Holy-moly, don’t overlook this scenario it a tough fight and with different victory condition for each side. City fighting in the Pacific but it is more than that as the Marines must take control of the Garapon city but also the beaches surrounding the city with heavy weapons and the adjacent hill which has a cave causing problems for the Marines below. The terrain is altered a bit but the Marine look to have a powerful armored-Infantry fighting force but if they don’t get their ducks in a row, it won’t matter!

The Marines approach from the south in an armor convoy with some Infantry flanking to the right in the fields and jungle and the LVT (A)-1’s & LVT (A)-4’s flanking to the left and in the ocean in some cases. I thought I could just blast a hole through the center with my Sherman, Stuart, Satan, and M3/75’ armor and kept going but the Japanese were not helpless and the nasty 47mm and 75/88 guns had a bite to stay away from. I kept it close until stack of three Japanese units rolled a 2 making a 3X result against a stack of American Infantry and then a similar stack of Japanese rolled a 12 in another situation, not to mention that 47mm AT Gun started taking a toll on the LVT A’s. The Americans did their damage as well, finally taking out the 75/88 gun but after the Japanese score 19 or more points, the best the Americans can do is a draw but I kept playing but the end result was a Japanese Major victory because of 3 or 4 major mistakes as the Americans. I quit with the Japanese having 37 points and the Americans having 17 points. The Americans do not get points for eliminated enemy units in this scenario. A fun one to play, especially if I plan it better next time as the American side!