Board Game

Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay

Released 2010 / 2-2 players / 30-30 min / Ages 0+

Also known as 函館湾海戦

Designer: Donald Booth

Artist: Sawshun Yamagushi

Publisher: Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社)

Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay cover art

Description

Issue game of Wargame Japanese History #6.

This is small sized naval battle wargame based on Boshin war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Miyako_Bay
Players control one to five ships belong Tokugawa shogunate navy or newly formed Imperial Japanese Navy.

Main actions in game resolve by chit-pull order. Each side has four action chits for movement, fire starboard, fire port and rally. And initiative players can hold some randomly selected chits to use any timing.

Victory decide by various scenario special rule.

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