World at War #101 - The Solomons Campaign, 1942-43

From Decision Games:

The Magazine:

The Solomons Campaign, 1942–43 While the Battle of Midway was a key action in the Pacific War, Guadalcanal and the subsequent fighting across the rest of the Solomon Islands was the true turning point in the war against Japan.

Articles

The Mediterranean Air War, 1943–44 Airpower was a vital part of both Allied and Axis strategy in World War II’s Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO). The largest campaign in the MTO would be Sicily and the Italian mainland, and it would be the forge in which new Allied air doctrines were built.

The Soviet East Pomeranian Offensive, February–March 1945 The primary objective of the Soviet Pomerania offensive by Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky’s Second Byelorussian Front was to eliminate the risk of a German counteroffensive into the flank of First Byelorussian Front’s advance on Berlin. It succeeded beyond all expectations. Here is our analysis.

The Sanjak Muslim Militia, 1941–45 Among the countries allied with or occupied by Germany during the war, none produced a greater variety of hodgepodge military and paramilitary formations than Yugoslavia. Usually organized based on some ethnic differentiation, more often than not they had a German commander and cadre. One of the most obscure of the irregular units formed by the Germans was the Muslim Militia of the Sanjak. Which lay on the border between Montenegro and Serbia.

The Game:

Solomons Campaign, 1942–43, is a solitaire, operational-level war game of the struggle for control of the Solomon Islands during World War II. Victory is attained by accomplishing campaign milestones ahead of what was done historically, thereby opening the way for an earlier isolation of the Japanese base at Rabaul. The player commands the US forces, and moves and engages the Japanese forces according to the game system.

The player moves and engages with the Japanese forces according to instructions provided by the rules. The map uses an area grid map system; ground units represent divisions, regiments or battalions. Aircraft units represent air groups or wings (two to eight squadrons) and are identified by the primary type of aircraft in those units. Naval units represent individual fleet aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and divisions of two light or escort carriers and squadrons of destroyers with various numbers of other ship types.

Each grid box on the map is 50 miles from side to side. Each turn represents one month.

22 x 34 inch map sheet and counter sheet of 228 9/16 inch counters.