Map Pax 1 - Blood & Iron (ATS Upgrade Edition, Cardstock Map Edition)

This is an official reprint produced by Critical Hit and exclusively available at Noble Knight Games!

This reprint contains the style of cardstock map that Critical Hit began using in 2013.

ITEM POCKET, OKINAWA, 20 April 1944: As the afternoon wore on with ‘G’ Company unable to release the Japanese grip on the Pocket, Lieutenant Colonel McDonough decided to send up ‘E’ Company. At 1350 hours the company commander, Captain George R. J. Weigand, was ordered to move up between the two ridges, then turn left, using Fox Ridge as cover. The goal of the onslaught was Ryan’s Ridge, or alternately the road cut west of Gusukuma. It was still assumed at that point that contact could be established with 1st Battalion. Weigand completed passing through Ryan’s left flank and attacked east toward the crest of Ryan’s Ridge, heading toward what the Company Commander thought would be a covered route to the top of the ridge. Weigand attacked in platoons, moving to the point with 3rd Platoon, under command of Technical Sergeant Ernest L. Shoeff. This platoon would find itself attacking alone, after a storm of enemy machine-gun and mortar fire forced the rest of the company to ground. Weigand, Shoeff, and two squads kept moving forward, using tombs at the foot of the hill for cover. Orders were communicated to Weigand by a runner: extend the line at all costs. The Captain and two men soon found themselves cut off from Shoeff and the remainder of the main body. For the rest of the afternoon the company commander was under constant fire and out of communications with everyone. After dark Weigand managed to make his way back to Fox Ridge and rejoin his company. His uniform was shot full of holes but Weigand returned un-injured.

Contents:

• Eight scenarios, ranging in size from small to large, that play on the historical map;
  
• A 22 x 24 color map of the ITEM POCKET battlefield on heavyweight stock;
  
• One card containing AFV Cards to trim out;
  
• Battlefield Walkaround and Special Rules document (an ATS specialty!)

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE GAME. Ownership of any edition of the ATS Rulebook and standard play aids and markers is required. You also need the following counter sheets: Japanese AFV/Personnel sheet, U.S. Infantry (8-5-9 squads), and U.S. AFV/H Weapon sheet.