Mindanao 1945, scenario #7: Defiant Stand at Maramag

I felt the Americans had enough forces to accomplish their three objectives this time compared to the previous scenario but the Japanese setup two entrenchments on the north-south road plus the town hex. Add to this, to the fact that the Japanese have a morale of 8/8, so you pretty much need to eliminate them. The Americans had the one objective of eliminating a two to one advantage in casualties but couldn’t clear the north-south road in time, as on the last turn the Japanese move an Infantry unit on the far northern road hexes and the Americans never attempted to exit units, so only achieving one out of three victory objects, the Japanese win a minor victory. I feel if there was one more turn, they would have cleared the north-south road I also feel, they maybe should have gave up ten turns earlier on clearing the road and exited units but the terrain was really rough but the Japanese would have had to pull units out of defending the road to go block American units flanking them. A close scenario no matter what.