Paper Wars Issue 113: Inchon: MacArthur's Gambit

This two-player game simulates the daring attack by the United Nations’ X Corps against the port of Inchon and its subsequent advance on Seoul in September 1950. The operation resulted in the liberation of that capital city and the severing of the lines of communication to the North Korean units fighting around the Pusan Perimeter. As a result, virtually the entire North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) in the south was destroyed, allowing UN forces to occupy all of North Korea but for a few mountainous enclaves. Unfortunately, one of the indirect results of this dramatic victory was Red Chinese intervention, once more throwing the UN into full retreat. Scales.

Designed by James P. Werbaneth, each full turn represents one day of real-time, and each large hexagon on the 34×22 map represents one mile from side to opposite side. The 176 large (5/8”) units represent battalions and individual ships. This new edition is a graphic update (incorporating the minor errata); no rule changes have been made.

BONUS GAME MATERIAL: Also included in the issue is a second large-size counter-sheet containing units for Lou Coatney’s “Big Solution” variant scenario for WWII Campaigns: 1940, 1941, and 1942’s 1941 and Ty Bomba’s “December 1944” scenario for 1940. Finally, by way of ‘value add,’ Kevin Cantwell presents two (designer-approved) full-size ‘mats’ for Greg Smith’s American Tank Ace.