Produktbeschreibung
Following their defeat in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese next attempted to capture the strategic Port Moresby on New Guinea's southern coast with an assault across the Owen Stanley Mountains. For five months Australian and Japanese troops battled along the narrow Kokoda Trail, across appalling terrain of high mountains and thick jungles.
Kokoda Trail is a 64-page book supplement for the Panzer Grenadier series, focused on these strategically vital battles in the middle of nowhere. There are 30 new scenarios, or game situations, and two new maps of the jungle and mountain terrain over which the campaign was fought. This is not a complete game; ownership of Afrika Korps and Guadalcanal is required.
Japanese troops landed in northeastern New Guinea in July 1942, and quickly began a march over the forbidding Owen Stanley Mountains toward the vital anchorage and airfield at Port Moresby on the southern coast. They ran into Australian infantrymen of the 39th Militia Battalion, starting a three-month campaign waged in some of the world's most forbidding terrain.
An Australian militia brigade went up the trail to face the Japanese, who poured in reinforcements of their own. Next the veteran Australian 7th Infantry Division, the heroes of Tobruk, plunged into the jungles and finally stopped the Japanese attacks. While Australian soldiers fought on despite rampant malaria, Japanese troops hauled artillery shells over the mountains by hand and resorted to eating Australian prisoners of war. Finally in September 1942 the Japanese withdrew from one of the war's most brutal campaigns. |
