Bucha, Ukraine - 27 Feb 2022 - 15mm
Bloody Pacific: Marines on Saipan – 80th Anniversary Wargame (Part 2)
We’re back to finish up our wargame commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Marine landing on Saipan (15 June 1944).
We started this game last week, recreating part of 2nd Bn/ 6th Marines’ assault on Red One beach on Saipan, part of Operation Forager in the Mariana Islands. So far, the Leathernecks have taken one hell of a pounding getting ashore, with almost 50% losses among their LVT-2 Amptracks and infantry platoons.
But now the (surviving) Marines are ashore, and the Japanese are about to learn to their cost just how well-equipped Marine assault units can actually be. Can the Marines overcome the bloodbath at the game’s outset and secure a foothold on this critical objective?
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