Pacific Fury at Rod's

I was the US Marines, invading an unnamed heavily defended island in the Pacific.  I had tanks, artillery, and air support, and a plethora of heavy weapons.  The task was to take the village in 8 turns.  Opposing was rod, with a hidden deployment of sneaky Japanese.  All in fantastically painted 20mm figures.

The initial troop selection

And the whole board.  The aquarium plant jungle looks really good with 20mm troops!

Rod's garage.  Like all of us, too much stuff!!!!  And not enough space!!!!

The initial advance was slow!

Then Japanese artillery hit the US artillery observer

Some marines hid behind some rocks.  That Japanese bunker was fearsome (and deadly)

Within the first couple of turns, the Japanese foward defences were shot to pieces.  But the Marines were pinned down and slow to move.  The tank was immobilised by the AT rifle, the foward observer for the artillery was killed, and the flame thrower team was pinned down and not coming foward to flame those bunkers!

Finally a team managed to get around to the back of one of the Japanese bunkers ...

But then the US aircraft arrived, and strafed the US troops!!!!

And Japanese reserves arrived.  The bunker was destroyed, but the reserves destroyed the infiltrating troops.  At this point we called it -- the Marines were barely off the beach, and their heavy weapons were mainly neutralized!!!

A fun game using Rod's home made experimental rules.  Pins seemed a bit to vicious - it took forever to recover.  But the board was gorgeous, and the rules were fun.  Rod will make a few tweaks, and we will try it again!