Product Description

Assemble your task force and prepare for battle!

Get ready for the new Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures War at Sea: Task Force expansion. With 60 pre-painted detailed miniatures, players will be able to assemble navies ready to do battle on the high seas. Fast-paced and action-packed, this exciting miniatures game will let players recreate historical naval battles or go head-to-head in competitive skirmishes.

Each Axis & Allies War at Sea: Task Force Booster Pack contains 5 prepainted plastic miniatures with stat cards.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139349 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-29
• Released on: 2008-07-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Misc. Supplies

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended for History Buffs, Collectors, and People who Love Games
War at Sea: Task Force is an expansion product for the new "Axis & Allies: War at Sea" collectible miniature game. Each pack includes 5 ships, one of which will be a large (and highly desired) aircraft carrier, battleship, or larger cruiser. The other four ships will typically include a smaller cruiser or destroyer, one or two aircraft (usually a combination of a medium bomber, fighter, dive bomber, & torpedo bombers), and an occasional sub.

About the Game:
In order to play the game, you will need at least one "Axis & Allies Minis Starter War At Sea". I've played the game with my brother many times, and we both believe that Axis & Allies: War at Sea is one of the best collectible card or miniature games ever made. Typically we spend about 15 minutes building our fleets and then around 45 minutes battling for a contested sea zone.

The rules are easy to learn, and the strategies you can use to win are as varied as the fleets of all of the naval powers of World War II. Personally, I'm a fan of the air-superiority doctrine, meaning I like to make heavy use of dive and torpedo bombers (and protective fighter screens) to deny my opponent's navy of the opportunity to control the game's objective points. My brother relies heavily on battleships and a picket of destroyers (which he now uses to harass my aircraft).

The fun of the game is refining your own doctrine off of the strengths and weaknesses of your opponent's fleet.

The card stats are easy to read, and the obverse side includes an entire paragraph outlining a memorable historical event around an actual named ship or aircraft campaign. The cards alone will please WWII history buffs!

About the Set:
Ships in this set include new sculpts and some repaints of old sculpts. What is nice is that the repaints come with new stat cards, but actually are different named ships of a similar class to the original piece used in the first War at Sea set. For example, as part of the Lend-Lease program the United States build and sold smaller escort carriers to the United Kingdom. One of these Lend-Lease carriers, the HMS Fencer, makes an appearance in this expansion. The piece is a repaint of the previous set's USS St. Lo.

This set includes ships from the Allies: Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ships from the Axis: Italy, Japan, and Germany.

Between the two sets, you will be able to build a more diverse fleet (even Italy now enough robust pieces to contest the Mediterranean).

Finally, my booster arrived in perfect (non-crushed) condition from Amazon. I now like to toss a booster with each of my Amazon orders.

Banged up better late than never
While the price was good and delivery was free, you get what you pay for. Don't get me wrong there was nothing damaged in the packaging but the packaging for these miniatures were the original booster boxes but they were sent in a manila bubble wrap lined envelope and the boxes got smashed but nothing was broken. I am assuming that was the price for free shipping to cut down on cost and they did arrive a week later than estimated. Would I order them again at that price most likely but don't plan on getting them when promised.