GWAS Russo Japanese War AAR - A Fortunate Catch - Battle Scenario 1

[Tony M]

I have the introductory game of GWAS and also the WWII game, Coral Sea I think it's called. I like the strategic maps, but the tactical maps are really ugly. I played a couple turns of the WWI game once. Beautiful counters, and I like the simple combat system. But because of the horrible tactical maps I won't be buying other games in the series. That's unfortunate, because I'm a long-time German battle cruiser nerd.

For me, the strategic maps look like ocean. But the tactical maps don't look anything like the sea, and maybe that's why they don't do anything for me. You have these beautiful ship counters with a top-down view, and then a tactical map with 2 shades of blue hexes, and a bunch of numbers that don't make sense.