This is a project that has moved forward in fits and starts of the course of a few years… It started when I saw the 1941 marines were newly added to the…
Tag: Pacific
FOW – US Navy F4F Wildcats.
I finished off my winter aircraft and was close to finishing the project. However, when going through my extra stuff to figure out what I was going to sell off, I realized…
FOW – US Army and Marine Pacific Command Cards.
The new shiny Command Card set covers the US Army and Marines in the Pacific. I went over the Unit Cards recently, so I needed to finish with these. This set follows…
FOW – US Army and Marines Pacific Unit Cards.
The Fames of War Pacific War releases are in full swing. We just had some of the US kits and US Unit Cards released a week ago. I have plenty of US…
FOW – Axis and Allies F4F Wildcat Air Support.
I decided to grab another set of planes that did not need much work, the early war scheme F4F Wildcat. I thought these would be pretty easy, as they did not have…
FOW – Operations at Deniki, August 1941 (Kokoda Track Campaign)
For our third game of the Kokoda Track Campaign, we created our own scenario. Background: After the Japanese captured the airstrip at Kokoda Station on 29 July (see our previous report), the…
FOW – Kokoda Station, July 1941
We continued our Kokoda Track campaign by playing the second scenario from the Fire and Fury WW2 web site. After the earlier clashes against the Japanese 1/144th Battalion at Gorare and Oivi,…
FOW – Kokoda Track, Action at Gorari
For a change of scenery, we decided to run a some games set in the Pacific. Fortunately, the Fire and Fury WW2 website provides several scenarios for action along the Kokoda Track…
VaS – Pacific Clash, Sometime in 1942
It was time for WWII and we opted to play another VaS scenario before we switched to the next genre for a while. We did not have the ships for any of…
VaS – Battle of Cape Esperance, October 1942
On the night of 11 October, the Japanese dispatched an extensive supply and reinforcement convoy to their ground forces engaged on Guadalcanal. At the same time, but in a separate operation, three Japanese heavy…