I don’t know if anyone here knows Japanese, but I’ve noticed a strange thing on the game box.

To the right of “Guadalcanal”, the same thing is written vertically in Japanese.  However, it is written in a strange way.  Normally the island’s name is written in the katakana phonetic script like this: ガダルカナル.  However, on the box the first symbol “ga” has been replaced with the kanji character 餓 which has the same pronunciation, but also has the meaning “hunger”.

This seems like a typo, although it would have actually been easier to get it right. 
Perhaps the Japanese navy had an alternate spelling for the island during the war?

@Amon:

Look on the top left menu and click “game” then “enable edit mode”

No such option exists under the game menu.  Is there another way to do this?

@Amon:

if you want to delete units, then just go to the edit button, which is next to stats, territory…

and then select your units,  a ˝remove selected units˝ button will higlight, press on it, and the units are deleted

I’m not sure that we are using the same program.  Take a look, there is no edit tab (http://triplea.sourceforge.net/screen/battle.png).  Perhaps this feature was removed in newer versions?

How exactly do you use edit?  I have some need for this myself.

Does Japan need to control the Shantung convoy (SZ 37) in order to collect IPCs for from Manchuria?  Perhaps they only need to control EITHER this or the Korea convoy?  I ask because it would seem strange if near the end of the game Japan were blockaded from Korea and Shantung but continued to recieve IPCs from Manchuria.

I suppose I could ask the same question about Siam as well.  Does Japan need the FIC convoy to collect from Siam?

Only attacking subs get the first strike ability. (p.33 of the rulebook)

Heya,

I’ll try my hand at this I think.

First, attacking subs get their “first strike” in every round of combat (unless a Destroyer is defending).  They would be pretty crap if they could only fire once.

Second, don’t forget that transports are not defenseless.  They defend on a roll of one.  It’s only when attacking that transports don’t fire.

Are those IPCs in the form of free units placed on the board at the start of the game or IPC cash to be spent later?  I suppose either way most of that goes into Indian ground troops.

I’m glad to have more Pacific action.

Seconded.