Bloody Buna is a two-player board wargame about the New Guinea Campaign of the Second World War, in which one player commands the Japanese forces and the other commands the combined Australian and American forces. It was designed by Bob Latter and published in 1972 by the British publisher World Wide Wargames, known as 3W, first as a free pull-out game in issue 9 of its house magazine The Wargamer and later in a boxed edition. Play alternates between the two sides in an I-go-you-go sequence, with each game turn standing for one day, using 192 cardstock counters on a hex map of Papua New Guinea. The rules cover movement, combat and supply, air superiority, airlifts, sea movement and armored combat, and units that leave the forest paths to cut through the jungle suffer attritional losses. Three scenarios, Milne Bay, High Water Mark and Bloody Buna, can be linked into a campaign game. It is notable as the only 20th century board wargame focused on the war in New Guinea.
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Bloody Buna is a board wargame published by the British wargame publisher World Wide Wargames (3W) in 1972 that simulates the New Guinea Campaign between Japanese and Allied forces during World War II.
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Bloody Buna is a two-player board wargame about the New Guinea Campaign of the Second World War, in which one player commands the Japanese forces and the other commands the combined Australian and American forces. It was designed by Bob Latter and published in 1972 by the British publisher World Wide Wargames, known as 3W, first as a free pull-out game in issue 9 of its house magazine Th
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