The Battle for the Dak To Hills

[TheBigRedOne]

I looked at the scenario yesterday. I do not believe any attributes of the terrain were changed over time that would have led to a chopper not being able to land in the jungle. Jungle is jungle. Unless you cut a clearing, choppers aren't going to be able to land. I'd imagine that's what the one open hex on that southern objective represents.

If I had to guess the situation, I'd say the choppers are the landing force for the southern objective. You can land and unload 3 at a time based on what I tried yesterday, so it should take 2-3 turns to land all of your men and start to fan out in a perimeter. The northern objective is the job of the troopers slogging overland.

The early SB were not balanced well for PBEM. Tiller went for historical accuracy which often led to the possibility of one side never winning. That said, it seems that the game is winnable on the US side, but I'm sure it's a tough one.