About this game
While its title plays off the then-recent WWII naval Battle of the Coral Sea, it is actually an abstract game of naval combat played on an 8 x 10 grid. Unusually, ships sit on intersecting lines of the grid rather than in the spaces between them. The playing pieces are cardboard, and each player starts with 10 ships: one battleship, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers and three destroyers.
Mechanism
Move and capture
Rules
The aim is to manoeuver ships to bring their broadsides to bear on an enemy on an adjacent position. A larger ship can kill a smaller ship the lies directly ahead. In turn, each player may move one ship, either one intersection forward or a turn to the left or right. The destroyers have the option of any two moves (two ahead, a turn and move, or turning directly astern). The battleship can attack at a range of two. Each side also has a land battery that kills any ship ending a move on its line of fire.
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