In theory, sticking a map on the back of the Jungle Fighting scenario book was a brilliant idea.

In practice? Avalanche Press went with a map for a tiny spit of land that's used in exactly one scenario. Did I mention that the one scenario was awful?

Extremely low unit densities, long stretches of turns between even solitary activations, rolling and rolling and rolling for turn ends hoping for something to happen...

This brilliant idea lands with a thud and then leaves a foul taste in your mouth.

This is the only PG scenario I've ever packed in early... avoid at all costs, unless you're hell bent on completing your scenario count.

An odd scenario that I had to give a try after reading the special scenario rules a couple of times until I grasped what the overall idea was and dug into it. Not sure why special rule #2 mentions about the Japanese initiative being lowered with step losses when they start with and initiative of zero anyway. The map is on the backside of the supplement but I printed off a hardcopy anyway.

The American and Japanese both have some dice rolling to do to see how the setup begins. After that the Americans must clear the tiny Island of enemy units without more than two steps being eliminated. They take out all the initial Japanese starting forces with only one step loss and then must wait a series of dice rolls until each one of 6 groups of Japanese reinforcement enters, which when they do, the just takeout these piecemeal reinforcements with mass force, each time, then roll to get off the island but I am not sure why I should wait 65 turns for this, when all the Japanese were finished by turn 45.

Well the Americans won this but I can’t recommend the scenario. Jungle Fighting has many more, better scenarios, in fact 41 better ones. This one just didn’t work right even though it was creative.

Author	triangular_cube
Method	Solo
Victor	Japan
Play Date	2023-03-03
Language	English
Scenario	JuFi042

The Japanese won because the marines drowned in their boats. No really. If the units on boarding fail to reach the island at the get go, they have a 50% chance of losing a step, eventually. Americans cant win if they take 2 step losses, Japanese win with 3. 2 marine steps drowned, and 1 was killed on a displacement assault against the SNLF in the government house. I didnt even get to the endless rolling stage of this... bizarre... scenario.