Over the New Year's Day weekend I played the new Multi-Man Publishing (MMP) game Tide at Sunrise of the Russo-Japanese 1904-1905 war but  without the optional naval rules with my friend and the owner of the game Tom Swider.

The real war was mostly an imperial dispute over control of Manchuria centering on the port of Port Arthur in the south east and several cites in the north western side of the map. The Russians begin in control of most of the map but the Japanese…