For a game to cover the entire theater, it has to be deep and have various systems to cover all of the different types of actions. Strategic wargame that covers the entirety of the Pacific Theater of World War II…pretty big game, both in scale and distance.
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. So, this one interests me because it will be a new experience for me. Unfortunately, I did not play the original Pacific War as I was 12 years old and focused on other things (baseball, football) and other games (mainly Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing in my teens). Now I know that Pacific War is not EotS but it definitely was a precursor and led to its design and development.
Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan, 1941-1945 from GMT Gamesīoth Alexander and I love Empire of the Sun and really enjoy Mark Herman designs.
If you are interested in A Hot Dry Season: Operation Attleboro in War Zone Cyou can pre-order a copy from the Legion Wargames website for $70.00 at the following link: 2. We recently posted an interview with first time designer Patrick Mullen on our blog and you can read that at the following link: While sharing core concepts and “DNA” in resolution of play and movement/combat mechanisms, each title is built from the “Ground-Up” allowing specific tailoring of concepts and rules mechanisms in an attempt to accurately evoke the very different Campaigns fought during the Vietnam War from 1965-1975 and faithfully incorporate the dynamic changes in force structure and composition, weapons and ISR capabilities, specific operational goals and difficulties, and terrain and regional variances unique to Vietnam and the Vietnam War. To the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN – the NLF Strategic command in that area), Operation Attleboro was unexpected early contact by a force attempting to conduct an offensive that snowballed into a desperate defense and fighting withdrawal to protect precious logistic and command capabilities essential to their future operations in III Corps Tactical Zone (III CTZ).įrom the game page we read the following:ĪHDS is the first entry in a new series, Campaigns in Vietnam, which features a “Ground-Up Build” system. Operation Attleboro was a meeting engagement in War Zone C that grew into the largest operation involving US Forces conducted in South Vietnam at that time. A Hot Dry Season: Operation Attleboro in Warzone C from Legion WargamesĪ Hot Dry Season: Operation Attleboro in War Zone C is an operational-level game dealing with the National Liberation Front (NLF) Dry Season Offensive in the III Corps Tactical Zone (III CTZ) in November 1966 and the subsequent counterattack by forces under the command of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). If you missed the April Wargame Watch, you can read that here at the following link: Pre-Order 1. If that is the case, you will be on the look out for more games to collect dust on those shelves so here is a look at 12 new games that I found this month that you might be interested in. We are approaching nearly two months in quarantine and I am assuming that many of you have finally got around to playing some of those games languishing on your “shelves of shame”.