Obongi-Ni Korean War FW Edition

The 8th Army had issued an operational directive to the 24th Infantry Division on the 15th—with the help of the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, it would unleash a massive counter-attack. The Marines were to seize Ogong-Ni Ridge. Throughout the day, 2LT Granville Sweet’s 3rd Platoon had supported the 2/5 Marine’s attack on Hill 102, at the northern edge of the ridge. During the day, the four tanks were hit by 23 rounds of enemy A-T rifle fire, while reducing NKPA positions. By late afternoon their ammunition was expended, having destroyed 12 AT guns and several MGs. As the light faded, a lookout position on Hill 102 reported tanks and infantry approaching from the west. The Leatherneck tankers scrambled to finish rearming and refueling. With Corsairs from MAG-33 about to make straffing runs on the North Koreas, the grunts prepared an ambush. The Corsairs hit one tank and scattered the supporting infantry. The first T-34 to rounded the road between Hill 125 and Observation Hill, only to be hit by combined RR and bazooka fire. Track broken and possibly on fire, it continued to fire on everything around it until a Pershing appeared face-to-face. Two 90mm hits made it explode. The second T-34 was hit in the fuel tanks by bazooka fire, then RR shells, but it still continued firing from next to the first T-34. A second Pershing came up and together the two Marine tanks fired 13 rounds at the stalled Communist tank until it exploded. A third T34 was destroyed in the same manner —bazookas, RRs and tank shells. A fourth tank turned tail and fell victim to a 3.5” team from Company ‘F’, 9th Infantry. The entire action had taken ten minutes. This illustrates how combined-arms are supposed to work, where the organic A-T weapons of an infantry unit along with supporting air and armor, can stop an attack cold. That night the Marines stopped an attack that left scores of their own dead for 183 NKPA bodies. Eliminated as a fighting force, over the next two days the 4th NKPA Disivion melted away towards Naktong, leaving behind 38 artillery pieces.

>>> You cannot have a 2-fer with a second module and that is what Obong-Ni is. For the first time, FW scenarios ported to our large-hex Korean War maps -- none of the skinny 8" wide boards used in the set. What is used is armor on both sides - including the infamous encounter at Obong-Ni Ridge in August 1950 and rolling all over the countryside from there in a depiction of the war that is far from 'forgotten' here.