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Bottcher's Corner PTO (id:#60979)
(Schwerpunkt #16 ID: SP190)   [next]   [previous]
Buna Village, New Guinea 1942-12-05 (7 others)
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Designer: Mike Augustine
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
AmericanJapanese
51.851851851852%

Overview:

Elements of Yasuda & Tsukioka Butai attack elements of the American 2nd Battalion, 126th Infantry, 32nd Division led by a stubborn 10-2 leader, Herman Bottcher. Following the December 5, 1942 assault by American troops, Bottcher volunteered to lead a group to drive a wedge into the Japanese flank towards the beach at Buna. With a dozen men, he crawled through a swamp. After hours of combat using their Thompson submachine guns and throwing grenades, the group made it to the beach and dug in. On the beach, they claimed to have killed 40 Japanese and wounded a dozen more. They fought off attacks for seven days, dragging back abandoned enemy machine guns to use. Before being relieved, his party claimed to have killed a total of 120 Japanese. The rest of the 32nd Division was able to advance to the beach, putting a wedge between the defending Japanese forces. Wounded twice in the battle, his first wound put an arm in a sling. His second wound saw him relieved from combat. General Eichelburger crawled out to his position to congratulate him and awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross (DFC) and a field promotion to Captain.
Attacker: American (2nd Battalion, 126th Infantry, 32nd Division)
Defender: Japanese (Yasuda & Tsukioka Butai, 14th & 15th Construction Units, 144th Infantry Regiment and Kiowai Battalion)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:10.5 D:17.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0
Type 89 Heavy Grenade-Launcher

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: PTO (G.1), Brush: Marsh/Swamp, Ocean: Shallow. A: 10-2 SMC Stealthy
Map Board(s):
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ASL Action Pack # 247
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ASL 13 - Rising Sun (2021)35
ASL 13 - Rising Sun (2021)47
ASL Action Pack # 6 A Decade of War3a
ASL 8 - Code of Bushido35
Overlays: 1
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2019-11-09(D) Richard Jenulis vs Michael Erskine American winWest Coast Rumble 2019 (Round Two)
2012-06-24(A) Paul Legg vs Stuart Brant American winDouble One 2012
2010-10-08(A) Richard Jenulis vs Anthony Flanagan Japanese winASLOK 2010
2010-10-06(A) Peter Palmer vs Mark Pitcavage Japanese win[Imported from ROAR]
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Hutch Modified the misc. rules2025-05-05 16:37:25
Hutch Modified the gps location2025-05-05 16:36:04
Michel Bongiovanni Uploaded a VASL file2025-05-05 16:03:29
Michel Bongiovanni Uploaded an AAR2025-05-05 16:02:39
hoxson1 Modified the Defender's Guns2024-09-25 18:37:54
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 7.33Votes: 3
Views: 4428
To-Play list count: 2
Estimated Play time: 3.8 hours
Recorded Games: 4
Archive recorded plays:
American2
Japanese2
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Bottcher's Corner
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[A] American 12
[D] Japanese 11
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