Axis & Allies Guadalcanal

[Admiral_Thrawn]

The japanese will be Revised orange not brown if that helps out at all.

[Guest]

It looks interesting.  I have been on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Gizo, and Kolumbangara, and spent a lot of time talking with the local people.  They still passionately hate the Japanese, by the way.  I will be interested in how they handle the supply situation, having been an Army supply officer, and also having studied the Guadalcanal campaign for 47 years now.  I will also be interested in how they handle attacking an airfield to render it unfit to land.  In World War 2, it took an average of 8 bomb hits, the bombs weighing at least 100 pounds, per 1,000 feet of runway to knock out a Japanese airfield for 24 hours.  Twelve bombs hits per 1,000 feet or using bombs weighing 500 pounds would take the Japanese about 48 hours to repair.  Generally, the US could repair a runway in about half the time of the Japanese.  Henderson Field was never really knocked out the entire campaign, and with it being 200 feet wide with hard packed coral, the Japanese never really mustered the needed bomber force to knock it out.  US accuracy from 14,000 feet against runways was about 1 hit per 6 bombs dropped.  Based on analysis of Japanese level bombing attacks, their accuracy was about one-half of that.  So 8 bombs X 4,000 feet of runway X 6 bombs for one hit X 2 for poor accuracy adds up to 384 bombs dropped to knock out the airfield.  I think that the Betty could rack twelve 110 pound bombs, so that means a minimum of 32 Betties to deliver the needed bombs.  I do not think that the Japanese ever put 32 bomb-carrying Betties over Henderson Field.  I will need to look that up.  Regardlless, I will look forward to seeing the game, and at the very least, I  will have more naval miniatures to use for other naval rules and game design.

[Guest]

@Flashman:

According to this post

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/181064

there are no tanks. So we’re still stuck with the shortage from AAR.  Claims the Japanese are in “light brown”.  Another in the long series of Japanese colours indistinguishable (to me) from at least one allied colour.

The Japaneses used very few tanks on Guadalcanal, with the only use being the attack in late October of 1942.  The ones uses were the T95 light tank, which were not terribly good.  The Marines had a company of M2A4 light tanks that they used in the Tenaru River fight, but were kept in reserve thereafter.  Believe me, Guadalcanal is NOT good tank country.  With the hills and jungle, it is strictly an infantry and artilllery fight.

[frimmel]

Timerover51 thanks for the information. That stuff about how many bombs you need to wreck a runway was pretty interesting. Hopefully some new info is going to come out of GenCon next week and we will have less speculating on how this new game is going to work.

[General_D.Fox]

Has there been anymore information about the game at all within the past month or so?  Just curious to see how this is going to play out.

[djensen]

I was promised a review copy this month. I’ll send a reminder today.

[Deaths Head 420]

Man I would love a review copy

[djensen]

You’ll need to start a popular gaming website.  :-D

[Guest]

@djensen:

You’ll need to start a popular gaming website.  :-D

David, when do you want the article on the Solomons campaign?

[djensen]

Anytime. The sooner the better. Thanks!

[djensen]

I received a review copy of Guadalcanal, played one game, and posted the first preview article:

http://www.axisandallies.org/node/298

[Imperious Leader]

so the rule book is only 4 pages of rules?

Can we get some info on the new combat system and a basic outline of how the game works?

[frimmel]

@Imperious:

so the rule book is only 4 pages of rules?

Can we get some info on the new combat system and a basic outline of how the game works?

It seems unlikely that the rule book is only 4 pages. It sounds more like djensen is planning 4 articles to me.  :|

I have to second the tell us more as fast as you can though. :-)

Excellent coup for the site. Congrats.  :mrgreen:

[djensen]

No, silly, I’m going to preview only 4 pages or so of the rulebook. If I gave away the entire rules before AH wants them out, then they may not send review materials to me again.

@Imperious:

so the rule book is only 4 pages of rules?

Can we get some info on the new combat system and a basic outline of how the game works?

[Imperious Leader]

The release date is 30 days away. I suspect Avalon Hill will begin with some articles for hopefully not more than a few years after its been released. I have not heard anything from funagames.com since they last published some photos for this.

How may cruisers does the game have each for Japan and USA? And secondly, were you shorted any pieces?  I have a standing prediction of a 2 piece shortage of something….( 3 times the charm)

[djensen]

I didn’t count to see if I was shorted any pieces. The next preview will be of the counters. The control counters are USA on one side and Japan on the other side. There are enough control counters for one for each island.

[Commander Hara]

_If you look at the preview pictures on the game site, you will note that they have the cruisers mixed up.  The Japanese cruiser is really the Portland class USA cruiser.  And the American cruiser is the Japanese cruiser.  Did anyone notice this?  I sure hate to see them send the game to market with this mistake.  Typically the A&A games go through great lengths to preserve accuracy.

Commander Hara._

[Adlertag]

So what ?

[Guerrilla Guy]

generally Eagle, that is called an inconsistency…

GG

[djensen]

Again, my set might be different than the set that will be released on November 16. My set arrived at WotC the second to last week of September, that’s almost 2 months in advance of the release. (I didn’t get it until I got back from vacation).