Desperate Fight for Pork Chop Hill - Korea (A Warhorse Campaign Series Modification)

12 Km west of Cheorwon. [Best played H2H] It is recommended that players follow the instructions included in the text file to change visibility to 20 for day turns 11-15. Airstrikes should only be plotted if the following turn is a daylight turn. The light breeze of early evening brought to Pork Chop Hill the sound of music. "They are singing prayers. They are preparing to die," the interpreter explained to Lt. Harrold. This was the first warning that the men of Easy Company, 31st Infantry, were marked for special attention by the Communist Chinese. For a small patrol, led by Sergeant Pidgeon, had just left the perimeter hoping to bag some prisoners. They had no idea they were about to bump into a full-scale attack. Pork Chop Hill, 234m, was engineered to the doctrine of the 8th Army: A buffer used to break up an attack before it reached the main defense line, and an artillery observation post. It had a solidly reveted rifle trench at the crest with sandbagged walls and heavily timbered roof cover. Barbed wire circled the perimeter, which was designed for defense in any direction. But Easy Company was shorthanded: A day earlier, Headquarters ordered them to relieve "I" Company. One rifle platoon and part of the heavy weapons platoon were already gone. Only two rifle platoons had to defend against a battalion or more of Chinese. Fortunately, King and Love companies were ready reinforcements, if Easy could just hold long enough. Artillery was also plentiful. An estimated 37000 artillery rounds were fired in defense of Pork Chop Hill on the second day of battle. Never even at Verdun or Kwajalein were guns fired at a rate such as this. Although the Americans held the position that day, it was eventually judged too costly to defend and later in spring 1953 they withdrew. The main reason the Chinese wanted it was for propaganda value in the Panmunjom Peace Negotiations...