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Ship-to-ship surface action in USN Plan Orange

Once the CAP has been handled, the "strike aircraft" component of the airstrike moves on to attack the ships themselves

Closeup of counters showing high attention to detail - US battleship 'Tennessee' and US 'T4M' biplane bomber.

End of Turn 18 WPO Scenario 5. Both sides retreated and the game ended. Very rare map, warplan very orange!

Nov 2010 Op Scenario 5 (mod)
IJN Fleet 1 moved from K21 through USN Fleet 2. Contact! double blind game

Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Orange (1998)

Players

2–4

Best: 2

Playing time

120–120 min

Age

12+

6.81

Average rating

124

Ratings

2.38/5

Weight

#13222

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Michael Bennighof

Publisher:Avalanche Press Ltd. +1 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck5.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity4.8

Theme5.0

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Overview

The Great War at Sea series hypothetical situation of possible naval action between US and Japan in the 1930s. Game is based on actual US navy plans. Players plot their task forces moves on the strategic map and when contact is made combat is fought on the tactical map.

Also published in Separate Volume #11 of Command Magazine Japan.

The early boxes included a separate 4 pages insert trying to link the operational and tactical levels of the game that was tittled "Great War at Sea System Advanced Tactical Rules".

Avalanche Press in 2008 released a comb bound book called Great War at Sea: South China Sea which used the map from War Plan Orange.