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Not particularly good, though some effort has been made to make sense of the battle.
In the first place, there are numerous typos. Which are somewhat forgivable given that English is apparently not the author's first language. However, the book is promoted as if it contains scenarios and information for fighting the battle, or perhaps fighting a campaign based upon the Betio portion of the Tarawa Campaign. The problem is that none of this actually appears in any useful capacity.
There is one generic scenario, not specific to Tarawa. There are no Orders of Battle. Army lists use the "Flames of War" format, right down to the rating of units per morale as "Trained/Veteran/Conscript," or "Confident/Reluctant/Elite." The units given aren't specific to Tarawa, either, though the authors do name units that were on Betio or Maki and used similar organizations. Most of the Japanese armored vehicles discussed (the Ka-Mi, the So-Ki, the Type 89) have no...
Rating: [1 of 5 Stars!] |
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The 16 page-pdf looks professional, clean, and engaging even though it is in black-and-white. There are plenty of clear tables, and there is enough stylish indulgences to break up the writing. I particularly like the triple bars on the top and bottom of each page, interrupted only by the page number at the bottom and three stars at the top. There is some impressive black-and-white imagery of space battles within, but there is also a comical image of two astronauts making hull repairs on page 10 that just doesn’t work for me; I like my games serious (minus the occasional WAAAGH), and that image inserts a little too much slapstick into my readthrough.
Content-wise, the rules are well thought out, though rigidly explained. It took me a couple rereads to understand the Modifier Points, and I didn’t fully understand their insistence that Battleships would be represented by BB, Cruisers by CC, and Destroyers by DD. Also, it is only near the end of the document that they explain that there...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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