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Fire in the Sky

Fire in the Sky
-- Multi-Man Publishing game published 2005... Description posted on BGG
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International Game Series game from Multi-Man Publishing.

Simulating the Pacific Front of World War II has always been one of the great wargame design challenges. The same distance that planes could cover in a few hours took days for ships and weeks for foot soldiers. Hostile jungles and great oceans combined to make logistics and transport of paramount historical concerns. These and other design puzzles are solvable by only the most gifted designers.

Renowned Japanese wargame designer Tetsuya Nakamura has successfully met these challenges and Multi-Man Publishing is to offer the elegant result - Fire in the Sky. Fire in the Sky has, until now, only been available in Japanese.

With only one map and 180 counters, Fire in the Sky packs years of prior Pacific design attempts and experience into an effort that beautifully distills the essence of the conflict and serves as further proof that great things do indeed come in small packages. Fire in the Sky provides players with the same problems and perspectives faced by the historical combatants, yet does so in a game that can be played in 5 hours or less. The game is ingeniously balanced and so provides not only a look into the minds of the actual commanders, but also a fun, competitive and tense gaming experience.

The game includes glorious 1-inch counters, a clever map that integrates hexes and areas, and rules that cover all of the essential aspects of the Great Pacific War. Oil convoys and troop transports are as vital to victory as the massive Carrier fleets that steam over the vast Pacific. Tetsuya Nakamura’s intelligent and ingenious design also offers Western players a fascinating glimpse into the Japanese perspective on the war.
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This is a port over of the VASSAL module of the MMP 2005 game Fire in the Sky.
VASSAL Contributors (GJK, Davout, donstone,Mark Beninger)...Props to them for the work they did in creating that fine module.
A new commercial version of this game is forthcoming from Phalanx Games:
https://phalanx.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/



Regarding this workshop subscription:

At this point there is no scripting. Upon loading, the game is set up to play the Campaign game.
I have used Tumba's magic dice tray in this mod, because I like it!!

Rules are available at:
http://www.multimanpublishing.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=rBiWKIQuj9A%3D&tabid=65

Many good resources here...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14083/fire-sky-great-pacific-war-1941-1945/files

For this initial version, I have taken the liberty of utilizing the very nice reinforcemnt schedules and charts made by VonEpp....

Once the game is available again commercially I highly recommend you buy a copy if you do not already own it. Why?? Because I want you to have a fantastic game you can be proud to own!

Enjoy!