KWCA047 
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Guarding the Western Rampart Counter Attack #48 |
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| (Defender) North Korea | vs |
South Korea
(Attacker)
United States (Attacker) |
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| Scenario Rank: of |
| Parent Game | Counter Attack |
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| Historicity | Historical |
| Date | 1950-09-24 |
| Start Time | 08:00 |
| Turn Count | 26 |
| Visibility | Day |
| Counters | 141 |
| Net Morale | 0 |
| Net Initiative | 1 |
| Maps | 2: 112, 113 |
| Layout Dimensions | 86 x 28 cm 34 x 11 in |
| Play Bounty | 189 |
| AAR Bounty | 171 |
| Total Plays | 1 |
| Total AARs | 1 |
| Battle Types |
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| Hill Control |
| Inflict Enemy Casualties |
| Road Control |
| Conditions |
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| Entrenchments |
| Off-board Artillery |
| Randomly-drawn Aircraft |
| Smoke |
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| Counter Attack | Base Game |
| Introduction |
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The 1st Marine Division planned to attack Seoul from three directions, with one regiment coming the north, west and southeast to assure that the NKPA defenders could not escape. The 5th Marines and ROK 1st Marine Regiment would strike from the west. Around the elevation known as Hill 105B the NKPA’s 25th Coastal Defense Brigade had dug in with steel-reinforced concrete bunkers expertly sited on reverse slopes. The slipshod 25th Brigade appears to have been heavily reinforced from the training cadres present around Seoul and displayed a high degree of skill in deployment and many modern weapons. |
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A forty-minute air and artillery bombardment damaged some of the North Korean positions, but the Marines still had to advance and dig them out one bunker at a time. Despite massive casualties, the Marines could not drive the North Koreans off the ridge and both regiments halted for the night. The assault resumed the next morning and late in the afternoon the hills finally fell; the two assault battalions of the 5th Marines counted 1,750 enemy dead in their sector alone. |
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| AFV Rules Pertaining to this Scenario's Order of Battle |
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| Chosŏn inmin'gun |
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| Daehanminguk Haebyeongdae |
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| Marine Corps |
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| 1 Errata Item | |
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The 8-3 Marine Infantry counter appears in most of the Saipan 1944 and Marianas 1944 scenarios, replacing the 10-3 DF valued Marine counters for those scenarios and is currently published in the most recent Saipan printing. (JayTownsend
on 2015 Dec 26)
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| Korean War: Counter-Attack, scenario #48: Guarding the Western Rampart | ||||||||||||
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Korean War: Counter-Attack, scenario #48: Guarding the Western Rampart I believe this is the biggest scenario in Counter-Attack as far as counter numbers, if not, pretty close. This one took me a couple of days of off and on play to complete but was well worth it. The US Marines and ROK Marines have a difficult task of fighting a tough dug-in North Korean 25th Brigade and 78th Independent Regiment and an assortment of support weapons/units, dug-in, entrenched and bunkered in. The US Marines will need to work closely with the ROK Marine counter-part to achieve three or four of their victory condition objectives. They will also have a good support of off-board artillery for the whole scenario and six turns of air-support but the NKPA have fair share of off-board artillery as well. It looks to be a bloody battle! As I mentioned, this took me a couple of days to play out, so I won’t go into blow by blow battle details, as I really got more involved into playing this scenario then recording a detailed AAR this time around but I used the air support and artillery to weaken enemy entrenchments and bunkers positions and tried to setup engineer and bazooka units when possible to assist. I hardly kept track of my casualties at one point, as they kept going up and on both sides. The Americans were able to achieve three out of four victory conditions for a minor victory but barley! They cleared only one east-west road, cleared the hills on the west side of the river but were not able to clear two 40 meter hill hexes on the east side of the river and just barely made the 125% casualty comparison if I counted correctly. Without the ROK Marines help and the VT Fuze ammo, it would not of happened, at least not in 26 turns. A lot went on in this scenario, even a Marine Capt. deserted in this one, as the heat of battle was extreme in this scenario. If you have a few days or more to leave this one setup it is a great scenarios to play a few hours and come back to it later in the day, or over a few days just to get a new perspective each time you come back to resume play. |
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