Carrier Battles: The Struggle for Guadalcanal

Carrier Battles: The Struggle for Guadalcanal 1985

8.0 /10
BGG rating
#17284
BGG rank
4.2
Weight
2
Players
2
Best at
180
Minutes
12
Age

Location

Sign in to see where your copy sits: the shelf, drawn, and how the box sits on it.

My Copy & Notes

Sign in to see your copy here: the edition, when you added it, and what you paid.

My Notes

Notes are private to their writer. Sign in to keep yours here.

My Prints for Carrier Battles: The Struggle for Guadalcanal

All 0 on LayerUp

Sign in to see the prints you marked Printed for this game, the insert in the box first.

Expansions & Promos

No expansions or promos on record for this game.

About the Game

Carrier Battles includes the Basic, Advanced, and Optional rules for Carrier Battles, and Basic Game Rules for The Iron Samurai.

"Carrier Battles, and its companion game, The Iron Samurai, are historical simulations of battles fought between air and surface forces of the Japanese and Allied fleets in the South Pacific during World War II. Carrier Battles covers the aircraft carrier operations in detail, while The Iron Samurai focuses on the surface actions . . . A selection of historical and hypothetical scenarios are included as well as a campaign game covering the series of surface and carrier battles which raged in the Solomons from August through November of 1942. In addition, guidelines for generating your own scenarios are included."

Clarification: The Iron Samurai was planned as a separate game with advanced rules, but was never published.

Filed Under

Categories
Mechanics
BGG ratings
34 · geek rating 5.53
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026