Leyte 1944, Scenario Twenty-Nine: Thanksgiving Day

This a 12 turn night battle but with a three hex visibility and the Japanese have twice the force as the Americans with a nice 3 x 16 off-board artillery support. The Japanese have only two objectives, to eliminate 4 or more American steps and clear the east-west road, either one will give them a victory, both a major victory.

It didn’t start out well for the Japanese that poked their head over the first ridge but after that, led by a massive artillery barrage the Japanese swarmed the remaining American positions, clearing the east-west road and eliminating 6 American steps for their two steps and a leader lost, for a Major Japanese victory. The Americans lost 3 steps alone to artillery fire, 1 step to direct fire and 2 steps to assault combat. The first three turns didn’t go that well but the next nine did.