Dai Senka Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

Japanese children's 'wargame'. 1-4 players move from their starting spaces (2 as submarines, 2 as bombers) by die rolls, directed through a network of spaces by the number they roll, scoring points for the enemy ships they land on and 'sink'. With luck, one player can reach the victory space in the minimum of 5 moves.

The spaces in descending order are:
Victory:
??? Dai Senka / Big Battlefield
60 points:
?????? USS Lexington (scuttled 8/5/1942, Battle of the Coral Sea)
??????????? HMS Prince of Wales (sunk 10/12/1941, off Malaya)
25 points:
?? heavy cruiser
??????? HMS Exeter (sunk 27/2/1942, Battle of Java Sea)
?? heavy cruiser
15 points:
?? light cruiser
??????? HNLMS Tromp (severely damaged, 19-20/2/1942, Battle of Bandung Strait)
??????? HNLMS De Ruyter (sunk 27/2/1942, Battle of Java Sea)
?????? HNLMS Java (sunk 27/2/1942, Battle of Java Sea)
15 points:
?? merchant raider
?? light cruiser
??? transport ship