Kawaguchi's Gamble: Edson's Ridge Used Each complete Player Turn abstractly

Each complete Player Turn abstractly represents several seconds of real time

2 metal command miniatures (officer and trumpeter)

rigging and flag sheets for all your ships and all the ship cards

and a full four-day campaign game spanning 42 game turns beginning with the arrival of the British army on the field on the morning of October 28 and culminating at 5:00 pm on October 31

Kawaguchi's Gamble: Edson's Ridge Used Each complete Player Turn abstractlyKawaguchi's Gamble: Edson's Ridge covers the area of Edson's Ridge and the surrounding jungle just south of Henderson Airfield on the island of Guadalcanal during September 1942. The Japanese, as part of a complicated multi pronged attack, sent three battalions, nearly 3000 men, charging towards the ridge protecting the airfield. Almost 800 Paramarines and Raiders defended the ridge with amazing courage and, despite suffering horrible casualties, kept