Battle for Midway: Decision in the Pacific, 1942 (1976)

Battle for Midway is a large scale air-naval simulation of the naval action between Japanese forces attempting to invade and seize Midway Island, and the American air, naval and land forces dedicated to holding it at all costs.

Counters representing American and Japanese aircraft, ships and troops maneuver across the maps, searching for the enemy while attempting to remain concealed themselves. When the enemy is located, intense efforts are devoted to his destruction, and to the achievement of strategic objectives.

2 Maps
480 die cut counters
Rules
Deployment sheets
CRT player aids
Large ziplock package format

The game looks very playable. Being initiative based there is no certain way for a player to set a concrete strategy and so must respond to weather, turn order and the mystery of where the enemy task force is.

Magazine References:

Panzerfaust and Campaign Article Index:

• Number 76 November-December 1976
  • Starship Troopers / War at Sea / Caesar at Alesia / Lankhmar / William the Conqueror - 1066 / Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes / Mind War / War of the Sky Galleons / Atlantis 12500 B.C. / Edgehill 1642 / Crete 1941 / Tunisia 1943 / Der Fuhrer / Avalanche: The Salerno Landings / Battle for Midway: Decision in the Pacific, 1942 / Burma - "Thumbnail Analysis" (Review), Don Lowry