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FLAT TOP Tournament – Chiba Club vs YSGA – Japan – May 2013
MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, this is WASP, WASP, WASP. MAYDAY, WASP.
Flat Top at Friendly Fire
Hard times for the US forces in the East Solomon islands
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: USS Enterprise, USS Hornet and USS South Dakota have been located at hex MM20 by a scouting Zero.
CHECK THIS OUT!!!  Now they are naming roads after our favorite game!
Box front.
Flat Top in Double Blind action (GameMaster Board)
Whiteboard used for plotting movement, at Rvbicon Club L'Hospitalet. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Screen shot from the Santa Cruz scenario of Fighting Flattops, a web enabled, turn-based strategy "video" game based on Flat Top.

Flat Top (1977)

Players
2
Best: 2+
Playing time
360–360 min
Age
12+
7.36
Average rating
960
Ratings
4.23/5
Weight
#3305
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:S. Craig Taylor
Artist:Rodger B. MacGowan
Publisher:The Avalon Hill Game Co +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 9, Interaction 5, Complexity 8.5, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck9.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity8.5
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

Flat Top is a board wargame of high complexity that covers the battles of the Solomon Seas between the United States and Japan in 1942. It is very well researched and covers all aspects of naval and air combat as it existed in 1942. The system depicts weather, air searches, air combat, surface combat, carrier operations, submarines, air bases, supplies, and much more. The game requires intense planning and searching since movement is covert and the map is huge.

The units are individual ships and submarines with each air point representing three aircraft. Hexes are twenty miles, and each turn represents one hour.

The game includes thirteen hundred counters, 4 maps to create a 44" x 28" map of the South Pacific, four Allied/Japanese operations cards, three player aid cards and two log sheets.

First edition Battle Line has two counter card sheets containing 800 counters.

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