Operation Watchtower: ASL Historical Study Guadalcanal

What is Operation Watchtower: ASL Historical Study Guadalcanal

(from MMP website:)

August 21, 1942...Colonel Ichiki's men were practically wiped out the night before in wave after wave of banzai attacks across the Tenaru into the well-prepared Marine defenses. Canister, machine-gun fire, and courage had broken Ichiki's back. As dawn rose above the sand bar it was time for the Marines to mop up...

September 13, 1942...The Japanese under Colonel Kawaguchi were pressing hard to take the Lunga Ridge from Edson's Raiders. The Marines bent, but had not yet broken, and were making a last stand on the final defensive obstacle between the Japanese and Henderson Field. Outnumbered, the Raiders had but one advantage - artillery. As shell after shell slammed into the Japanese staging areas, they elect to attack and fight rather than die staging for an assault. With a fateful "BANZAI!" they charge up the hill one more time...

September 27, 1942...The Marines, anxious to take the fight to the Japanese, mount an ambitious plan to surround and destroy the majority of the Japanese forces at the moutn of the Matanikau River. A three-pronged attack, each prong depending on the others succeeding, was devised. When the first attack to take the river crossing points failed, messages to cancel the remainder of the offensive were never received and the remaining elements of the offensive soon went from the hunters to the hunted. Could Marine Corps legend Chesty Puller extract his men from this sticky situation...

Game details

Players

2

Age

+12

Duration

120 min

Difficulty

Expert

Type

Expansion

Year

2003

Mechanics

Hexagon Grid · Modular Board · Simulation

Categories

Expansion for Base-game · Fighting · Wargame

Designer

Nadir Elfarra · Bahadir Erimli · Martin Snow

Publisher

Multi-Man Publishing