Guadalcanal: Naval Power
September 2013

With Semper Fi! Guadalcanal we added a new type of unit to the Panzer Grenadier system, the warship. The very first volume had a river gunboat, but Guadalcanal introduced genuine blue-water destroyers and cruisers.

Within the scope of the game these units perform very few of the functions usually assigned to warships, instead serving solely to provide gunnery support to units ashore. The counters we provided are quite generic, as suits the game: it’s not about the Navy, it’s a game about the Marines. We’ve got plenty of other games that glorify the U.S. Navy.

However, we know that gamers like their toys. Here we’ll list the actual ships in each scenario, and we’ll provide a sheet of free downloadable counters you can cut and paste. These are double the size of the counters in the game; use them exactly the same way as in the standard game but center them on the hex they occupy.

“Fire Support Group Mike” appears in several of the early scenarios with one light cruiser and two destroyers. The actual warships involved were the light cruiser San Juan and the destroyers Buchanan and Monssen.

In our scenario book Jungle Fighting, Scenario 32 “To The Poha” includes the Cactus Striking Force of one destroyer. This was Radford; three others were available and could have been called in but the Japanese player is in enough trouble already in this scenario.

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