Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #5: The Korangp’o-ri Position

I was anxious to play Pusan again with the die-cut counters. The Korangp’o-ri Position scenario is still in the very beginning of the Korean War and the South Koreans are in a desperate fight to buy time.

I put some ambushing ROK units forward in two positions on the northern map 95 where the North Korean juggernaut is entering the map. The rest of the South Korean forces are defending the bridges and town hexes on the southern map, map 93 as that is where most of the points are in this scenario. The victory conditions are very interesting for this scenario and should give both sides an interesting fight.

The NKPA entered the map in two areas and were briefly held up by two ambushing groups of ROK units, they could have been better used in the defenses in the south. The American air-force made two appearances but with little effect and could not destroy any NKPA armor.

After the North Koreans converged on main town and bridges on map 93, they came out with a major victory, as the ROKs wasted too much of their needed forces up north and the NKPA crushed the South Koreans with combine arms, of armor, infantry & artillery. It wasn’t without costs, as the NKPA lost 4 INF steps, 2 SMG steps and 1 BA-64 step but the ROKs lost many more steps and the NKPA controlled most of the victory conditions for a clear, major victory. But it was fun scenario to play throughout the turns.