Korean War: Counter-Attack, scenario #2: Who Attacks Whom?

This is a straight forward meeting engagement with each side entering from the opposite ends, north or south and the battle and victory conditions are for the east-west road only, eliminated steps don’t matter. The first couple of turns the Initiative rolls are very important to trying to get your forces to the east-west road first. The North Koreans have one Gaz67 and the U.S. Marines have two Jeeps to race a few units ahead.

This was a slug it out adjacent combat type of battle. Casualties mounted on both sides and I didn’t keep track as they didn’t matter but the Marines have better fire-power for this type of scenario and wore down the NKPA for a minor victory, 13 road hexes to 6. I think if I would have pressed it a little more on the last two turns the Americans would have gotten a major victory.

Sure, a fun play but this is one scenario where I kind of dropped the ball a bit as a Designer, in the victory conditions, as I feel the Marines have a clear advantage. Maybe remove one or two of their WPN units to balance it out a little more. But still, the North Koreans have a chance if they don’t attack across the whole road as I did, as they are too weak for that kind or assault in this scenario. Either way, gaming to more fun than work!