US forces enter from the south along the track. The Japanese are hidden in the Arctic Hills. After 30 mins, they come under attack from Japanese mortar fire.

Travel is slow from the cold weather. The Americans continue down the track and at the 90 minute mark begin to head for the hills.

The Americans spread out and begin to uncover the hidden Japanese. At the 2 hour mark the first of the American infantry is eliminated.

As the Americans close in, 2 US platoons are eliminated by Japanese assault! The fighting is fierce as the Americans close in. The Japanese charge out of their dug-in position and survive multiple “45-power” DF attacks, they banzai and 2 more American platoons are lost! At the 4 hour mark, the Casualty count is 11-2 in the Japanese favour.

A third Japanese leader is killed and only one (still hidden) remains. The lack of leadership puts an end to the Japanese charges and over the next hour the Japanese begin to fall. At the five hour mark the Casualty count is now 11-6.

Americans start to trudge north through the Arctic Hills, but travel is slow. The Americans overrun the scattered Japanese and a lucky artillery strike takes out the Japanese mortar. With just over an hour remaining time is running short, as there are still 2 Japanese platoons hiding.

US continues north and with 45mins to go they stumble across the last of the Japanese. Americans take out a scattered Japanese half platoon, but the Japanese banzai attack again!

Americans are disrupted and demoralized and they are unable to rally and counter-attack quick enough. Time runs out.

JAPANESE VICTORY!!!

Aftermath

This was actually almost a draw. It would be quite hard for the Americans to win. For Japanese victory they need to inflict more casualties, and the final casualty count was 12-11!

A combination of Muskeg, Arctic Hills and Cold Weather really make travel slow for the Americans. There just wasn’t enough time for them to fulfil their goal. The Americans have 11 INF/HMG platoons to the 7 Japanese ones. If they had a few more men and another hour or so, this could be a very close battle.

Scenario Rating 2/5 – I’m almost tempted to give this a 3/5, but the similarity with scenarios 2,3,4,5 push it to a 2.