"Beachhead is a fast and furious tactical level simulation of combat on a South Pacific island in WWII. The varied unit types and, weapons include infantry, machine gun, mortar, howitzer, tank, flame-throwing-tank, rangers, flame-thrower armed assault engineers, heavy bunkers armed with 3" and 6" naval guns, machine gun emplacements, entrenchments, landing craft, 6", 8" and 14" naval bombardment, and aircraft armed with bombs, rockets, or napalm. The game includes rules that cover inverted Japanese set up that precludes knowledge of Japanese unit location or the effects of bombardment until the landing craft are committed, fields of fire, machine gun fire-lanes, Japanese "rain of death" mortar fire, smoke, pinned units, infantry close assault, defense values based on moving and non-moving status varying with terrain, line of sight and ranging fire, Banzai charges, shell scatter, and much more. Players must learn close support small unit tactics to win because for the loser there are only two options . . . Death or the Sea."
