Japenese SER units

[vince hughes]

Unless the scenario is one of those 24 hour plus ones I think building entrenchments in a game to the strength of the ones represented by the counters is a bit optimistic. Just digging out the one man, 5ft deep trenches NOT under fire was a horrendous sweaty chore that we had to do. I can not see fully fortress trenches being built under battle conditions in any but the long games.

SSR's usually give engineers any other special capabilities. Not sure where repairing vehicles can come into the game of PG (unless using the brand new mire rules). Also, clearing forest in a hex representing 200 x 200 square metres during a battle again seems optimistic.

Not having studied much on the Pacific at all I always wondered exactly what the blue SER counters were. If they were so downtrodden and frit of battle, its about time somebody re-wrote the Guadal rules to that effect. Had I used them, I too would be using the +1 assault modifier as it shows no exceptions at all and in fact adds "Of any type" thus cementing Brett's interpretation. I have not checked the OOB's of the scenarios, but does it list these units in ways for example "1st Korean SER Bn". If so, then I guess it could be argued they are Korean or Chinese whatever and not Japanese.