Saipan:LVT's

[campsawyer]

Alan, just wondering but did you roll for Japanese units being disrupted and demoralized from the pre-bombardment in the beginning of the scenario? Use those APCs like halftrack for extra fire power, stack of 3 plus three INF and you have some awesome firepower but that off-board artillery can hurt you. I wanted to simulate the hell on those Saipan Beaches! The Marine's KIA & WIA was huge on that first day.

Yup, I did. Some disrupted some demoralized units, but this only apply to units outside the entrenchments. Given that the Americans have no OBA or fire that can touch the entrenchments, short of assault, I loaded them up with AT, HMG and INF's. Those outside were able to recover in a couple of turns while the Marines were still steaming toward the beaches. In my setup the Japanese had good fire zones for those AT weapons and I deployed two groups of assault groups to some of the weaker areas, but with long range AT fire the 75/88 and 47mm was devastating requiring hits on 8's and 9's. The 37mm were good to with required rolls of 10's. Take out the Colonel and now one group was stuck at sea right in range of the 47mm and a 37mm. Both scored hits on LVT-4's so there goes 6 steps. Nasty nasty stuff. Worse dice rolls could have gone the Americans way.