Bolt Action: Campaign - Marianas & Palau Islands
This new campaign supplement for Bolt Action allows players to recreate the historic island-hopping battles between US and Imperial Japanese forces in the Pacific theatre that took place in 1944. Even whilst the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy; US forces were beginning to sweep across the Pacific in their own Blitzkrieg; fighting embittered and ferocious battles across tiny strips of land against tenacious Japanese defenders.
The battles described are concerned with the campaigns of the Mariana and Palau Islands specifically and a number of battles are described in great detail; including those of Saipan; Guam; Peleliu and Anguar. The fighting during these campaigns was controversial and bloody; rivalling the battle of Stalingrad for sheer inhumanity in some instances. Though there were many other battles within these campaigns; their number makes them impossible to describe them all in full within a single volume. The book gives players enough tools to recreate any other battles themselves; should they wish.
A wealth of scenarios are included to represent some of the most important battles and are presented in such a way to form an extended campaign. You’ll find new units for the Japanese and United States (both the US Army and Marines); and all the special rules you need to play; including; crucially; those for amphibious assaults; dug in defenders and tropical hazards amongst many others.