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Ok heres the end of the Buna Pass fight which lasted 26 of 39 turns, my para drop had their HQ killed by turn eleven,they had 7 full roster screens to my 4 and now I find out the japs don't have C&C ???

I got beat up bad,,,these shots are the VH clusters at the end of battle North front first

Central main group

South front group which saw moderate action

Rear south hexes that where mine by turn 14

North rear VH's

And two north to south wideangle shots of the whole picture of action

I didn't have much left, and C&C wouldn't let anything FLANK,minorly withdraw to regroup or entrench to await support!!

Now I did this assault by the book,Having my recce in chevyWA's approching their deploy line and disembarking to cross on foot,probing from covered geography only moving 1 hex every two turns so they get 1 turn to look for enemy positions. After my recon the engineers follow the same path as the scouts loaded on my tanks in single file with the platoon leaders riding leader tank in the middle of their advance line. Next comes the infantry and crew served weapons,loaded in heavy trucks to start the campaign and upgraded eventually to something that can defend itself later and get closer to "line of contact and help with perimeter defence. Now arrty and heavy support like towed AA guns,AT guns or specialty tanks and ammo vehicles are moved up to where the ground units ahead of them have secured and consolidated.

Its now december and we've got a meeting engaugement with a vis of 11 again at BUNA PASS,

doing a small para drop to snuff their HQ hopefully,/and all other forces are mobilized with transport so should be able to race to the VH's fast

my preliminary barrages didn't get many casualties but it slowed the forward enemies elements enough to get some of my force to contact points the first turn they appeared in the north region.

Then at the end of turn 1 their advanceing on the centre VH's

Getting all my engineers off the tanks and into cover, and probing a perimeter with the tanks around the VH's

Pushing them back from Main VH's on turn 2

My turn 2 start

And 3 big shots of the battlefield

Middle where all the action is turn 2 ending!

ANd their back line and HQ VH's

My paras are sanctioned to drop in mass on turn 4 with the LZ being 8 hexes behind their HQ's victory hexes