Leyte 1944, Scenario Twenty-Eight: Texas Horse Soldiers

The 112th Cavalry Regiment bought their amphibious tank support inland to help eliminate stubborn Japanese resistance and it paid off! One small errata to note in the victory conditions, the 80 meter hill should say 60 meter hill hexes which are on map 100.

The Americans have three victory objective and one is to clear both east-west roads of enemy units on both maps and their forces are big enough to split up. The biggest force went after the 60-meter hill mass on map 100 which included clearing it of two Japanese entrenchments and enemy units. The American lost a two-step LVT(A)4 unit early but once the enemy 70mm and 20mm guns were knocked out the remaining LVT(A)4s were free to stack together in three unit monster gun stack which could fire on dug-in Japanese Infantry from the safety of two hexes away and blast a path clear within a few turns.

The American achieve all three of their victory objectives including the 2 to 1 advantage in step loses. The Japanese lost 14 steps while the American only lost 6 step but won a Major Victory.