Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #32, All So New!

I played a couple smaller scenarios this morning and this was one of them. Of course I used the corrected map setup from the second release of this game. The Americans have to exit five steps off the south edge of the map to win and rivers swollen due to heavy rain so they try to rush their units south but the North Koreans come in on both the western and eastern edges of the maps to cut them off and cut them down.

At first the Americans try to avoid combat and rush south but there is no way to avoid being tangled up in combat in this situation or your units will be grounded down to nothing. It turns into a chest match of movement and combat with the Americans, with a lower morale taking the worst of it. Even with the M24 tank reinforcements rushed in from the south, getting ambushed and assaulted on a forest road hex, losing a step and being of little help. By turn 13 I called the game a NKPA victory and no American steps exited the southern edge of the map and they had lost 8 steps counting the tank step, which left only 6 steps left in a mostly demoralized of leaderless state.

Clearly I was impatient with my American attempt to exit the southern edge of the map and should have maybe held back and organized some better attacks before attempt to flee south and maybe it would have been a closer match. The North Koreans did lose two steps but recovered quickly with their 8/6 morale.