A pretty straight forward scenario, the Americans must clear the large hill on map 81 of Japanese and the Japanese must hold out with at least one step until turn 16 and have 2 caves, 4 minefield counters and can dig-in but the Marines have a lot of toys including a Navy Gunboat, Rocket Mk 7 trucks and Sherman tanks.

The Gunboat worked pretty well hitting the Japanese on the north side while the ground forces move in from the south side. The Japanese low morale after 3 weeks of pounding didn’t help their cause much and they were cleared from the hill maybe too historically, losing 6 steps and a Leader while the rest scattered demoralized in all directions even through one of their own minefields that happened to be a decoy. The Americans had one Flame Throwing Engineer demoralized after taking some heavy fire but it was a clear American victory and a good way to end the game. Next time I will have to have better mine placement for the Japanese defenses!