Hypothetical Solomon Islands scenario.
Greetings, fellow gamers. I got the idea for this scenario from reading about the Japanese efforts to withdraw their land forces from the Solomon Islands at the start of 1943, after they had given up on retaking Guadalcanal. I think I was interested in The Battle of Kolombangara as well, although that took place 6 months later. I set the scenario date as 11/06/1942, which is a couple of months too early. Anyway, that's what I was trying to model on a small scale, a Japanese force trying to escort some troop transports (Mutsuki DDs) from point A to point B, while the US forces try to hunt them down. And because it's just me running both sides, I had to scale the forces back a bit from the size of the task forces involved in the actual battles. This was a night scenario - part of my objective was to get used to the extra rules and procedures used during a night battle, plus learn to handle torpedoes. I made a bunch of mistakes and learned a...