Wargaming Wednesday

This week in 1944 saw the Allies conduct a two day bombing campaign against the Japanese held island of Truk. The Japanese had held the island as part of an agreement inked in 1919. During World War II Truk held a status as a kind of boogie man of Pacific. The Allies knew it was a major supply base, but it was believed to be heavily defended. By 1944, however, the Allies had made sufficient gains in production to amass a number of fast carriers for a strike on Truk. Two days of bombing succeeded in sinking 200,000 tons of Japanese shipping around the island and helped set the stage for a ground invasion.

Games To Set The Mood

Boardgames

Victory in the Pacific

Flat Top

PC Games

There are a number of great games that cover the PTO, but two immediately spring to mind, each a different side of the same coin.

War Plan Pacific is a nifty little game of war in the PTO which can easily be fought from start to finish in a single evening.

War in the Pacific, on the other hand, is a monster game with granularity allowing players to fight the war as slowly as one day at a time. Individual ships and aircraft are represented, and ground troops go down to the battalion level. The game mechanics aren’t that bad; it’s just that there’s so much of it to do. For the lover of micromanagement, this is your game.




By: GladiusMagnus