BMC Miniatures: Golgotha's Games - Victory at Sea First Edition Mongoose Publishing - Pacific Theatre WW II Naval

Saturday, 4 June 2022

Golgotha's Games - Victory at Sea First Edition Mongoose Publishing - Pacific Theatre WW II Naval - Part I

Herewith. a Victory at Sea First Edition Mongoose Publishing - Pacific Theatre WW II Naval Game.

For additional House Rules see: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/28974/soulmages-house-rules

and for a good review see: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/166792/victory-sea-biased-review

These are really nice rules and quick and easy to get into with relatively large numbers being able to be gamed with fun and ease. I do love the inclusion in the rules of counters and also loads of scenarios especially when also adding the additional Victory at Sea book called "Order of Battle". Seems better than the more recent Warlord Miniatures option... at least for my purposes as I am really not keen on larger scaled model ships and am therefore happy to stick with the counters which has the feel of both a board game and a miniatures game.

My idea here was to test a campaign I want to do which will start with the naval element as the American fleet tries to get to the Island and then end with a miniatures series of games involving a beach assault and taking of a runway etc as the marines move increasingly inland on said Island - see for instance:

https://frictionbmcminiatures.blogspot.com/2022/01/golgothas-wwii-pacific-island-us-vs.html

In the pictures below Red are sunken/lost Japanese, Blue American and then for transport ships Yellow. The Japanese were in the game as in history grossly underpowered but did enact some punishing casualties on the US forces including a successful Kamikaze attack.

Tested the idea of a few small islands before what would be the main island using this as an opportunity to play coastal defenses two 16-inch guns on the island and two small patrol craft - these would skedaddle as the prospect of facing a US battleship seemed just too much to handle.