Description
Shattered Swords is a card game on the naval battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in 1942. It is a unique system using cards to represent the majority of combatants from both sides. Players will have to fly search planes, find the enemy, and strike first before the enemy finds them.
Scenarios Included:
- The Battle of Coral Sea
- The Battle of Midway
- The Battle of the Eastern Solomons
- The Battle of Santa Cruz
Also included is a linked campaign game that allows players to play each battle in order. Lastly, there is a grand free-for-all game mode in which almost anything can happen!
Product Information:
- Complexity: Low-Medium
- Playing time: 2-3 Hours
- Solitaire Suitability: Medium
- Players: 1-2
- Map Scale: Abstract
- Time Scale: Abstract
- Unit Scale: 1-6 Vessels Per Ship Card, 1 Squadron Per Plane Card
- Game Designer: Adam Starkweather
- Game Artist: Greg Warren (Components), Daisey Traynham (Box)
Game Components:
- 2 22″ x 34″ playing mats
- 1 Countersheet (1″ Counters)
- 1 Rulebook with 6 Scenarios
- 8 Six-Sided Dice
- 1 Set-Up Player Aid
- 4 Poker-Sized Card Decks (55 Cards Each)
- US Plane
- US Ship
- Japan Plane
- Japan Ship
