As a big naval wargamer, I’m happy to throw my support to the cause and help spread the word.
First up, here are links to more announcements about the day:
While I don’t think I’ll be able to organize a game with friends, I’m sure I can get in some solo gaming to celebrate the day. Although, I might lobby for September 27 (Alfred Thayer Mahan's birthday) as an alternative date for the celebration.
Summer Solo Campaign Progress
I have started my Summer Solo Tokyo Express campaign. I started out with playing the Cape Esperance scenario to familiarize myself with rules and flow of the game. Then I jumped into the Tokyo Express campaign from The General Vol 28, No 5. Starting the campaign I rolled for the number August 1942 battles and came up with 1.
The scenario generation roll gave the standard randomly generated scenario and my force was 5 destroyers and 4 cruisers (I picked 3 heavy cruisers and 1 light cruiser) and I had early SG type radar (which really helped out). I set up my forces and set out to find the Japanese near Savo Island. If you have played Tokyo Express, you know that there are a lot of random elements in the game, which makes it really hard to put together a good solid plan. My basic idea was to roam around Iron Bottom Sound between Savo Island and Guadalcanal, trying find the Japanese.
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| Surprising a couple IJN destroyers east of Savo Island |
I was lucky in that a lot of the Japanese Force draws turned out to be nothing. But mid-game I got the drop a pair of Japanese destroyers before they saw me (the chit draw was US Detection followed by Combat) and I was able to sink one and cripple the other before they had a chance to return fire.
Later in the game, some more Japanese destroyers showed up and torpedoed a couple of my destroyers. But my gunfire turned out to be decisive and forced the Japanese to retire. August ended looking pretty good with three Japanese destroyers sunk for the loss of one US destroyer sunk and two damaged.
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