Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan 1941-1945

From Designer Mark Herman:

Pacific War is a Strategic wargame that takes you from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the climatic summer of 1945… from Australia to China… from Burma to Hawaii… from the defense of Wake Island through the invasion of Guadalcanal culminating in the desperate battles to defend the Japanese Home Islands.

 For the first time in a Pacific Theater game, size, subtlety, and ease of play has come together in a game of sharp action and historical accuracy.

Players can become familiar with the layered Pacific War systems in the solitaire Engagement scenarios, then fight their way through increasingly panoramic Battle, Campaign, and Strategic two player and multi-player Scenarios. As they learn the game's basic maneuver and combat systems, they will then layer on more advanced systems for Strategic bombing, submarine attacks on merchant shipping, search and detection, amphibious assaults, and extensive Operations driven by their command decisions.

Pacific War is a source of limitless challenge and excitement for anyone ever fascinated with the fury and vastness of the Pacific War.

The structure and feel of the design are unchanged, so if you played it in your youth, you already know how to play. That said, a devoted number of players have been playing this game for 35 years and I have incorporated the best of their feedback into this new and final edition for this title. I am going over each scenario and updating them with information that I did not have available back in 1985. For example, I now have several Japanese translations of their official records that were only published in the last few years. Toward this end, I am adding at least six new campaign and strategic scenarios, so you can experience the entire panorama of the war in a long afternoon .

GAME CONTENTS

• 4 inch box
• 3 rulebooks
• 2 22 x 34 inch mounted maps
• 1 cardboard scenario map
• 9 counter sheets
• 1 pad of 24 Replacement Record Sheets
• 1 8.5 x 22 Operations Display
• 1 11 x 34 Japanese Display Sheet
• 1 11 x 34 Allied Display Sheet
• 1 11 x 34 Japanese Screen
• 1 11 x 34 Allied Screen
• baggies
• 2 ten-sided dice