Leyte 1944, Scenario Twenty-Seven: Kilay Ridge

Interesting scenario, the Japanese are attacking at night with about a 3 to 1 advantage. I Japanese didn’t start out very well but recovered quickly and started assaulting hexes in American lines and kept feeding in new units when some would become disrupted or demoralized. They had to drag their 70mm gun unit down the trail with an infantry unit which took about five turns to get into position. The Americans get a small reinforcement group on turn five but instead of defending the road they came to the aid of fellow American units fighting it out in assaults and the Japanese have the advantage in this type of combat, especially when they have the numbers advantage.

I thought the Japanese could get 1 or 2 of their victory objectives but they got all three for a Major Japanese Victory. Some good dice rolls helped and the American shouldn’t have tried to defend both the east-west road and the 60mm hill hexes at the same time, this spread them out too thin. Defending one of them might have given them a minor victory. Next time!

Errata for this scenario: The Japanese setup second.

Under the victory condition for the Japanese it should say all 60-meter hexes are Japanese controlled at the end of play not American.