Since this is as much a chronicle of how I play the game as what happened in each battle, I thought I would share a few thoughts I had this morning while switching my Support squad GLs to type 89 mortar units.
Many years ago (like 30), I read an Airfix book on ancients tabletop wargaming. In it, the author said that you need to learn how to use the units you have, not run around buying whatever beat you in the last game. Sadly that is what I have been doing in this campaign. I get hit with artillery - - I buy counter battery rather than learn to avoid the artillery, my mortars get over-run - so I buy a infantry platoon to protect them rather than learn how to move them and so forth.
What began as a rifle company with a few supporting arms has mutated into a monster. I now have more points and more units outside of the core rifle company I began with. This in part has been the cause of my failures in the defense because while I have good support, the poor gunjin holding the line are spread very thin indeed. What should have been a light infantry force as become very heavy indeed.
So, my plan is to strip back to a rifle company with 2 mortars, 2 IGs, 2 HMGs supported by a tank platoon. Since I'm reluctant to lose Anabaki, the recce tanks will stay too along with the 37mm popguns.
I will say that if I had to buy and paint each one of these support troops, I would have figured this out a long time ago
. But - Hats off to the icon makers anyway
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