The Korean War Series Project!

[JayTownsend]

Small AAR:

Korean War: Variant Scenario: The Reservoir Scenario!

Not wanting to wait for the Korean War: Intervention game I created this variant scenario from the Korean War: Counter-Attack and Kursk South Flank games. They were the best fit to use the Soviet Guard counters from and since I had two set of South Flank counters, the original thin laser counters and the newer die-cut counters, I now keep one set in the Counter-Attack box, to represent Chinese units for playtesting and variant scenario play.

The American Marines setup up on map 113 but decide to defend only one 60 meter hill hex, to concentrate their defenses in one tight circle around one major hill hex instead of two. The Major Leader counter situated on the center could then activate every adjacent hex around the 60 meter hex in one activation. The Chinese rolled a two on the dice on their first activation, so they entered on the west side of both maps instead on the north side of map 115.

The U.S. Marines are all dug-in, so I only put a few dug-in markers as a reminder, so not to clog up the map. The Chinese loses don’t matter so they surround the Marine hill defenses like the Little Big Horn but the Marines have the elevation and dug-in advantage as well as some off-board artillery and nice dice rolls to stem the Chinese horde. Only the weaker south side perimeter of the Marines line budges a little bit. The Chinese loses I didn’t keep track of, as they didn’t matter in the victory conditions and were large but the Marines lost only 6 steps; 2 x 81mm, 1 x Jeeps .50 cal, 2 x INF, 1 x 75RR gun and 1 x LT and kept passion of the 60 meter hill for a clear American victory.

Ok now I got that carving/fix out of my system somewhat!