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Foothills of Mount Tipo Pale Saipan 2 #24 |
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| (Defender) Japan | vs | United States (Attacker) |
| Formations Involved | ||
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3rd Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment |
| United States |  |
2nd Marine Regiment |
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| Parent Game | Saipan 2 |
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| Historicity | Historical |
| Date | 1944-06-22 |
| Start Time | 09:30 |
| Turn Count | 20 |
| Visibility | Day |
| Counters | 36 |
| Net Morale | 0 |
| Net Initiative | 0 |
| Maps | 1: 82 |
| Layout Dimensions | 43 x 28 cm 17 x 11 in |
| Play Bounty | 162 |
| AAR Bounty | 168 |
| Total Plays | 1 |
| Total AARs | 1 |
| Duplicates | Saip022 |
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| Inflict Enemy Casualties |
| Entrenchment Control |
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| Entrenchments |
| Randomly-drawn Aircraft |
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| Saipan 2 | Base Game |
| Introduction |
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The Marine offensive would involve both divisions advancing side-by-side, with plentiful support from the 18 artillery battalions now ashore and in place. Second Marine Division faced Mount Tipo Pale in the exact center of its sector, a fearsome defensive position of woods, brush, and rocky slopes, with numbers caves that the Japanese had turned into small fortresses. The 2/2 Marines moved up a ravine well-covered by fire from those cave emplacements. |
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The Japanese held firm, losing a few positions but keeping the Marines from advancing out of the ravine and on to the peak of Mount Tipo Pale. The Japanese clung to their caves for two more days, forcing the Americans to bend their line around them, and greatly slowing the overall progress of 2nd Marine Division. They managed to withdraw in good order, and continue the fight further to the north. |
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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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| Saipan 2nd Edition, scenario #24: Foothills of Mount Tipo Pale | ||||||||||||
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Saipan 2nd Edition, scenario #24: Foothills of Mount Tipo Pale In this one, the Marines finally had a prefect assault of the big hill mass with the 80-meter hill center. They conquered it and the two entrenchments and had air-support as well. The Japanese didn’t react very will nor have a defensive position that was outstanding and the Marines only lost two steps and achieved a major victory. I have a better plan for the next scenario where the Japanese use map 82. One thing I noticed, the rewrite of this scenario, it calls for 4 x SER from the Japanese mix of counters but there is only 3 of these counters, so I used a Japanese ENG counter to fill the missing SER, as they have the same values, but not using the ENG special attributes. |
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