Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #12: The Outskirts of Seoul

Ok, a large urban slugfest scenario, actually about the right size. Years ago, I thought I would love a Stalingrad type PG game but after playing many urbane PG battles and realizing that it would be two maps of nothing but city and assault type combat I have changed my mind a bit. With that said, this was the perfect size urbane scenario to fight through.

After the South Koreans setup and with a major river dividing the city, I thought it would be a difficult task to undertake but I have two North Korean engineers’ counters, artillery, lots of armor and air-support, so I went at it.

I led with my 6 counters or 12 steps of NKPA T34/85 tanks, pulled them adjacent to the ROK units, even with their weak 57mm AT-Guns defending. I flanked with both engineer units out of harmful range of ROK fire and setup two crossing points one in the east and the other in the west, with two forces of NKPA units to follow the engineers. After softening up the center with armor, the center group of Infantry attacked the city. The flanking Infantry came in on the back side of the ROK city fortress attacking Seoul on all sides. The North Korean get to enjoy air-support the whole scenario in one of the few scenarios in the series. After a bloody struggle the NKPA controlled Seoul for the victory. But even with that, a few dice rolls here or there and the South Korean could have won.