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Campaign: Marianas & Palau Islands
This new campaign supplement for Bolt Action allows players to recreate the historic island-hopping battles between U.S. and Imperial Japanese forces in the Pacific theater that took place in 1944. Even whilst the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, U.S. forces were beginning to sweep across the Pacific in their own Blitzkrieg, fighting embittered and ferocious battles across tiny strips of land against tenacious Japanese defenders.
The battles described are concerned with the campaigns of the Mariana and Palau Islands specifically, and a number of battles are described in great detail, including those of Saipan, Guam, Peleliu and Anguar. The fighting during these campaigns was controversial and bloody, rivaling the Battle of Stalingrad for sheer inhumanity in some instances. Though there were many other battles within these campaigns, their number makes them impossible to describe them all in full within a single volume. The book gives players enough tools to recreate any other battles themselves, should they wish.
A wealth of scenarios are included to represent some of the most important battles, and are presented in such a way to form an extended campaign. You'll find new units for the Japanese and United States (both the U.S. Army and Marines), and all the special rules you need to play – including, crucially, those for amphibious assaults, dug-in defenders, and tropical hazards, amongst many others.
As with all our Bolt Action campaign books, you'll receive a special-edition miniature when ordering through the Warlord webstore. Cappy, Devil Dog, is a Doberman that saved hundreds of lives during the Battle of Guam. An unsuspecting camp of sleeping Marines would have fallen prey to an enormous advancing Japanese force were it not for Cappy's intervention. He unfortunately succumbed to wounds suffered during the subsequent battle, and was the first of the Devil Dogs to die in battle on Guam. A statue of Cappy is situated there, overlooking the National War Dog Cemetery and Memorial. Our miniature depicts him with his handler, PFC Allen Jacobson.
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NHS Tribute Figure
This miniature has been made in tribute to the efforts of Sir Tom Moore's spectacular achievements in raising money for the NHS. All profits to go to NHS charities.
Captain Tom Moore served in India, the Burma campaign, and Sumatra during the Second World War, as a member of the Royal Armored Corps. He later became an instructor in armored warfare.
At 99 years old, Tom Moore began to walk laps of his garden in aid of the NHS Charities Together, with the relatively modest goal of raising £1,000.00 GBP by the time he turned 100. On the day of his birthday, he had accomplished a fundraising total in excess of £30,000,000.00 GBP. For his efforts, he was appointed an honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College, and in July 2020, was knighted at Windsor Castle, amongst other accolades.
You may be wondering why the model is named NHS Tribute Figure. We have reached out to the Sir Tom Moore Foundation in the hope of making this his model and have hoped that we may yet be able to present him with painted examples, but Sir Tom has been understandably busy lately (meeting the Queen, no less!). Nevertheless, we wanted to begin raising funds for NHS charities in his honor, so have opted to make this available now.
All profits for sales of this item will go directly to NHS charities.
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This bundle contains both an on-foot miniature and a tank-commander variant, along with an M3 Lee that Sir Tom Moore would have been well acquainted with during his wartime service.
