No land units for either side on island and ships cannot exert their attackpower

You’re welcome.

We did have this question before and it has the info about knocking out airfields.

Thanx, was a little fuzzy in the rules on that one, but clear as a bell now :-D

As long as there are units from both sides there is combat in the appropriate phase or phases.

Check pages 4 and 5 of the rulebook.

http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/GuadalcanalRules.pdf

Thanks Krieg.

I certainly agree on the big gambles part. One of the fun things about this game is you can sort of just PLAY. That big series of gambles sort of takes the ‘pressure’ off. Just go for it.

I figure any time I can roll more dice than the other guy with a good number of escorts is as good as it gets.

Equal his planes with your fighters and you’re about as ahead as you can hope.

I like the fact that both units can be on an island and not have to keep battling until someone owns it.

It tooks days to take Iwo Jima.

Me too.  We were using one supply token for every ship sent and only sending them during the resupply phase.  We were spending huge amounts of money getting ships onto the board.  No wonder our game was dragging on way past turn five.