Buyer's Remorse?

[Partizanka]

I can understand Paul's thoughts, but I bought the game and found much to praise while thinking with some tweaks this could be  great game. I played through the Leyte Operation except for the last few turns when my opponent dropped out. We began in March and stopped in November and would have finished before the end of the year. The game is fast enough to allow for multiple plays per day. One big issue affecting game playability however is entrenchments. Early on the U.S. was roiling over my Japanese and as a result on the other side of the jungle I started digging in at the two main points that slowed U.S. advance historically. There was time for me to build a layer of bunker defenses that was impenetrable. The unfortunate problem was that I expected the U.S. forces to have more bunker busting capabilities than they had, but not having that in the face of these bunkers their advance stalled. IMO, there has to be an adjustment to bunker values to allow for less resistance or for another level of entrenching that would offer the defense of monkey holes and the like if bunkers were done away with entirely.  Otherwise the game played well and results were close to historic except for the issue with bunkers that reversed the historical result.