Guadalcanal FAQ

You should add sea planes to the game without using figs and tacs. But then as the war went on the normal planes can find the ships. For tac bombers if sea planes and or ( fig, tacs ) find ships and or subs, they get a first strike shot for first round only. Attacker picks the target.
So tacs FS hit surface subs @3 and ships @3. If the tac misses the sub, then it can dive now. If tac misses and sub dives then any destroyer in same sea zone gets a depth charge drop @2. On 2nd round or later all tacs attack and defend @2 since they dropped there payload.

I’ve been using this tac, sub and DD thing for years.

Was wondering if anyone’s created a file for the Guadalcanal game boards. Since it’s out of print I have no qualms over printing my own vs. the nearly $150+ I’ve seen private sellers listing this game at. Thanks all!

Re: Map for Guadalcanal?

Hiya Forum,

Here is a video I have created on youtube of the set up of AnA Guadalcanal. I hope it come to some help for you to enjoy the game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7cDDmFj4o

BH

As Frimmel said, you do the Attack Air Units step for each zone in which air units are eligible to be attacked.  Then you do the Attack Sea Units step in each sea zone in which sea units are eligible to be attacked.  Ditto with land units.  Each eligible zone does one combat round in each step.  At that point combat is over, and you move on the the next phase.  You don’t repeat the combat cycle again - you only go through it once on each turn.  A turn can end with opposing forces still occupying the same zone.

As long as opposing forces continue to occupy the zone, the battle will continue on subsequent turns, one round per turn.  Unlike D-Day, forces are not locked in combat.  They can leave the zone any time they are eligible to move.

Ok thats what I was starting to think.  Thanks.

I think me and my friend technically played ‘to the death’.

I just bought Guadalcanal about a week ago (and bought AAP40 yesterday :-D), and played my first full game with my friend on Friday night. We played from about 7.30-2.00, it was pretty awesome.

Anyway, I played Japan and he the US, and from the first turn he took Guadalcanal, and from there proceeded to mass a sizable navy which gave me a lot of trouble, as well as a decent air force. It was hard going for me, though I had a strong presence on Bougainville and Choiseul. Most of my efforts went into maintaining my navy (which was massed in zones B and F), and AA guns (which I sent to Bougainville and Choiseul), to combat his navy and planes.

Towards the end there was a decisive battle, in which I almost overpowered his navy (this, I think, would have almost led me to victory then and there - he had almost no units behind about zone G), but alas, he rebounded and from there I was a goner.

In a fit of desperation I started making rules such as ‘last stand’ (where Japanese transports get 10 attack each - it was late at night), but he still defeated me with something like 3 battleships and a menagerie of other ships.

I made him attack my base directly, and he simply blew my 15 or so infantry units right out of there with his battleships, and that was that.

It was a lot of fun though, and my friend (who usually plays Xbox 360 all day) seemed to enjoy himself, and is keen to play AAP40.

Yes I agree airpower was dominant in the pacific but in this campaign the night actions should be modeled as there were so many such engagements in the slot.

I like the idea of some sort of night rules (long lance, radar etc); I see there is an optional rule for the Japanese to use a nightfighting token but I don’t think this is what Commander Hara had in mind.

Is there a place where these and other suggested “house” rules are being accumulated for A&AG?

Frimmel is correct. Krieghund answered a similar question for me recently. It is 4 threads below this.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=14187.0