Hill 255 FW Edition

Code: HILL_255_FW

Price: $99.95

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After taking part in the battle for Pork Chop, American veteran Bill R. Crum had the following to say in an interview: “Most of the Chinese were young. As to their fighting abilities, it was hard to tell how good they were because their philosophy was, they blew the bugles, they charge and you don’t know whether they were doped up or what, they came and they came in droves but what I found, once we went back after them, they ran. Now whether they were told to retreat or not, I don’t know but they didn’t stay really and fight to the bitter end.” Crum went on to say, “It was during the 17 days, I’m not for sure the date in there that they overran us but it was within those 17 days. It was between March 25th and April 14th that they overran us and we had what they called flash Pork Chop where our own artillery was thrown in on our positions and it saved our lives really. Flash Pork Chop is when we asked for the fire to come in on us to save the position and ourselves. Sometimes friendly fire hurt us. Especially, I know this was true later in our work, we had to take back another hill which was called, Dale Outpost which we took back was in proximity to Pork Chop. Dale Outpost we were called out, it was probably 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning, which was dark and we were lined up ready to attack the hill and rounds were coming in and they were our own rounds coming in very short and hitting close to where we were. I think possibly they were whenever we went in counter attack to take the hill back there were probably some of our own soldiers that was killed by our own artillery because it was being thrown on the Chinese that had taken this hill.”

Large hexes, more terrain, and cleaner terrain -- not to mention the culverts -- featured in the narrative... plus the 2024 palette made for an attractive place to jump-start YOUR re-immersion in this battle and perhaps get you to watch the Gregory Peck movie.

>>> The SR card does include Special Rules for Flash Fire 'U' Barrages that use your existing Barrage and SR/FFE counters. We did not see a way to "Flash Pork Chop" without their inclusion.

What You Get:

A new Pork Chop Hill map that measures 3 feet wide with boards that are used separately in scenarios and also to form one large play area

8 scenarios that use the historical boards

Special Rules card included

New Color Folio

*** ORDER DURING THE WEEKEND OF 1-4 November 2024 and receive the price shown PLUS a FREE Planning Map Folding Play Aid PLUS 2 sheets of cool, publsiher's choice ASLComp counter sheets.

>> THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE GAME. OWNERSHIP OF FORGOTTEN WAR (FW) is required to play.

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