Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #38: Hadong Road Junction

A fun scenario to play, the North Koreans setup pretty far back on map 94 and closer up on map 95 with two lines of defense, one on each map, this gives them time to dug-in before the Americans approach. The Americans enter the map in single file on the road or adjacent to it until they are fired on or spot the enemy.

The U.S. forces keep their Air Force forward air controller forward but as safe as possible as he is the only officer that can spot for air-support. In hindsight I shouldn’t have separated my two NKPA forces into two lines but kept them together, as the Americans make short work of the first North Korean line and with the four airstrikes, which rolled very well this time around made the difference in the outcome. The North Koreans lost 6 steps and the Americans lost only 1 steps as the Jeep.50 doesn’t count for an American Minor Victory.

The Americans decide to hold off on a general attack on the NKPA second line, as they had used up their air-support and the second force of North Koreans were dug-in on the hills, which means the American might lose their minor victory and the risk was not worth going for a major victory by the overall looks of the battlefield. It was kind of cool using a Jeep75mm but it counts if eliminated, so since it’s kind of weak in DF, I used if for fire support from a distance.

Overall the North Koreans made the mistakes and the Americans didn’t!