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Port Arthur (2020)

Players
2
Best: 2
Playing time
50–75 min
Age
12+
7.07
Average rating
257
Ratings
2.08/5
Weight
#7748
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Alternate names:Red Sun Blue Cross
Designer:Yasushi Nakaguro
Artist:Maud Chalmel
Publisher:Nuts! Publishing +6 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 4.2, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity4.2
Theme5.0

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

NauticalWargamePost-NapoleonicArea MovementSimulationDice RollingCritical Hits and FailuresTug of WarTurn Order: Random

Overview

Refight the 1905 Russo-Japanese war at sea in Port Arthur, a vibrant and fast moving two player naval strategy game.

Play as Japan and attempt to amphibiously land your armies in Manchuria and bloody the nose of the Imperial Russian Navy. Or play as Russia, far from home, battling to prevent Japanese landings until reinforcements can arrive.

Game play is quick and tense as you use your naval forces to mount sorties against the enemy and gain dominance of the naval zones that surround Japan. Each turn is rich in tough decision making. Success in combat hinges on how much risk you are prepared to take, based on the variable speed and gunnery skills of the ships involved.

Port Arthur is the second game on the Combat Rations series, following on from the extremely popular 300: Earth & Fire. Like all Combat Rations games it is quick playing, easy to learn, with a small footprint and high quality art and components.

Will history repeat itself, with the Japanese sending the Russian Baltic Fleet to the bottom of the ocean? Or will the Russians avert disaster and win the day? You decide.

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