Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #24: Go Back!

Ok it seems simple enough, go back and take as many of those four hills that you lost possession of earlier and eliminate enemy steps as well. The North Koreans have control of the four hills and are spread out in those four locations. The Americans have 16 turns to try and get as many hills back in their possession as possible with each hill being worth five points and one point for each enemy step eliminated as well. The degree of victory is dependent on the points achieved or not.

The Americans enter on the south side and decide to split their force into two groups, as one can concentrate on the two western hills and the other on the two eastern hills, as the NKPA forces are defending all four hills but a couple of the hills can support one another with Direct Fire from their HMG units. They are also dug in and at a higher elevation than the Americans.

Both sides fight hard and both sides lose three steps each but the American also lose one leader and it had to be the highest ranking one. So much for the Lieutenant Colonel! The American managed to take control of two hills but desert one in attempt to take a third and the North Koreans simple reoccupy that hill and the Americans can’t take the third hill and end up only controlling one out of four hills. This gave the North Koreans a Minor Victory with a 10 point difference, 18 to 8. I think I shouldn’t have split my Americans into two forces and maybe hammered each area one at a time. Next time!