DG: World at War Issue #54, with Midway Solitaire, Japanese Offensive in the Pacific 1942, Boardgame

Description

Mag & game. Solitaire game of the grander situation in the Pacific during the spring-summer of 1942 which culminated in the Battle of Midway but also including Coral Sea & the invasion of the Aleutian Islands. Player assumes command of US forces, and must defeat multiple Japanese forces and lines of attack with inferior numbers. Relatively complex as it mixes solitaire structures with both a strategic & operation game of naval operatons in the Pacific (with a fog of war). 176 counter, variable time frame (1-7 days), 1-4 ships/counter. Joseph Miranda, Eric Harvey'17 / ARTICLES ON: Grand Strategy in the Pacific, Coral Sea & Midway 1942; Escape of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian Commando, 1943; Cossacks of the Third Reich; Rommel in Egypt & the Middle East; Germany's Type XXI Walter U-Boat; Below the Blitz, London's Firefighters; Adventures of Mad Jack Churchill.