Take It Back PTO (id:#63916)
West of Lunga Ridge, Guadalcanal 1942-09-13 ()
Designer: Adaptation by Perry Cocke
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Balance:
American (USMC)Japanese
44.444444444444%

Overview:

Colonel Edson had set up the 1st Paramarine Battalion on the east side of Lunga Ridge while he deployed his 1st Raider Battalion to the west. On the night of 12 September, leading elements of Major General Kiyotaki Kawaguchi's 35th Infantry Brigade attacked the Raiders, overrunning a platoon, forcing C Company back to the ridge, and bending the Raiders' front line from its east-west alignment to a north-south one. The next morning, two companies of Raiders were ordered to retake the lost positions in a daylight attack.
Attacker: American (USMC) (Companies A and D, 1st Raider Battalion and Company A, 1st Paramarine Battalion)
Defender: Japanese (3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment)  
4.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:14.0 D:8.0
AFVs: A:0 D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: PTO, LJ, interior jungle hexes are Dense Jungle. Kunai is Jungle.
Map Board(s): o
Overlays: NONE
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DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2022-01-05(A) Alberto Pomar vs César Moreno Japanese win
2021-09-15(D) Mark Hatfield vs Phil Japanese winPhil was pretty conservative at the beginning of the scenario, advancing concealed into LOS. I took only mortar shots IIRC, while the bulk of my forces skulked or did a tactical retreat as warranted. I also sprung my HIP trap, which was a frontal placement, and put a hurt on one of his stacks. I was able to stay concealed with a lot my stuff and fall back tactically, and he failed his PMC at the end of turn 3. Don't blame him - I still had the bulk of my force and Japanese don't rout - he just didn't have enough near enough time.
2021-08-30(A) Mark Thompson vs Socks (Japanese) Japanese win

(VASL Log)		USMC captured 3 of 4 victory hexes and 4th and final victory hex came down to CC roll, USMC needed 7 and rolled 11. Great game - essentially a CC slugfest. Americans balked at AFPh shot into a Melee in final VC and it probably cost them the game. A good introduction to SK PTO and concealment.
2021-06-26(D) Pascal Boileau vs Serge Doba Japanese winThe Japanese won by holding the two last victory hexes in the SW part of the map after two furious CC in the last turn. The progression of the US Marines was fast and the Japanese troops didn't try to chalenge them on their way. Instead they pulled back in order to build a fortress surrounding OK2 and OK3 hexes. The plan worked, thanks to the deadly abilities of the Japanese in HtH-CC.
2021-06-26(A) Doba Serge vs Pascal Boileau Japanese win
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Faded 8-1 Rated the scenario2022-05-17 11:15:53
Faded 8-1 Added a playing2022-05-17 11:14:11
apomarbarbeito Added a playing2022-03-10 09:04:04
Thompsonmg(MGT) Added a playing2021-12-29 01:31:22
trailrunner Added a playing2021-08-15 19:42:59
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VASL Log file (SK - S65 - Take It Back (MGT v Socks).vlog)VASL Game LogThompsonmg(MGT)71
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 7.42Votes: 26
Views: 2668
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Estimated Play time: 2.5 hours
Recorded Games: 17
Archive recorded plays:
American (USMC)6
Japanese11
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of January 2022)
Take It Back [Confirmed]
[A] Japanese 10
[D] American 9
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