Reply To: Playtesting Pacific

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I agree Tarawa would be a great game, but Tarawa was an extremely tiny island with some very specific terrain features.  The Buddhist statue, vegetation, no airfield, and winding road reminds me more of Okinawa.  For Tarawa we’d want that bloody sea wall, too, and perhaps some Amtracks for the Marines (at least first wave).  Also, to my knowledge the Japanese defenders on Tarawa were Special Naval Landing Force, not Army (a force of Korean laborers was there as well).