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ASL: Short AAR Used and Abused

Hey all, Got a chance to play Used and Abused from Recon. . .by Fire yesterday. Very good scenario. I took the Ami's against David Brown's IJA. Basically the IJA has to have more units adjacent to the airfield than the ami's at the end of any game turn. My setup was as follows: 
37L10: ?
  ? 6-6-6
37B9: ?
  ? 6-6-6
14R6: ?
  ? BAZ (44)
  ? 3-4-7
37H10: ?
  ? 8-0
  ? MMG(a)
  ? 6-6-6
  ? 6-6-6
37N10: ?
  ? BAZ (44)
  ? 3-4-7
14Q5: ?
  ? BAZ (44)
  ? 3-4-7
14O4: ?
  ? 9-1
  ? 6-6-6
  ? .50-cal
  ? 6-6-7
14I2: ?
  ? BAZ (44)
  ? 3-4-7
37N9: ?
  ? 8-1
  ? MMG(a)
  ? 6-6-6
  ? 6-6-6
37Q7: Sniper
14N3: ?
  ? MTR (a)
  ? 5-4-6
Basically, I gave the Japanese my right flank while maintaining my left and center. I planned to hold the jungle line as long as possible and then withdraw onto the airfield with what I could. Turn one saw David run up to my positions--no action. Turn two and things started getting hot. First, I blew a baz shot, allowing David to isolate a baz toting hs with infantry and tanks. Luckily for me, his infantry pinned and were not able to cc the encircled hs. In DFPh, the baz toasts the ha-go. Elsewhere, the IJA took the western building without loss. In the bottom of two, however, my prep fire kiaed a squad in the open on that side, significantly reducing the threat over there.

The next few turns were a dogfight. The IJA managed to get around the ami left with 2 hs (after a bunch of step reducing). The two remaining tanks burst onto the airfield through the ami right; it's tough to hit moving small targets from 3 hexes away. By the end of the game, all the tanks had died, but they had prevented me from doing much reinforcing. The only units I ended up adjacent to the airfield was a 667 and a heroic 9-1 with 50cal. Well, they got encircled and broke; the 9-1 took the 50 cal then broke it and then x'ed it. I blew the end game as well--missed putting a squad and leader next to the airfield in my last turn. They probably wouldn't have survived, but they might have.

Pretty much a nice fight. I can see how it could go south real quick for the Americans, although I think it was a combination of great smoke from his mortars and perseverance that won David the game for him. I made some bone head plays as well, but David played the good odds mostly.

I highly recommend it.

Brian



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