The site is for the co-ordination of the St.Louis Area players who are re-creating the Battle of the Coral Sea (WWII) from 0500, May 1, 1942 thru 1900, May 9, 1942. The campaign encompass' the weather, aircraft speed & flight endurance, aircraft & naval detection, supply, and objectives of both sides during the campaign. The naval as well as the land based forces available for the campaign are depicted.

There are exclusive rules, developed by the group, for the 2-hour strategic turns on a hex map of 37.5 stat miles per hex. The area covered on the map is EAST/WEST from Cape Horn, Australia to New Caledonia and NORTH/SOUTH from Townsend, Australia to Kievang, New Ireland...approximately 2 million square miles.

Blue Skies series rules are used for Air-to-air, air-to-ship, air-to-ground encounters.

Seapower Rules are used for ship-to-ship encounters.

Models used are 1/300 scale aircraft and 1/700 scale ships.

History REMADE! In the first campaign, the carriers Soho and Lex were sunk and the Allies were taking a beating on the water when their Cruiser force snuk behind the Jap carrier force and annihilated the Invasion fleet! Game over!!! Meanwhile on land, the airfields at Lae and Rabaul took a pasting by the combined efforts of B17s and B26s.

Campaign Part Deux has seen the players remixed and the rules changed to reflect what we have learned from the first one as well as some new evidence gleaned from two new books on the subject. This campaign has been on-going from May 6, 2006. We are now in game turn 0900-1100 hours, May 7. The carnage in this campaign includes 6 Allied CAs, 2 Allied carriers, and several DDs sunk by the Japanese. Meanwhile, the Allies have been busy by sinking the Shoho by a submarine attack, 4 Jap CAs, 1 moored cruiser in Rabaul, and several DDs...and 1 troop transport in the Invasion fleet! The Allies have all but eliminated the Jap air-bases at Lae and Gasmata. Stay tuned!!

CSIII is coming this Fall 2009.