Buckley's Block PTO (id:#62916)
(ASL Journal #12 ID: J189)   [next]   [previous]
Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island 1944-01-13 ()
Designer: Darrell Anderson
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Balance:
JapaneseAmerican (USMC)
47.014925373134%

Overview:

The Marines had solidly established their presence on Cape Glouchester, secured their initial objectives, and continued to push south and east. A major campaign objective was Hill 660. Confident that Hill 660 would be taken a detachment from the Weapons Company of 7th Marines was sent to cut off any Japanese retreat along a coastal trail. Soon after the sounds of battle died down from Hill 660, the first Japanese scouts were sighted as they tried to rejoin their comrades to the east.
Attacker: Japanese (141st Infantry Regiment, 51st Division)
Defender: American (USMC) (Weapons Company, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:12.0 D:6.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:1
M3 GMC

Guns: A:0
Type 89 Heavy Grenade-Launcher x 2
D:1
M3A1 37mm AT Gun

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: PTO (G.1), Wet EC (B25.5), Mud (E3.6), Falling Rain (E3.51), NQ (A20.3)
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-06-10(A) Rob Schmitt vs Mitch Davis American (USMC) winClose game till last two turns when USMC dice got hot as Japanese were running for the board exit.
2025-04-10(A) Andy Beaton vs Bruce StevensonD Japanese win3 hrsDice were in favour of the US, except for one roll where a Japanese LMG took out the American halftrack. Without that lucky shot, the US would have won.
2025-03-13(D) rene cote vs mrosberg American (USMC) win
2025-02-08(A) Mark Thompson vs Herbert Heyman American (USMC) win
2025-02-07(A) Peter Palmer vs Dan LeporeD Japanese winFriday Night Fights Game 4
This was very enjoyable. we took it easy pace wise but still got through it in a single session. Mud is the great leveller for the Japanese love of manoeuvre and the first two turns were trying to get into position for the mid game.
Unfortunately I completely muffed my positioning of my leaders and had units out of position and couldn't buy a deploy roll to save myself . Dan was mounting a great fall back defense and I just couldn't get momentum. Rain went heavy on Turn 2 and I was able to get into a pivotal yet inconclusive HTH CC - and then the US HMG malfing allowed me to start threatening the southern route.
The game really turned on Turn 4 when my CCs went in my favour apart from one. The ATG Canister only got one shot before I CCed the crew and that was only versus an adjacent unit so much less effective than normal. I really started to put some hurt on the US with casualty CVP, and then I captured the gun, blew it it up firing it, and was able to force a late redeployment from the TD.

Mistakes were made by both sides, I forgot to attempt two TH heroes in the movement phase and so DFF pinned both units. Dan was in a way too disciplined D1F wise and missed an great opportunity to lay a firelane down the exit hexrow. I did manage to keep some squads intact for the late game which mean striping finally helped. while I accumulated 22 VP, it was very tight right up until that last turn, especially with both Halftrack hunting half squads getting pinned right next to the M3 GMC in DFF (see missed TH opportunities.)

Enjoyable game, awesome opponent, great ASL session.
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Avg Rating: 6.96Votes: 46
Views: 5439
To-Play list count: 4
Estimated Play time: 2.8 hours
Recorded Games: 40
Archive recorded plays:
Japanese22
American (USMC)18
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Buckley's Block [Confirmed]
[A] American 41
[D] Japanese 53
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