Emperor's Sword, The

In the years before the Second World War exploded, both the United States and the Empire of Japan expanded their fleets and air forces, planning to build even more new ships and planes. The outbreak of war scuttled many of these drawing-board vessels, but that hasn’t kept us from adding them to Second World War at Sea.

The Emperor's Sword is a massive expansion set for Second World War at Sea, taking place in the alternative history setting we’re calling The Long War. It features the ships and planes planned by the Japanese, pitting them against the United States Navy and the additional ships and planes of its own building plans.

You get 420 brand-new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces: 140 double-sized pieces for ships and 280 standard-sized ones for aircraft. Plus a big new operational map, extending the map from Midway Deluxe Edition all the way to the West Coast.

The Japanese player gets:

• A full new set of next-generation carrier planes including the A7M fighters, D4Y dive bombers and B6N and B7A torpedo planes.
• The additional three Yamato-class battleships laid down or ordered.
• The Tosa- and Kii-class battleships of the 1920’s, modernized for a new war.
• The four fast battleships of the No. 13 Type, bearing 18-inch guns and also modernized for a new war.
• Two of the huge A140-I battleship design, armed with ten 16-inch guns.
• Two of the huge A140-J3 battleship design, armed with twelve 16-inch guns.
• Two of the huge A140-C battleship design, armed with eight 18-inch guns.
• Four of the fast B64 Type battle cruisers.
• All three Amagi-class battle cruisers, converted to aircraft carriers.
• The projected sister ships for Zuikaku, Hiryu and Soryu.
• Two huge Taiho-class aircraft carriers, with armored flight decks.
• All four Ibuki-class heavy cruisers.
• Two additional Tone-class seaplane cruisers.
• Four of the proposed Ibuki torpedo-cruiser variant.
• All eight of the proposed 1941 Type A super heavy cruiser.
• Four proposed Oyodo-class light cruisers.
• Six of the proposed large anti-aircraft light cruisers.
• Eight of the Akizuki-type small anti-aircraft cruisers.
• Eight Shimakaze-class super-destroyers.
• Twenty-four destroyers of the improved Yugumo and Akizuki types.

The American player gets:

• An alternative set of aircraft designed but never mass-produced like the FL1 Airabonita and F5F Skyrocket fighters and TBY Sea Wolf torpedo plane nd B-19 and B-35 bombers.
• All five Montana class battleships.
• Two additional units of the Iowa class laid down but not completed.
• Two additional North Carolina-class battleships FDR chose not to order in the 1930’s to appease GOP deficit hawks.
• Two additional Yorktown-class carriers FDR chose not to order in the 1930’s to appease GOP deficit hawks.
• Four of the original North Carolina design with 14-inch guns.
• All four additional Constellation-class battle cruisers, converted to aircraft carriers.
• Six of the projected XCV conversions of passenger liners into front-line aircraft carriers.
• The gigantic liner Normandie, converted into an 80,000-ton aircraft carrier.
• The projected flight deck cruisers.
• Four of the proposed 1940 super heavy cruisers.
• Four of the proposed 1939 anti-aircraft cruisers.
• Four of the proposed small light cruiser of 1938.