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Guadalcanal Miniatures

Join the Georgetown University Wargaming Society (GUWS) for a special gaming session with Little Wars TV.

It's time for miniature naval combat! Some of the most ferocious naval surface engagements of WW2 were fought between the Japanese and American navies during the Solomons Campaign of late 1942. Now is your chance to see how you would have fared in command. Steve Cerutti, long-time tabletop wargamer and co-creator of "Little Wars TV" -- YouTube's premier historical miniatures wargaming channel -- will facilitate a historically-based scenario using the WW2 naval miniature wargaming rules "General Quarters 3", and all skill-levels are welcome (though spaces are limited)! GQ3 puts players in command of multiple ships each and uses simultaneous movement and firing to simulate the potentially chaotic nature of WW2 naval engagements. While the exact scenario will depend on the number of players involved, all scenarios will be nighttime engagements that begin double-blind so no one will know where their enemy is coming from or what they've brought until the gunfire starts. Will the Japanese "Long Lance" torpedoes give them the edge? Will that new-fangled radar technology the Americans are using swing things their way? Or will it all just come down to a close-range brawl? Join us and find out!
To see what a game like this can be like and learn a bit about the history of the campaign, check out Little Wars TV's "Guadalcanal" episode here: https://youtu.be/ACK12CiUjb4
Selected participants will be notified via email by Professor Sebastian J. Bae roughly 1 week prior to the event.

Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctlDDHKgeGk5e1wnLHSf_IXUehQ_KZ-nwTV1ZmN9iOv8at6Q/viewform

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