Module:First Blood: The Guadalcanal Campaign

Publisher	The Avalon Hill Intercontinental Kriegspiel Society	Era	WWII
Year	1991	Topic	Pacific Theater
Players	1 to 2	Scale	Operational
Length	medium

Files and Module Information

Filename	Filetype	Size	Compatibility	Developer
Colourful version
FirstBlood-2.0.0.vmod	module	7.55 MB	3.6	Christian Holm Christensen
FirstBlood-1.0.vmod	module	5.35 MB	3.6	Christian Holm Christensen
Ol'School version
FirstBlood-2.0.0+oldschool.vmod	module	6.37 MB	3.6	Christian Holm Christensen

Change Log

Version 2.0
- Major updates to the module
  - Automatised combat declaration and odds and DRM calculations
  - Automatised combat resolution
  - Automatised staging of reinforcements
  - Better airfield hex status counters
  - "Ol'School" variant
  - Tutorial (Video)
Version 1.0
- First upload of this module

Comments

This is a module of The Avalon Hill Intercontinental Kriegspiel Society's game First Blood - The Guadacanal Campaign. The original game as published in Kommandeur Vol. 26, No. 6 in 1991, and has since been made available from grognard.com.

Tips

Use the turn track in the menu bar. It implements some automatic actions, and progresses the turn marker along the turn track.
The rules are available, as a PDF, through the Help menu.
See also More information in the Help menu.
Run the tutorial (or watch the Video)
Use Ctrl-X to declare combats, Ctrl-Y to resolve them.
Automatised actions can be disabled in the games Preferences tab.

Implementation

This module is based on my version of the game (sources available from this site). This version a revamp of the original, including new text and graphics, written in LaTeX using wargame package. This package supports generating a (draft) VASSAL module from the same sources as the Print'n'Play PDF.