Author	triangular_cube
Method	Solo
Victor	United States
Play Date	2023-02-13
Language	English
Scenario	JuFi015

This time the Americans get to try and take a different entrenchment line, this time on a bald hill. They get similar OBA restrictions but 1 extra barrage before the game. They also get morale 8 which makes everything much more possible.

The Japanese are thin on the ground for the frontage they have to defend, so they attempt to make the most of their entrenchments, placing them forward at the suspected entry points filled up with their HMGs and 70s. On the wings they place two counterattacking stacks to try the same tactics that usually pay off. Close assault is still their most powerful weapon. Their VCs have a kill count to achieve, and they will be aggressive towards it. Playing passively will just give the USA more time.

Americans start in two groups but converge on the northern most outcropping after pounding the hill with all their OBA on approach. The first turn they lose as step to a good OP fire roll but otherwise get their units in position, including 2 3XHMG stacks adjacent to the outcropped entrenchment. They continue to be patient until they get some decent rolls and break the Japanese back. Having very few men in the hills (reduced further by the counterattack strategy), each step loss is felt. Over time the first entrenchment falls, then the second. At this point they have little opposition and brute force the rest.

The counterattacks didnt work for once. The Americans kept rolling 5s and 6s and the Japaense 3s. just shy of the step loss results. For the first time in a while the strategy fell flat on its face.

The Americans clear the hill having taken only 3 step losses, for a win.

This one seemed far better than the preceding Mt Austin scenarios, despite similar concepts.