Turn #... I forgot
So this is a screenshot of another PBEM match ongoing:

- Turn Counter.png (255.73 KiB) Viewed 1201 times
This is a good opportunity to highlight that the devs implemented a
new turn counter added as a tool tip highlight if you mouse hover over the in game date in the upper right hand corner. It was released yesterday with v0.00.05. For me it is just perfect: elegant, discreet, not too many words, not too few, not ruining the previous design with the date, clear and understandable. I will now use it every time I play. And so will other players as I was told that this feature has been awaited by some for several years.

- The Japanese Wall.png (1.5 MiB) Viewed 1201 times
On Saipan, the US captured the airfield in the south of the island. Is the south totally secured? Not sure because I have not 'painted' entirely the southern hexes to the US colour. And by experience (cf. Iwo Jima vs AI), I know that some isolated enemy troops can suddenly show up in my back. I just bet that there will be none and move my troops west and east towards the middle of Saipan and I progress along the coastlines to move faster. I would have preferred to join my forces but it would have taken too much time to cross the mountainous area where movement is slowed down and resources scarce.
There were many casulaties in the previous fights so I have to be cautious even if I have naval support from my CVL and BB. And suddenly the fog of war vanishes and lets appear the japanese
Wall assembled by my opponent:
OldCrowBalthazor the Great! I've seen walls (front lines) like that before in wargaming screenshots but this is the first one I face for real. That's where resides the interest to play with a human because I'm not sure the AI would have been capable to do that in this scenario? At least it did not when I played in single player mode. There is not a single hole, even in the hills.
How do I deal with that?
On the west coast, maybe I made a mistake: my HQ is not protected on its right flank but I have estimated that it is unlikely that the japs would advance a unit ahead of the wall. On the other hand, as a rule of thumb, I often position my HQ very close to my front line units to grant them a bonus in attack. So I'm thinking of
Robert24 who talked in another thread about the intricacies of decision making. By the way, Rob, many thanks for shifting the Iwo Jima map so that there is more space in the south.