Leyte 1944, Scenario Ten: Violet Beach

This one is good learning amphibious scenario as the Japanese aren’t too strong at the beach with their first group of Japanese units but heavier with their second group of units further west. So the Americans can eliminate the smaller speed bump of Japanese on the beach map fairly easy before meeting the heavy concentration of Japanese troops and get their beach landing skills down.

The American landed on map 80 and with heavy naval and air-support sweep the Japanese unit there away and then charged into map 100 where the Japanese had some nasty 47mm anti-tank guns in entrenchments waiting for them. The Americans charged forward with their armor and the Japanese rolled well on the dice and over a few turns eliminated one step of M4 Sherman Tanks, two steps of LVT (A)-4s and two steps of LVT (A)-1s which all count as double before the guns were taken out.

In the end the Americans controlled all three entrenchments, exited 13 steps off the west edge of the map and just barely had a two to one step advantage in steps lost. The Japanese lost 22 step to the Americans 11, very close for that last objective. In fact, the Americans lost 10 steps of armor and only one step of Infantry after the dice and dust settled. A Major American Victory! The Japanese defensive were kind of poorly setup strategically and should have been more concentrated in hindsight.