Carrier (game)

Carrier is a solitaire wargame published in 1990 by Victory Games.

Description

Carrier, designed by Jon Southard, uses a single-player rules system to simulate the World War II conflict in the Solomon Islands between Allied and Japanese naval forces. Several scenarios are included that simulate the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.[1] Several other non-historical "what if" scenarios are also offered.[2]

The player is in command of the Allied Task Force fighting to defeat the Japanese Navy. Depending on the scenario played, the player's forces can be entirely American, or mostly American with some British Commonwealth elements. The solitaire rules attempt to recreate the incomplete knowledge that admirals had about the exact location of the opposing forces, and subsequent decisions that were taken with inexact or faulty intelligence.[1]

In 1992, a new scenario by Alan Arvold, The Battle of Rennell Island, was published in The General.[2]

Reception

In Issue 73 of Fire & Movement, Jeff Petraska found the game to be challenging and suspenseful as he tried to find the Japanese fleet and then decide what forces to commit to battle, but he thought that the game relied too much on luck rather than skill.[3]

gollark: Anyway, I have code for having drones do pathfinding, assuming you like OC waypoints.
gollark: Should this really be necessary to use the k.lua API?`-- Somewhat awful k.lua initialization messlocal w = require("w")local r = require("r")local k = require("k")local jua = require("jua")os.loadAPI(fs.exists("json.lua") and "json.lua" or "json")local json = _G.json_G.json = nillocal await = jua.awaitr.init(jua)w.init(jua)k.init(jua, json, w, r)`
gollark: It's a shame; drones with player tracking would be... something?
gollark: Probably not.
gollark: I think entity scanners have a longer range.

References
  1. "Carrier: Historical Notes on the New Game". The General. Avalon Hill. 27 (2): 54–55. 1991.
  2. "The Battle of Rennell Island: A New Scenario for CARRIER". The General. Avalon Hill. 27 (6): 49–50. 1992.
  3. Petraska, Jeff (June–July 1991). "Carrier: A Playtester's Comments". Fire & Movement. World Wide Wargames (73).CS1 maint: date format (link)


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