Two Hour Wargames War Against Japan

Having read a few reviews of the Two Hour Wargames variant for Nuts!, War Against Japan (WAJ), I finally found a copy, quite by chance at a local gaming shop.  Having read them thru a couple of times and watched the HBO mini-series “The Pacific”, I am definitely inspired.

The WAJ variant can be played in some interesting ways; head to head or 1 or more players on the same (Allies, to include USMC) side against the game system AI Japanese.  The author explains his perspective as primarily due to the way in which (human) players will game the Japanese; chiefly, in a very Non-Japanese or unrealistic fashion.  The book includes all the modifications to the original 2^nd Edition of Nuts!, as well as 6 canned scenarios or tactical situations and finally a campaign game that uses the scenarios to resolve the actual table top battles in a sequence of linked games.  Overall, the book looks like it will produce fun games and the game system run Japanese has great potential for realistic table top battles, at least from the USMC perspective, and maybe the Japanese too I guess. 

 

I recently sold a hardly used batch of minis that had been laying around doing nothing except taking up space.  So, what to do with all my new wealth?  Recycle the money and buy new stuff.