina and
Chile have their projected battleships, carriers
and cruisers as well. And there are the actual
jet aircraft flown by Argentina and Brazil.
There are six maps, three at Second
World War at Sea scale, and three at Great
War at Sea scale.
These cover the region from south of Tierra del
Fuego, the southernmost tip of the Americas, to
well north of Rio de Janeiro. There are huge stretches
of ocean as well as the narrow, winding channels
of the Chilean coast.
You can learn to play Great War at Sea in
just five minutes with this demo.
You can learn to play Second World War at Sea in
just five minutes with this demo.
You can read much more about the ships, aircraft,
politics and more of Cone
of Fire through these
links to our exclusive Daily Content:
 Stock Code; APL0606
Status:
This game is no longer available
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