I can’t get enough of this supplement. I know either you love this one or hate but I love the big open spaces with low unit counts, lots of movement and I can really imagine those desert maps as Alaska’s Aleutian Island terrain. When I saw this scenario, I thought it would be an easy American victory but reading the scenario special rules I said maybe not.

Visibility is very low so the Japanese closed the Americans until the last two hexes. When they are adjacent, they must assault per special rule #5 and they get additional modifier for Banzai attach in assaults, plus higher morale, plus Japanese nationality, plus having leader, plus Engineer if it’s include in the assault. The Americans must blast them before they assault but even when this happens they recover fast with a 9/8 morale. But sides took high casualties for the amount of units involved but the Japanese came out on top with the victory. This one surprised me.