Watch “Coast Watchers Teaser from Designer Volko Ruhnke,” a board game video on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by GMTGames on YouTube:
In this video you will see a brief historical background and a peek at aspects of game play in the 2-player boardgame Coast Watchers, designed by Volko Ruhnke.
You can learn more or pre-order Coast Watchers on the P500 page here: https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1102-coast-watchers.aspx
Prototype components shown--not production art.
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This video was originally posted by Volko Ruhnke here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkmfT2Oc6Y
Mainly how-to-play and unboxings. Coast Watchers: Allied Field Intelligence in the South Pacific, 1942-1943 is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 4 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
1 - 2 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Coast Watchers: Allied Field Intelligence in the South Pacific, 1942-1943, from BoardGameGeek:
Coast Watchers takes you into the World War II South Pacific's struggle between Allied intelligence teams and Japanese security forces. Standup blocks hide coastwatching stations, guerrillas, refugees, and stranded Allied crew. Facedown counters hide the buildup of Japanese forces, which the coastwatchers seek to observe and report to headquarters. Other counters show where Japanese patrols are searching for coastwatchers or go into and get drawn from cups to run Japanese searches and Allied delivery missions.
Each side has Mission cards. Allied Missions assign side tasks to the coastwatchers. Japanese Missions lay out secret military objectives for victory points, including air and sea operations against which the coastwatchers are to warn Allied forces. By hunting coastwatchers while building up military readiness and guiding operations, the Japanese player seeks to slip through the enemy intelligence net. Players also draw Asset cards: special abilities to augment actions and perhaps add victory points.
Coast Watchers offers 15 standalone "Situations" plus 4 campaigns to tie them together. The Situations span the early-1942 Japanese incursion into the South Pacific to the neutralization of their great base at Rabaul by the end of 1943.
A solitaire system is included.
-description from the publisher
Designer
Volko Ruhnke
Artists
Robert Altbauer, Tomasz Niedzinski, Wouter Schoutteten, Matthew Wallhead