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Leyte Gulf Naval Chess Game

Leyte Gulf Naval Chess Game 2000

Design Lou Coatney Art Lou Coatney Publisher (Self-Published)
5.9 /10
BGG rating
2.3
Weight
1–2
Players
240
Minutes
12
Age
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About the Game

LEYTE GULF NAVAL CHESS GAME is a relatively fast and simple combined operations game about the decisive Allied offensive in the Pacific: the liberation of the Filipino people from Japanese occupation in October 1944. This was a dramatic, decisive battle of annihilation, particularly at sea.

Thanks to the Japanese Navy's brilliant plan tailored to Allied -- specifically, Admiral "Bull" Halsey's -- aggressiveness, the Imperial Japanese Navy was on the brink of massacring General Douglas MacArthur's Liberation forces ... until valor and determination (and superb training and equipment) prevailed over the skill and savage ruthlessness of our enemy ... which we were compelled to match ... to win and survive.

This is an excellent 3-player game -- 2 Allied players (who are not allowed to communicate with each other after the game begins) and 1 Japanese player.

Beautifully printed (under license) in Japan's Game Journal No. 11.

(Designer's blurb)

Filed Under

Categories
Print & Play Wargame World War II
Mechanics
Area Movement Hexagon Grid
BGG ratings
6
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026