About Battle of Saipan
Battle of Saipan 1944 is a turn based strategy game set on the Pacific theater during the Second World War. From Joni Nuutinen: by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011 Summer, 1944: You are in command of the...
Battle of Saipan 1944 is a turn based strategy game set on the Pacific theater during the Second World War. From Joni Nuutinen: by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011
Summer, 1944: You are in command of the mostly-Marine American task force with orders to seize the island of Saipan, so that it can be used as a base to launch B-29 air strikes against the Japanese home islands. The ensuing battle -- which included the U.S. 2nd Marine Division, 4th Marine Division, and the U.S. Army's 27th Infantry Division -- saw both the largest Japanese tank battle and the biggest banzai attack of the Pacific War.
As you gain control of the units while they are still in the landing ships, you can redirect the flow of reinforcements to your liking. This allows quick spreading of the beachhead but also makes it easier to overextend your landing.
FEATURES:
+ Historical accuracy: Campaign mirrors the historical setup as much as possible while being challenging and entertaining.
+ Thanks to a huge amount of in-built variation and the game's smart AI technology, each game provides a unique war gaming experience as each roll of dices will slowly but surely guide the flow of the scenario in a different direction that the previous play-through.
+ Settings: Various options are available to alter the look of the gaming experience: Change difficulty level, choose icon set for units (NATO or REAL) and cities (Round, Shield, or Square), decide what is drawn on the map, change font, unit and hexagon sizes.
+ Clever AI: Instead of attacking on an obvious straight line towards the target, the AI opponent understands encircling, smaller tactical tasks, trying to hold a coherent front line, etc. and the AI tries to balance all these various aspects in its game plan.
In order to be a victorious general, you must learn to coordinate your attacks in two ways. First, as adjacent units give support to an attacking unit, keep your units in groups in order to gain local superiority and win battles. Secondly, it is rarely the best idea to use brute force when it is possible to encircle the enemy and cut off its supply lines to supply cities instead.
Join your fellow strategy gamers in changing the course of the Second World War!
"The Battle of Saipan was a baptism of fire for the American military. It was the first time that we had faced a Japanese defense force that was prepared to fight to the end. It was a harsh and costly battle, but it was a victory that was essential to our ultimate success in the Pacific."
-- Samuel Eliot Morison is his book History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Battle of Saipan since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-22 20:49:20.
The latest version is 3.1.2.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:45:24. See below the changes in each version.
Battle of Saipan version 3.1.2.0
Updated At: 2024-03-26
Changes: + War Status: Reports the amount of hexagons the player lost or gained in the previous turn
+ Easier to get extra MPs in quiet rear areas (the earlier rule was absolute about not having any enemy controlled hexagons within a range)
+ Setting: Store a failsafe copy of the current game (turn OFF for old phones)
+ Fix: Arrows indicating past movement might have been drawn over-sized depending on zoom and settings
+ HOF cleared from the most out-of-date scores
Battle of Saipan version 3.1.0.0
Updated At: 2023-10-20
Changes: + Generals: Request Call-for-Support replaces Loot action in the menu
+ Each general alters between offering build airfield or build hospital action
+ Accuracy: Artillery and airforce units can spend MPs to prepare for the next barrage/sortie which will be more effective
+ Revamped movement arrows
+ Settings: Scattered Units marked with symbols
+ Setting: Alter how strongly hexagon grid is drawn on the map
+ MP cost of requesting mines goes up by 1 for each 20 mines in play
+ HOF cleanup
Battle of Saipan version 3.0.0.1
Updated At: 2023-08-29
Changes: + Setting: MAP button can either show full screen map with default city icons or VP in a circle
+ Setting: Make support units to be at higher or lower selection priority when using NEXT button
+ Setting: Turn AutoMove ON/OFF or alter its range (moving the unit multiple hexagons after a faraway tap)
+ Setting: Automove can focus the map into direction of travel
+ Units getting a combat bonus from the selected General marked with black-and-white edges
+ Bigger Status Line
+ One Disband per turn
Battle of Saipan version 2.8.0.1
Updated At: 2023-06-22
Changes: + Added few Japanese anti-tank gun units
+ Setting: General switched from ON/OFF to % chance of getting each general (options 0-100)
+ If a unit covers a tactical route, narrow green line drawn over the unit to indicate the route (similar to blue line draw on units to indicate a river)
+ Dugout can be placed on a border hexagon of a province if enemy control at most 10% of it
+ 30 UNDOs
+ More effective American bombardment
+ Simplified Shield-styled city icons
+ Units can embark from cities
Battle of Saipan version 2.8.0.0
Updated At: 2023-06-06
Changes: + Added few Japanese anti-tank gun units
+ Setting: General switched from ON/OFF to % chance of getting each general (options 0-100)
+ If a unit covers a tactical route, narrow green line drawn over the unit to indicate the route
+ Dugout can be placed on a border hexagon of a province if enemy control at most 10% of it
+ Number of UNDO-actions increased to 30
+ More effective American bombardment
+ Simplified Shield-styled city icons
Battle of Saipan version 2.7.0.1
Updated At: 2023-04-29
Changes: + General can request sabotage: a few of nearby enemy controlled hexagon change sides
+ Setting: Draw American flag over empty spots on map (if any) (take II)
+ Dugout can be placed on a border hexagon of a province if enemy control at most 5% of it
+ Any unit can be disbanded by selecting it and pressing REL-button for 5 seconds
+ AI: Improved situation assessment before attacking over rivers
+ Stats includes total travel of ground combat units per turn
+ HOF cleanup
Battle of Saipan version 2.6.6.1
Updated At: 2023-01-01
Changes: + Dugouts can be requested via an action by generals (cost 4 MPs)
+ When MP/HP resource selected, eligible units will have yellow edges
+ Setting: Draw own flag over empty spots on map (if any)
+ Less Japanese replacements over time
Battle of Saipan version 2.6.2.0
Updated At: 2022-02-03
Changes: + Minefields requested by Generals/Commanders now arrive with one turn delay
+ Assigning replacements (+1 HP) to a unit is a bit easier (3 adjacent enemy hexagons allowed, but the severity of enemy-blocks-replacements depends on the Difficulty Level
+ AI artillery might escape capture (happens less often than General's escape)
+ AI: Improvements in front line coherence
+ HOF relocated to web (see dev-log for details)
+ HOF cleared from the oldest scores
Battle of Saipan version 2.6.0.2
Updated At: 2021-10-27
Changes: + Fix: Supply route maxed out for units at NE corner when supply ships land on SW corner
+ Fog-of-War: Sometimes enemy HP drawn as ?
+ Assigning +1 HP: The unit can't be adjacent to > 1 enemy hexagon
+ New province borders: brightness/width options
+ Grey box: Percent of how much the player controls of the province on the screen
+ Yellow box: Number of VPs player controls & amount required
+ New default background: solid yellow-green color
+ Brightened darkest icons
+ More Tactical Routes
Battle of Saipan version 2.6.0.1
Updated At: 2021-10-13
Changes: + Fog-of-War: Sometimes enemy HP drawn as ?
+ Assigning +1 HP: The unit can't be adjacent to more than 1 enemy hexagon
+ New province borders: Settings: brightness & width
+ The percent of how much the player controls of the province currently on the screen shown on grey box
+ The number of VPs player controls & amount required shown on yellow box
+ New default background is solid yellow-green color (22 image patterns, grey, green, yellow-green)
+ Brightened darkest icons
+ More Tactical Routes
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