Frontline: Tarawa - Japanese and US Forces in the Pacific Theatre 1942-1943 Contains: 2 US lists and 2 Japanese lists, special rules for the armies, a story part about the setting and the historical battle of Tarawa in November 1943 between the US and the Japanese forces. These are historical briefings for appropriate company sized battles for any size of tabletop miniatures from 1/100 to 1/72 or 28mm. You can use it with any WWII tabletop rule system. In the books and in our apps we included all you need to set up your armies for this specific Pacific theatre. You can configure your company with a typical HQ, Combat and Weapons Platoons and of course some support units. You find all this in full overview on the company diagrams, with special rules, point values and more. Based on historical facts players can refight the famous battle of Tarawa and the landing on Betio Island in 1943. The battle of Tarawa was part of the Gilbert Island Campaign (code-named Operation Galvanic). It was fought from November 20 - 23, 1943. —description from the publisher