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Tokyo Express: The Guadalcanal Naval Campaign – 1942

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1988 · 1-2 players · 360min · weight 4.03 · 386 ratings

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ID
1681
Name
Tokyo Express: The Guadalcanal Naval Campaign – 1942
Year
1988
Rank
5660
Min players
1
Max players
2
Playing time
360
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
360
Avg weight
4.0328
Num weights
61
Bayes avg
5.7342
Average
7.3136
Users rated
386
Num owned
1485
Wanting
108
Wishing
285
Num comments
233
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Dice RollingGrid MovementHexagon GridMovement PointsScenario / Mission / Campaign GameSimulationSolo / Solitaire Game
Categories (3)
NauticalWargameWorld War II
Description (879 chars)

"Tokyo Express: The Guadalcanal Naval Campaign - 1942" is a solitaire and two-player wargame simulation of the night naval battles off Guadalcanal. In the solitaire version, you command the US Fleet, awaiting the emergence of the "Tokyo Express" from the darkness. You group your ships into formations, assigning them orders, and select the targets to attack with torpedoes and guns. Simple mechanisms control Japanese maneuvers and target assignments in a realistic manner. You never know when combat will occur until the explosion of torpedo salvos signals the presence of Japanese forces who detected you first and made their surprise attacks. The two-player version modifies the solitaire game and pits players against each other in an exciting recreation of World War II naval combat. Tokyo Express is graduated in complexity to help you learn the rules as you play.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.