Games - Bolt Action: Campaign: New Guinea

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CONTENTS

T his book is an expansion for Bolt Action, the 28mm scale tabletop wargame set during World War II. Whilst there is historical detail within the narrative, this volume is not a history book it is first and foremost a wargaming supplement. The team who put this book together took feedback from reviews of previous supplements and opinions from the Bolt Action community via www.warlordgames.com/forum. With this information to hand, the intention was to provide a good mixture of scenarios, new units and new rules whilst still giving some historical background for context. Some previously published rules and units have also been reprinted this is to save players the expense of buying additional books for content which is vital to this volume, but might form only a small part of other books.

The New Guinea campaign spanned several years and thousands of miles; to even attempt to summarise such a huge campaign into a book of this size is to accept that it cannot do justice to those who fought in it. Many critical battles have not been presented as scenarios in this book, merely due to the constraints of the book size and the authors wish to present a variety of very different scenarios for players. For those who are interested in a more in-depth look at the actual historical events surrounding the New Guinea campaign, a is provided.

The strategically vital island had been identified by Japanese commanders early on as both the core of a defensive perimeter to prevent any Allied attacks staged in Australia, or conversely as a staging post for an assault on mainland Australia itself. It therefore came as no surprise to the Australian defenders in January 1942 when the Japanese South Seas Force was sighted en route to New Britain and New Ireland. The stage was set for some of the bloodiest fighting in any theatre of the war, from the opening rounds of the Rabaul landings right up to the closing stages of the war in the Pacific in August 1945.

Australian forces, New Guinea, 194244: (LR) Independent Company Lieutenant, Tank driver (2/6th Armd Regt), Forward scout (7th or 9th Div), by Carlos Chagas Osprey Publishing. Taken from Elite 153: The Australian Army in World War II.