SGS Battle For Shanghai Build 20783805-Skidrow

covers the period from August 13, 1937, to November 26, 1937, till the final Japanese capture of the city and the heavy destruction brought to the city. At the end of November, when the game ends, the Chinese have lost ground and are even now threatened at their capital of Nanking. But could manage to have them seize the initial enemy positions in Shanghai and hold them before the Japanese reinforcements and counter-offensive (from late August) strikes at you, thus complicating Tokyo’s plans and achieving your own, to draw worldwide attention to the conflict? Or, as the Japanese commander, can you hold your ground in the city and put the assaulting Chinese in an even more precarious situation than the historical one when your counter-offensive comes? Each quarter of city and nearby towns and suburbs will become the stake of a thousand battles.

In this specific game, units are mostly battalion-size on the Japanese side and regimental or brigade size on the Chinese’s (with some exception for particular units at battalion level too). They confront each other in urban zones of the city and paddies areas on the immediate outskirts of the city. Some “off map boxes” are also integrated to represent more distant areas (where close strategic points such as air bases are located).

The game consists mainly of ground units and some air and (few) naval units. However, the latter have more of a role of support “markers” as in traditional board games or wargames than of units with fine and dedicated management. A few river units are also present to represent the Japanese ships that operated on the Huangpu and Yangze, or the the main carrier ships off at sea in Hangzhou bay.