Scenario one was played in a form of PBEM with our glorious host, so will count as a non-solo game.

So What Happened ! I hear you cry

Unlike the previous poster, the Japanese did not trudge across the muskeg bogs towards Attu's town, but instead, thundered at great speed along the track and reached the edge of the town in good order after 4 turns.

The Americans tried their best to fight a fallback defence but as each of them eventually became DIS or DEM they were charged down by frenzied Japanese infantrymen and harried by MG platoons as well as off-shore cruisers harrassing them. In this way the Americans were slowly eliminated.

Not too much going on in this scenario really. If I were to try a US tactic, I would perhaps also advance up the track toward the enemy in groups of 2 x platoons with a hex gap between each group. Then, jostle around here and there to make the pre-plotted cruiser guns get a hard time zeroing in on them, and hold that track so that the Japanese can only go through the boreal muskeg or charge frontally. It still probably won't work, but 3 x Jap INF attacking 2 x US INF with a US INF nearby as assault reserve may string it out longer ?

Casualties : Japanese 2 steps, Americans 10 steps

It nearly got a 1, but probably attained a two for the fun part of 'chatting' with Andy as well as the novelty part of my first outing with Japanese on the board ?