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Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal - Pacific War Naval Warfare

Cyril Jarnot / Jun 5, 2020 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy

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Steam Deck Playable

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CARRIER BATTLES is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame covering the naval-air battles of the Pacific War, from 1942 to 1943. Find your opponent and strike at him before he sinks your precious carriers, while preventing them from invading or supporting your own amphibious operations.

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What's new

1.15 - Leyte Gulf

2026-07-15

Scenario: Leyte Gulf, October 1944 (DLC) This scenario covers the landing at Leyte and the Japanese gambit to counter it using remaining carriers as decoy and seeking a surface battle. • What-if options counterbalance a bit the overwhelming US power • Kamikazes have been added to the Pilot module Rules Update CAP and AA rules have been somewhat revised. CAP - Combat table reworked - Fighters gets +1 against unescorted non-strategic bombers - Ammunition depletion AA - AA 1% Confused, 3% Hit (reduced by weather). - US +1 Confused in 1943, +1 Hit in 1944. - Light AA capped at 40 - Light + Heavy AA capped at 100 Air attacks - -1% to Hit for every 7 pts of AA instead of 5. (100 pts of AA => max -15%). Heavy AA halved for this purpose. Air units: - Some heavy fighters have a strafing value of 2 instead of 1. - Air damage table reworked - P47-D Task forces

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- US TF may contain up to 6 CV per TF starting end-1944. - Both Japanese and US TF may contain up to 16 ships from June 1944.

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What players say

Very Positive

89% positive, 194 reviews

Recommended111 hrs played

Totally cool and excellent. The game Avalon Hill's, 1980 Flat Top should have been! Too bad it took 45 years of waiting. All it needs is some MacGowan cover art. LOL. Minor upgrades needed for rare in game problems that don't come up often. One player works almost flawlessly. I feel launching 2 player games currently a little more complex than need be. But overall, more stable and playable than most "small projects"...

8 found this helpful, 2025-12-23

Recommended19 hrs played

clean and historically correct.

5 found this helpful, 2026-02-04

Recommended31 hrs played

A bit ponderous for a play-by-email/server with many dull turns, but lots of fun vs the AI. Nice operational level naval game.

4 found this helpful, 2025-10-01

Recommended78 hrs played

Coming from a WitP:AE background I was hesitant to jump in, as the depth of the game seemed to be a bit shallower, but in the end it was a very positive disappointment. Not only is it not shallow it offers a lot of tactical choices and is a fairly good representation of carrier action and early scenarios of the Pacific war in general (haven't got the DLCs just yet). Also the game offers a lot of guides o it's not too...