Korean War: Counter-Attack, scenario #1: Head to Head

Ok, I’ll do a shorter AAR on this scenario. This is a meeting engagement thus the Head to Head title. The Americans come on from the east and the North Korean from the west but the victory conditions all depend on the Americans occupying either all of the east-west road for a major victory or everything east from hex 0504 which extends pretty deep into the NKPA territory, giving the NKPA an advantage but is off-set somewhat by a larger off-board artillery then the NKPA and two turns of airstrikes.

Both side’s active and try to move as many units forward as fast as they can, with vehicles, armor and motorcycle infantry racing ahead. Both sides get in range of each other’s armor but the North Koreans activate first on the next two turns and blow apart most of the American M4/76s and M24s with T34/85s and Su76 AT fire, leaving the Americans to battle it out, toe to toe with their Infantry against the NKPA Infantry but having units farther down the road then the Americans, to stall the American infantry, the NKPA Infantry behind can dig-in on the road, which they did. The North Koreans were able to dug-in units on road hexes 0504 and 0505 as well as a couple of supporting hexes and stalled the American Army with their forward units.

Casualties’ mater not in this scenario which turned very bloody but even with the larger off-board artillery then the North Koreans, the American stalled and could not control either road objective, victory condition by the end of the scenario. On one high note an American P-51 destroyed a NKPA BTR-40 unit with rocket fire which was cool but still the Americans lost this scenario. Next time I’ll have to be more careful with my American armor to start off the scenario.