Guadalcanal first impressions

Early Impression after my first two games.

The battlebox is loud and the twelfth die doesn’t always settle into the neck.

Air units don’t live long.

Subs are cool if they sink things otherwise you are better off with a destroyer for 1 more IMO. Although if your opponent is still in Revised thinking they might send aircraft after them when the planes would be better off somewhere else. :-)

The game shouldn’t be long enough to worry about getting some sort of shuck-shuck going from your base card to the front. It is two turns from the slot (szH) or (SZI) back to base and 2 points for a supply to deploy to board or three turns back to board without the supply and unless the fight is at Guadalcanal or Malaita that is too slow. It is 2 points for a new TRN. If you want to get land units from the base to the front you will need more TRNs or DST along with the additional land units.

@frimmel:

The battlebox is loud and the twelfth die doesn’t always settle into the neck.

You could always try my battle strip.

@Krieghund:

@frimmel:

The battlebox is loud and the twelfth die doesn’t always settle into the neck.

You could always try my battle strip.

I caught that the other day. It is pretty slick. Did you make up the dice order from Chessex special or was it a standard thing they do?

It was a custom order.  I don’t remember the exact cost, since I ordered some other stuff with them, but I think it was around $3 per set of twelve plus shipping.

Could you post the file you used to print the strip?  :-)

The forum allows several file types to be attached to a post. Size limit is 256 KB.

Pretty Please.  :-)

I’m not quite ready to punt on the battlebox but I did miss handling dice and I didn’t get to use my cool- Yoper Special Dice Tower.

I too have had problems with the battlebox.  I find frequently the 11th-12th dice don’t always settle properly.  Also on a couple of occassions when shaking the box the sleeve has opened and a few of the dice flew out knocking units around the board.

I like the “battle strip” idea…I may give that or something similar a try.  Can the same results (probability) be achieved with fewer dice (i.e six)?

Great info being shared in these forums; Thanks.

@frimmel:

Could you post the file you used to print the strip?  :-)

I’ll probably post it on BGG this weekend, along with instructions.

@Krieghund:

@frimmel:

Could you post the file you used to print the strip?  :-)

I’ll probably post it on BGG this weekend, along with instructions.

Here it is: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/29393

@Krieghund:

@Krieghund:

@frimmel:

Could you post the file you used to print the strip?  :-)

I’ll probably post it on BGG this weekend, along with instructions.

Here it is: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/29393

Thanks.  :-)