BruceAZ
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For those of you that enjoy a good pacific battle or love infantry scenarios, I have the campaign for you!
I will release my "Guadalcanal 1942" campaign in a week or so. We have finally finished inputting and evaluating all the suggestions and recommendations many of you have emailed to me over the last two months. I took all suggestions and forwarded them on to the testers for consideration. Many of your ideas we tried to incorporate into the basic game play.
I want to give credit to the testers that took their personal time to evaluate what I had designed or suggestions from the forum: Steve Averey, Ed Irani, and Lu Pham. Thank you for all your suggestions and especially the time commitment.
A special “Thank You” goes to Will Bill for his encouraging words and willingness to answer my dumb questions. Being a former Marine and a “real” Matrix Veteran, your input and patience was really appreciated.
Here are the highlights of this 9 battle campaign.:
You will start your adventure as a battalion commander on Red Beach, 7 August, 1942. Your command will be attached to the 5th Marines initially and various Army and Marine units throughout the campaign. This campaign is not an exact historical recreation. I have altered for wargame play to allow varying outcomes. You will play many of the same key Guadalcanal battles but some events or places have been altered to allow advance play or improve strategy. It is significant for each player to read all introductory notes before each battle as there are clues and tips that will help you in your fight. This is a game of pure infantry warfare where strategy, capable forward observers, mobile reserves and a strong defensive line will make the difference between success and failure. Fast, light infantry with tough combat engineers in support are your key elements to be successful. The maps are very authentic except for two where we had to make some minor changes.
You will start with the initial landing on Red Beach and advance inland. Japanese bombers out of Rabaul will harass your forces day and night. After achieving your initial objectives, you are ordered to seize the airstrip and surrounding heights. You must be careful at all times as a Japanese counterattack is present in nearly every scenario. BANZAI! You dig in and defend Henderson Airfield including Lunga Ridge (Bloody Ridge) overlooking the airfield from the southwest.
You attack toward the Matanikau River but are recalled to defend the airfield perimeter once again and bear the full weight of the vaunted 2nd Sendai Division. After a successful counterattack, you move into a unique “patrolling” scenario and then assault the remnants of the 2nd Division at Koli Point.
This action leads you to the assault on the heavily defended Japanese fortifications known as the “GIFU.” This is the toughest battle faced by your Marines. Caves and fortifications abound. Can your mobile landing force envelop the line and force the issue? The Code of Bushido is very alive in this battle.
Your final assault is against the base camp at Cape Esperance. You will fight one tough battle against the “Yano Battalion” made up of Japanese Marine volunteers to fight to the death for the Emperor! Quickly seize the beach objectives and you will prevent the Japanese 17th Army from escaping. Failure to gain the initiative and you will witness the Japanese Navy evacuating the remnants in a last salute of defiance.
A Marine Chaplain picked up a diary of a Japanese Captain that described the ordeal of the 17th Army:
Those that can stand will last 30 days.
Those that can sit up will live three weeks.
Those that cannot sit up will live one week.
Those that urinate lying down will last 3 days.
Those that have stopped speaking will last 2 days.
Those that stopped blinking die tomorrow.
Those that die for the Emperor will live forever!
His platoon, buried in a cave, died to the last man defending a ridge that was defending the approaches to Cape Esperance.
Good Luck!
Bruce
Semper Fi
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"The most important element in war is man. And there are no tougher men than my China Marines." Major Gen. Archer 'Archy' Vandegrift, 1st Marine Division
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