The other day I wanted to setup and play a quick/small scenario and picked this one, as it can be played in about an hour, with 14 turns and with not too many counters. It also has some interesting units with the Japanese attacking trying to gain control of the east-west road and eliminate American steps as well, with a small number of Marines defending at night.

In my game I took a gamble after the American Sherman tanks already fired on their activation and moved a stack of Japanese Portees and Type 95 Tanks adjacent to the Marine tanks and Infantry units hoping that they would active first but with the nature of the dice the Americans activated first the next turn with the Sherman tanks destroying the Type 95 tanks and one Portee unit and the Infantry taking care of the other Japanese portee. The Japanese basically wasted their whole mechanized force on one turn and left it up to their Infantry units to try and achieve victory unsupported the rest of the game which proved too difficult, giving the Americans a major victory. The early gamble wasn’t worth so next game I’ll use more tactics with this scenario.