[Consim-l] PB/PL In Korea

[Thomas Cundiff]

Howdy Gents,

A gentleman recently asked me why no one had developed counters for PB/PL 
for the Korean War?  I didn't have a good answer for him.  Perhaps in the 
past someone has made some efforts in that direction, I don't know.  His 
reasoning was that the new boards at Ward McBurney's Imaginative Strategist 
site fits very well into Korean terrain, lots of hill tops and streams 
without fords, etc. ... There hadn't been a great technological change from 
WWII.  Korea was largely an infantry battle, with some support here and 
there from armor, especially the UN forces.  Seemed to me he had a good 
idea.

In fact his idea was so good it seemed to me the next best question was to 
ask about the early Indo/Pakistani War (though perhaps this would fit better 
into AIW) and the Arab-Israeli war of 47-48.

I think these are good arenas to explore.  Do any of you have thoughts and 
possible counter ideas?



Some considerations for Korea are these:



Tthe M46 and M47 tanks were on the scene in 53, the Pershing was the 
mainstay of the US Army. The recoilless rocket was in widespread use by both 
the US and UK/Commonwealth forces. A number of US self propelled artillery 
pieces were now in service. France was operating several types of new 
armored cars and the AMX 13 series of tanks and its variants had come on the 
scene. England had developed the Humber Pig and the Saracen apc's. And, of 
course, there would be a need for North Korean, South Korean, and Red 
Chinese counters and their Soviet made equipment. There was widespread use 
of US, Soviet, and Japanese WWII surplus and cast off small arms by both 
North Korea and Red China in the early stages of the Korean War - all had 
seen hard service in WWII and were wore out. Later units would be equipped 
by new Soviet weaponry. So, early infantry from these nations would need to 
reflect the greater odds of equipment and supply failures due to the nature 
of the equipment available to them early. Later supply failure would need to 
be taken into account because US air interdiction controlled all supply 
routes. But, at least the rifles and machineguns the communist forces were 
using were new, having
replaced the old wore out WWII surplus stuff that plagued them early on.

There are several things to think about when it comes to factoring Korean 
War era units as opposed to WWII, even though the equipment was nominally 
the same.

Anyway, that's a beginning to the things I know to need consideration in a 
Korean War module.

Take Care,
Tom
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