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
45.454545454545%

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
2021-06-26(A) Doba Serge vs Pascal Boileau Japanese win
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.
2021-01-24(D) O Ramaille vs Loïc Gourdon Japanese winThe Marines advanced through the jungle and faced determined Japanese defenders. The latter fired volleys of final protective fire that slowed the Marines progression and ambushed several USMC troops in HtH CC. They also skillfully retreated out of LOS of the Marines with a constant objective of slowing down the attack. The Marines eventually controlled 2 objectives, not enough to win the day.
2021-01-02(A) Lee Hyde vs Max Malm Japanese winSketchy map as many LOS’s tend to be blocked on close inspection, little protrusions of jungle across hexsides often blocking across a hexside, as well as standard rule along hexsides of jungle.
Japanese really outnumbered in this but their HtH modifiers are deadly, and a couple of mutual destruction rolls hurt the Raiders. Would have won but for rolling boxcars on the final CC, on a 6:1 attack. C’est la vie.
2021-01-02(A) Lee Hyde vs Max Malm Japanese winSketchy map as many LOS’s tend to be blocked on close inspection, little protrusions of jungle across hexsides often blocking across a hexside, as well as standard rule along hexsides of jungle.
Japanese really outnumbered in this but their HtH modifiers are deadly, and a couple of mutual destruction rolls hurt the Raiders. Would have won but for rolling boxcars on the final CC, on a 6:1 attack. C’est la vie.
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Avg Rating: 7.59Votes: 22
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Estimated Play time: 2.5 hours
Recorded Games: 14
Archive recorded plays:
American (USMC)6
Japanese8
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of November 2021)
Take It Back [Confirmed]
[A] American 9
[D] Japanese 10
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