I really like the design! Wouldn't mind a tshirt with it.
The lid cover only shows a part of the complete painting. I've seen a picture of the full painting somewhere in this forum some time ago. The part on the left in which some Japanese soldiers are hit and going down is not shown - probably because it does not fit to the format of the box.If someone asked me "Are those soldiers in Tunis? Rome? Myitkyina?", based purely on the picture, I would not know.
The lid cover only shows a part of the complete painting. I've seen a picture of the full painting somewhere in this forum some time ago. The part on the left in which some Japanese soldiers are hit and going down is not shown - probably because it does not fit to the format of the box.
I checked, but I shouldn't have: from the positions of the soldiers, it was pretty obvious any Japanese would be to the right...The lid cover only shows a part of the complete painting. I've seen a picture of the full painting somewhere in this forum some time ago. The part on the left in which some Japanese soldiers are hit and going down is not shown - probably because it does not fit to the format of the box.
I had that thought as well.(Might also be that MMP don't want to have dying charaters pictured on the box - it's OK to show soldiers, it's a wargame after all; but the real result of war, people dying, is maybe a little less OK...)
Some of the ACW modules that MMP releases have dead bodies on the covers. But they are lost in all the detail. They are pictures showing broad scenes of the battle.Pegasus Bridge cover is probable the closest with Dan Brotheridge leading the charge to be hit in the next few seconds. The soldier who fired the Very Pistol was the first casualty of D-Day.