Guadalcanal Battles

Here are the previews for the first two OOB's. The carrier lists for Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz:

[<<Snip>>] Check below for the newer previews [<<Snip>>]

Nice.

I've already got USS Wasp. USS Washington, a pair of suitable cruisers and a triplet of suitable destroyers are also on their way, so I should be able to deploy an Eastern Solomons force in some time.

I'm also expexting the various non-carrier elements in here to pop up for the surface forces sent to fight around Ironbottom Sound once those orders of battle are set up.
Should be a really interesting set of lists.

Ok, so here are the previews for the US fleet lists. As it looks now the US part of the Guadalcanal OoB will contain four fleet lists covering the battles from Savo Island all the way to the battle of Rennell Island.

Two major carrier lists to cover the battle of the Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz Islands. Since most of the US Fleet carriers were involved here it opens up some nice possibilities for including Hornet, Enterprise and most importantly, Wasp in your games. It was the only possible fleet list to be able to include Wasp since she sank so early in the campaign.

(Also note the new layout for carriers and their airgroups)

<<Snip, finished OOB is up for download in the download section>>

Then of course there are the battles around Guadalcanal itself. I've managed to make one fleet lists that can cover any of the fleet actions around guadalcanal instead of making many tiny fleet lists. This should give some flexibility while still retaining the feel of a Guadalcanal cruiser force.

<<Snip, finished OOB is up for download in the download section>>

Finally I made a seperate fleet list for the battle of Rennell Island. I included it even though it was not much of a fleet action. Still, the lists sees the introduction of quite a different variety of ships including the cleveland class, the baby-flattops of the sangamon class and the first time the Fletcher class destroyers can be fielded in serious numbers.

<<Snip, finished OOB is up for download in the download section>>

All in all these lists greatly expand the US Navy in Naval War, increasing their fleet lists from 2 to 6. I'm looking forward to encountering them on the table

Now back to work on to the Japanese....

Looks like fun! I've been wanting some way to get my North Carolina on the table, and now there's definitely one. Gives me an excuse to finally pick up some US carriers and some more destroyers now, that's not a very well developed part of my collection just yet.

Just touching up the basecoats on USS Monssen, Aaron Ward, Barton, Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington myself, so that should be of good use with this.

Excellent -- thank you! Anxiously awaiting the Japanese OOB!

Ask and you shall receive

I think I'm done compiling the fleet list for the Japanese part of the OoB. Feel free to doublecheck (please).

<<Snip, finished OOB is up for download in the download section>>

I'll be making a start on the Japanese OoB's soon. Any suggestions for worthwhile officers are welcome!

Many, many thanks! Am in the process of pulling together a demo game with the vessels I've painted to learn the rules and mechanics. I hope to post some photos of my expanding fleets and the demo games soon.

Please do! The more pictures and the more demo reports there are, the better! It might even coax some more people that have been shy into posting their own pics or experiences.