The League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers presents, Wake Island 192?

[Ignatieff]

The summer of 192? sees the new empires of the U.S.A. and Japan go head-to-head in the opening moves for mastery of the Pacific Ocean.

The Washington Naval treaty of 1922 had tried to prevent this happening. In addition to limiting the construction of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers, it also forbade Britain, Japan and the U.S.A. from building naval bases and fortifications in the Pacific.

In this ‘what if’ scenario, a US naval construction team has tried to surreptitiously fortify the strategically tiny coral atoll of Wake Island.  Wake Island’s significance was that it was half way between Hawaii and mainland Japan.  Such as provocation was unlikely to be ignored by a confident and militaristic Japan.

It felt that bright June morning like just another day in Paradise for the few hundred construction workers and military personnel on the remote Pacific atoll…..
                                               
click here to see what happened next....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leagueextraordinarykriegspielers/sets/72157640491226684/

A huge thank you to The Beast of Bukhara for his inspiration, perspiration and consummate skill

[Ignatieff]

p.s. it was fought as a video game respawning exercise, a la the video game of the same name, so it was about individual scores....apart from Major Cornelius 'Treetrunk' Callaghan, USMC (me), who selflessly defended that bit of coral that is forever American.  Successfully.  Which is another way of admitting I forgot that was the way it was meant to be played 

And a huge thank you, as always to V.I.Blackwood for the amazing pics!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

The pics are amazing, indeed. Fabulous bunch of eye candies, well done!

[Doug ex-em4]

Oh my word...! Isn't that fantastic?

I feel faint...

 

Doug

[Hammers]

That's fucking gorgeous! Fun to see how the Kreigspielars branches out to other reaches of the world. Where next?

[Ignatieff]

South East Asia. This summer.

[Mahwell skel]

Saw this at York last weekend. Looked even better in real life! Loads of little details.

[doowopapocalypse]

Lovely as ever.

[FramFramson]

Holeeeee Mackinaw! What a board!

[mysteriousbill]

What scale is that big flying boat, and where did you get it?

[gamer Mac]

Stunning board and I love the selection of figures being used.

[Ignatieff]

What scale is that big flying boat, and where did you get it?

It's a bit undersized for 1/56, but looks the part, I.e. Bigger than the planes around it.  The Beast sourced it from the Philippines, sprayed it matt and added a pilot. I'm sure he will be along soon to let you know where exactly it came from.

[marianas_gamer]

Well   worth the wait! The Beast outdid himself on this one 
Lon

[Marine0846]

A great setup.
Just love all of it.
Lots of cool little things that bring it to life.

[Mitch K]

I saw this at York and it was brilliant. I could have spent an hour watching!