3.8

The Eagle and the Sun (1991)

Rank: 22948
2 Players
120-84000 Min
Age: 12+
Complexity: 4.80/5

User Summary

Sub-titled "The War in the Pacific 1932-1948, this is a a World War II Pacific Theater wargame that allows you to recreate various campaigns. The game has been described by some as a remake of S.P.I.'s War in the Pacific: The Campaign Against Imperial Japan, 1941-45.

The contents include:
  • '7'-22" by 34" multi-colors Game Mapsheets
  • 2,580 1/2" by 1/2" & 672 1/2" by 3/4" cardboard game counters
  • '2'-Rules, Scenarios, & Tables Booklets- (of 64 pages)
Some of the Scenarios include:
  • '1932'-Mini Campaign-Attack by the I.J.N. on the Panama Canal with an 'Arms Race' as an *Option*-(and including the 'cancelled' vessels for both sides);
  • 'Training' Scenarios:
    • the Relief of Wake Island
    • Battle of the Gilbert Isles;
  • Midway;
  • Burma;
  • Philippines Sea;
  • "Fantasy Sci-Fi" game on "The Final Countdown"-(the Movie where a Modern Nuclear Carrier is "sent back in time to just before Dec. 7th, 1941");
  • entire Pacific Campaign.

The turns represent a Week's time, there is a method for determining "Initiative" for one side or the other, and many detailed minutiae for those 'buffs' staunch enough to make their way through this.

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