I went back and forth on the rating for this, between 3 and 2. There's no maneuvering in this at all, since the Japanese start out entrenched and most of the Americans set up adjacent to them. If you like straight out assaults vs entrenched troops, you'll like this one.

There is no draw in this scenario, either one side wins or the other. The Japanese won by eliminating the required number of American steps. This one may favor the Japanese (or maybe it was my die rolling). It's really hard to put a dent in them, but the Japanese force is pretty small and therefore fragile. Some better die rolling for the Americans would've reduced the Japanese to where they couldn't really hurt the U.S., allowing the Americans to assault for the win.

Author	triangular_cube
Method	Solo
Victor	Japan
Play Date	2023-02-18
Language	English
Scenario	JuFi027

I've said almost everything there is to say about the general setups within the GIFU positions over the last 8 Mt Austin AARs. This time the Japanese are thinner yet on the ground, the Americans get a healthy amount of artillery, and are in position to strike early. The thinner Japanese leave far fewer threats on the board, so this is very much a scenario of parking fire groups adjacent in the jungle cover and pouring fire in until the Japanese wither away. The Japanese get one heavy entrenchment bodied by an HMG and 70 that keep the Americans away a bit, lest they roll well and cause a step loss. They also have a x3 INF stack that they can counter with if an opening exists. Once these two hexes are subdued either by masses of DF or OBA then the rest of it falls quickly.

Americans push early and often, having a more lenient causualty limit, and a job to do. Japanese via DF demoralize a few INF in the southern approach which flee westward and lose 2 steps to OP fire from the Japanese heavy trench. A counter attack later in the day from the central counter attack step gets the other 2 steps for a win. The target trenches in the West end up in American hands. If not for the good roll against fleeing dem'd troops this would have been an American win.

Of the GIFU scenarios, this one was one of the closer ones, but there are probably still better uses of your time than playing these dig out the Japanese while limiting losses JF scenarios.