Author |
thomaso827
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Method |
Solo |
Victor |
United States |
Play Date |
2014-12-05 |
Language |
English |
Scenario |
Saip012
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US Army for a change, holding as many hexes as possible on the two hills. I put the LTs each with a single platoon of infantry, CPTs with infantry and HMGs, the Major with another infantry and HMG, the COL with the last infantry, the engineer unit and the mortar, and placed the COL and his entourage at the middle of the larger hill top on the big northern hill, building a command group around him, placed a single Cpt with his stack on the northwest 2nd level hill, then the rest holding the southern hill with the Maj holding the hights. Japanese attackers were set up in infantry companies, 2 full and one single step platoons with each LT, the Cpts getting the HMGs, with the 2 HMGs going to the Captain on the northern hill and the single one on the southern hill. I planned for each infantry stack to go into assault as soon as possible, and with the Japanese getting the initiative early they did pretty well, but not well enough to do any damage. HMGs fired first and failed to do any damage, then assault stacks went in and also failed to do damage, while Army defenders rolled several X results. The Japanese finally lost the last of their troops at the northern hill mass but were intent on trying to get as much of the southern hill as possible, and at the bitter end, found themselves not even being able to control a single hex there. If given credit as control for being the last unit to have been present in a hex, then they controlled 2 hexes at the end, but were not present on the hill at all. Big win for the Army.
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