Assault at Lamon Bay - The Matrix Games version of Rising Sun

Mauban, 90km SE of Manila, Luzon, Philippines: [Best played as Axis] Two weeks after the 7 December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese 14th Army began the conquest of Luzon in the Philippines. While the 48th Division consolidated the beachhead north of Manila along the shores of Lingayen Gulf, elements of the 16th Division began their own assaults to the southeast of the capitol through Lamon Bay at dawn on the 24th. Lt. Col. Tsunehiro's reinforced 2nd/20 Infantry Battalion was assigned the mission of seizing the beaches at Mauban and pushing inland to secure the right flank of the main landings at Atimonan. Despite weeks of warning, American and Philippine Army forces were still ill prepared to face the Japanese invasion with most of the forces under General MacArthur's command still struggling to organize and move into defensive positions across the island. At Mauban, only the 2nd/1st PA Infantry Battalion was in position to defend the beaches on the morning of the 24th. With no artillery support, the Philippine soldiers endured the Japanese naval bombardment in their hastily dug trenches and prepared to meet the enemy with all they had: courage, hot lead and cold steel.