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Avalon Hill

	BGG Thread: Guadalcanal 1966 review
		In our games, we found that the Americans won more often than the Japanese, but this might have been because we were all a lot younger then (I was in high school), and less skilled at taking advantage of a successful attack.
		His invasion of Guadalcanal was a defensive measure to prevent the Japanese from operating a nearly completed air base on the island.
		The battle on Guadalcanal was vying for resources with the European Theater (Operation Torch in North Africa, Lend Lease to Russia, and the Operation Bolero build up in England) and with McArthur who was engaged in a battle against the Japanese in New Guinea.
	www.boardgamegeek.com /article/1034803 (2678 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Guadalcanal is a stand-alone game; no other game from the series is required to play any of the 24 scenarios.
		Guadalcanal includes complete maps of these islands, and scenarios to re-create the intense fighting required to eject the Japanese from them.
		Most scenarios in the game hinge on the areas that had to be held to protect the airfield: the Matanikau River line, the Tenaru River, and the line of hills known as Edson’s Ridge.
	www.avalanchepress.com /game_Guadalcanal.php (424 words)

	Brian McCue's Combined Strategic-Tactical Gaming
		Considering the games to be simulations of history, or of possible history, the desire is for a connection between the observable and the important.
		A) Two-level games, to include: pre-packaged two-level games [4], standalone games meant to be mated [5], strategic add-ons to tactical games [6], tactical sub-games that are almost worth playing in their own right [7], and post-facto matings of existing games [8], an approach in which I have specialized.
		Insofar as the game concerns a roving band of warriors, it is a tactical wargame embedded in a larger campaign.
	www.kentaurus.com /strattac.htm (5018 words)

	eBrog - Matanikau
		At first, I thought that this part of the game would be useless in solitaire play, but I was wrong.
		I filled out the forms just to see what it entailed, and, after playing the game, I realized that it was an extremely effective solitaire technique whose most interesting feature was its representation of command decision cycles.
		When you do finally hit something there is a satisfying impact on the game, and there is the tangential effect of developing strong wrists while doing so.
	www.thewargamer.com /brog/matanikau.htm (1586 words)

	GUADALCANAL DIARY + WING AND A PRAYER - DVDs
		Filmed just months after the actual invasion of Guadalcanal late in 1942 and based on Richard Tregaskis' wildly popular (but excessively jingoistic and poorly written) memoir of the same, Guadalcanal Diary is interesting for a glimpse at the Hollywood propaganda machine of WWII if not for any other reason.
		With predictable inflammatory dialogue and plotting and broad burlesque performances by a gaggle of recognizable character actors in familiar stereotypes, Guadalcanal Diary is a rush job notable today for an early appearance by Anthony Quinn, in a role as the token ethnic fellow meant to inspire volunteerism in the barrio.
		Their task is to hold the island and beachhead for the Army to land and establish a presence in what would become the first in a series of leapfrog beachheads projected to one day lead to an amphibious assault on Japan itself.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/guadalcanalwing.htm (589 words)

	Wired News: War Games Come Marching In
		Those games in turn are merely the spearhead of an invasion of war-related games into the holiday market.
		Rise of Nations from Microsoft Game Studios is a current favorite among gamers who love the genre known as real-time strategy.
		EA's Command and Conquer: Generals for the PC is a highly contemporary real-time strategy game that makes little pretense of letting realism get in the way of having a good time.
	www.wired.com /news/games/1,61515-0.html (1151 words)

	Medal of Honor Pacific Assault Review - GamersMark
		Guadalcanal was the location of some of the fiercest fighting throughout the pacific.
		The rest of the game consists of the same type of missions as Guadalcanal with increasing numbers of enemies and slightly different objectives.
		On that note, between major campaigns the game includes actual historical footage of events like Guadalcanal, Pearl Harbor, etc. These movies add a lot to the game; they remind you that although you can just turn it off, or restart, that was not how real life went.
	www.gamersmark.com /reviews/view/496 (1201 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The U.S. Marine 1st Division landed on Guadalcanal at the foot of the Solomon Islands, grabbing its strategic (Henderson) airfield in August 1942, and what ensued was a desperate and bloody battle of attrition for that island, lasting 6 months.
		Guadalcanal finally showed that the previously irresistible Imperial Japanese Army and marines could indeed be stopped and beaten, with adequate command and air and sea support.
		This game is eminently playable, although sometimes derisively called "dice at sea." Solomons campaign: air, land, and sea warfare, Pacific, 1942.
	grognard.com /info1/leyte.txt (3034 words)

	Naval Campaigns: Guadalcanal - from CDAccess.com
		Game includes shore data for the famous Iron Bottom Sound including Savo Island, Guadalcanal, and the surrounding islands.
		The game database includes all of the ships that participated in the historical battles around Guadalcanal including battleships, destroyers, and PT boats.
		A scenario editor is also included with the game; The scenario editor allows new scenarios to be constructed from the provided ship database and existing scenarios to be modified.
	www.cdaccess.com /html/pc/guadalc.htm (350 words)

	eBROG - The Eagle and the Sun by FGA
		And then there's Fresno Gaming Association, which appeared (see this issue's editorial) to go to great lengths to reach the Zenith of Design Nadirs (which is, an oxymoron, but so were FGA's two designers), and even greater lengths to maintain that unenviable position.
		EATS is truly a monster game - monstrous in size, monstrous in cost and monstrous in the unmitigated gall with which it seeks, yet again, to bamboozle a public teetering on the brink of formal outrage.
		This is a game on a massive scale, and if you buy it, you're been taken on about the same scale.
	www.thewargamer.com /brog/eagle_and_the_sun.htm (1894 words)

	Chapter 4 - Designing Manual Games - Designing a Game Step by Step (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Simply put, the units will start the game in one of two ways: either they will be placed on a specific hex at the beginning of the game or they will enter the game map from a specific side (or even hex) where the originally entered the area.
		If their game components (size of the map, number of playing pieces) are not adequate to the level of detail they have in mind, they're going to have big problems and the game is not going to work.
		In a case such as this you might overlook the fact that games are very susceptible to the smallest problem in the rules or the game system becoming a critical impediment to the game's working.
	www.hyw.com /Books/WargamesHandbook/4-1-step.htm (7054 words)

	A Guadalcanal Chronology & Order of Battle
		Thus, although many think of Guadalcanal in terms of the land battles, there were more naval battles fought off the island in six months than the British Royal Navy fought in all of World War I. There is nothing else quite like them in even the rest of World War II.
		In popular culture, the naval war off Guadalcanal gets less attention than the land war, even though the intensity of naval fighting was extraordinary and the fate of the land campaign depended absolutely on its outcome.
		Madej does not give details of unit organization for Japanese forces on Guadalcanal, and, indeed, such details may not even be known, considering the attrition suffered in their delivery and the chaotic conditions that prevailed in the command on site.
	www.friesian.com /history/guadal.htm (3871 words)

	Brian McCue's Play-By-Photo Guadalcanal Rules
		In terms of providing a fun game, I'll do my best to keep things moving along as quickly as possible and to run the game fairly and honestly (which is not to say that I won't make the occasional mistake).
		The submarine rules in the game are a forced fit to the original unrefereed rules.
		Such a game summary will especially be valuable in this game, where individual players have incomplete knowledge of the events taking place (even events in which they are participants).
	www.kentaurus.com /gcanal.htm (1548 words)

	AAR of struggle for Guadacanal
		There is not room here to track every ship, but because we had such a great time, and the game featured so many historically-possible situations, I will present a summary of the game, as well as after thoughts, and also set the stage for part II which continues at the June meeting.
		This was to be in the game, as in history, critical as the first detection of the Japanese was made by the Fletcher-class DD O'Bannon, but the signal reporting this to the CinC was delayed and confused.
		Leaving the DD action astern, they boldly turned west towards Guadalcanal, and at such short ranges, their massed 6" and 8" guns were able to penetrate the belt armor of the two BBs, who could only respond with secondary fire as the gun crews worked furiously to load AP ammo.
	www.ctgameclub.org /gcanal.htm (1532 words)

	Task Force 1942 for DOS - MobyGames
		This game deals with the desperate battles fought in the Solomon Islands, specifically in and around the island of Guadalcanal, in which the Allies tried to stop the Japanese from their drive to Australia.
		Your main objective is to keep the marines on Guadalcanal supplied and bring reinforcements to them, to shell the enemy base, and to stop the enemy from bringing supplies and reinforcements to their troops.
		The game has a strategic mode in which you can order your fleets around and monitor the overall situation, and a tactical mode in which two fleets meet and you can actually command the battle in real-time and "jump into" any ship and fire the guns or torpedos.
	www.mobygames.com /game/task-force-1942 (418 words)

	News: Guadalcanal released - GamersHell.com
		HPS Simulations and John Tiller today announced the release of Naval Campaigns 3: Guadalcanal, a real-time tactical battle simulation "which models the individual ships and capabilities and includes the landmasses of the islands which provide for maneuver challenges".
		The third installment of the Naval Campaigns series is set during the 1942-43 campaign for the southern Solomon Island of Guadalcanal.
		Guadalcanal is a tactical battle simulation which models the individual ships and capabilities and includes the landmasses of the islands which provide for maneuver challenges.
	www.gamershell.com /news/7198.html (380 words)

	Close Combat IV
		But the best thing about the game system is that this will be the first Close Combat game to seriously attempt to meld the strategic and tactical aspects of the campaign.
		In the earlier games, the individual scenarios played out on the background of the larger campaign, but you never got the feeling that the results of your games had any effect on the big picture.
		There is, however, one problem with the game’s look: the Battle of the Bulge took place during winter, and the game’s battlefields are covered with snow.
	www.gamesfirst.com /previews/CCIV/cciv.htm (745 words)

	GMT GAMES: Operational Series: Operation Shoestring
		On the morning of August 7, 1942, the U.S. Marines landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal, marking the first American offensive against Japan in the Pacific in World War II.
		Guadalcanal was the operation that started the Allies on the road to Tokyo.
		Operation Shoestring is a company-level game focusing on that dramatic first conflict.
	www.gmtgames.com /opos/gmtopos0.htm (241 words)

	Henderson Field
		Henderson Field is a two-player game recreating the epic struggle for Guadalcanal Island.
		The game simulates the fighting during the decisive months of September through November 1942.
		Meticulously researched and well developed, the game features the most accurate Japanese order of battle to appear in a Guadalcanal game.
	www.decisiongames.com /html/henderson_field.html (120 words)

	[No title]
		Since you have obviously played both versions of the game, perhaps you could comment on the effects the changes have on the flow of play, and both sides' strategy and tactics.
		Although I can understand how bad the game may look to you given how proud you are of the error-freeness of the old design, I'm not aware now of any problems fundamental enough to impede play.
		I'd call contradictory rules over whether artillery may or may not be allocated to defense fairly fundamental in a game where artillery is represented by a point system- especially in a game with an extremely low counter density.
	grognard.com /errata/fbdiff.txt (3711 words)

	BoB
		While the strategic game isn’t particularly deep, it is fun, and does take account of such important Bulge phenomena like supply depots and the Operation Greif commandos.
		The only really noticeable change to game’s tactical side is the addition of air attacks and off-board arty, something fans have been begging for since the first Close Combat.
		The game’s sound is exceptionally good—as in the previous games in the series, your units will shout out warnings if they take an objective or are taking too much fire, and the weapons effects are first-rate throughout.
	www.gamesfirst.com /reviews/rick/BoB/CCBoB.htm (1287 words)

	Review: Iron Bottom Sound II (board wargame)
		The detail is not oppressive as in some tactical naval games where every minute detail is brought into play into the commanding, moving, sighting and firing of the ships.
		One area in which the game falls short is simulating the confusion of night combat.
		Of course, it is difficult to simulate such things and the players usually prefer their games to be parade grounds of precision instead of chessboards of chance.
	www.magweb.com /sample/sbrog/sbr28ibs.htm (1228 words)

	Medal of Honor: Rising Sun for Xbox - MobyGames
		The game also makes efforts to educate players in WWII history and conditions, with period stock footage and images, and unlockable interviews with Pacific veterans.
		There are 26 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.
		There are no game credits on file for this release of the game.
	www.mobygames.com /game/xbox/medal-of-honor-rising-sun (249 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Included are a campaign game (covering all the action from 7 August to 31 December 1942) and 4 mini games (featuring the major battles in the Solomons).
		Once the game is saved you will be able to restart it from the point at which you left off.
		Save game phase 3.4 Nighttime (PM) Sequence The PM sequence is the same as the AM sequence except steps E and F are deleted.
	www.textfiles.com /apple/DOCUMENTATION/guadalca.txt (6914 words)

	Guadalcanal (Smithsonian Edition)
		The game is superior with a neutral referee for true double blind play.
		Not all games have enough ratings or sufficiently strong correlations to produce recommendations.
		Games I've traded here on the Geek or sold on Ebay.
	www.boardgamegeek.com /game/1375 (218 words)

	Guadalcanal Diary (1943) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The high point of Guadalcanal rose up to about 8000 feet; covered with low cloud and forest.
		This film then, based on the book of the same name, and written by the war correspondent, Richard Tregaskis is, in my opinion, a better movie than, "The Sands of Iwo Jima", when it comes to paying tribute to the war record of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War Two.
		Guadalcanal is not a name, but an emotion.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0035957 (979 words)

	Medal of Honor - Rising Sun at Psxa2z.com!
		Featuring real-life historical battles like Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal, over 20 authentic WWII weapons, highly intelligent enemies, and a heroic cast of characters that fight on your side from level to level, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun delivers the standard-setting experience for all action games.
		When i bought this game i thought it was gonna be like frontline and to say the truth it is the gameplay's similar but the graphics are much better and the online mode is absolutely suberb you could play for hours on there, it's like unreal tournament medal of honor style.
		In an 8 player game, one of the players (and his PS2) is the Host or Server, and all others are Clients.
	www.psxa2z.com /ps2/PS0515.php (976 words)

	3D Gamers :: Game Listing :: Pacific Fighters Info
		In places like Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, allied fighters and bombers went head-to-head against the air power of the Japanese empire.
		In addition, for the first time in the 1C: Maddox game series, players will have the option to take-off and land on aircraft carriers during combat.
		By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
	www.3dgamers.com /games/pacificfighters (212 words)

	GamersHell.com - gh3d.com:. PC, PS2, PS3, XBox, XBox 360, Gamecube, Wii / Revolution, PSP, NDS. News, Reviews, Cheats ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is only for people who wish to host their own games on dedicated machines and is not a required download.
		The game will also be available for the PlayStation 3 on February 20th in North America and in Europe simultaneously with the system’s launch in March 2007.
		Microsoft has released a new trailer from Fuzion Frenzy 2, a puzzle game for Xbox 360 developed by Hudson and due to be launched in the US on January 30, 2007.
	www.gamershell.com /all/guadalcanal (2346 words)

	Kevin Lockitt's Black Bag Operations
		You might also notice that the script commands all seem to start with the same keywords like "game" or "admin".
		There are a quite a few of these command groups in the BF1942 scripting system but these two are the ones you need to know about as a server admin.
		Enables server game-event logging which causes a detailed XML log of all game events to be written in the server's log folder.
	www.blackbagops.com /bf1942/cfgguide.shtml (953 words)

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