Empire of the Sun

Card-driven games meet the wargame hexagon!

Empire of the Sun is a game about the Pacific War during World War II.

One player takes the side of the Japanese and the other the Western Allies. The Japanese try to out perform their historical counterpart and force the Allies into a negotiated end to the war, while the Allies try to destroy Japan’s military and place its industry within range of Allied B29s and Naval forces.

If the Allies cannot keep pace with their historical counterpart, the only recourse is the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands themselves.

From the designer who introduced card-driven games (CDGs) to the hobby, Mark Herman’s Empire of the Sun is a strategic overview of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbour to the surrender (or not!) of Japan.

This was also the first game to move the CDG system closer to the classic hexagon wargame and contains elements of both genres to create an epic struggle.