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I did play test them all and got a DV for each - obviously knowing the opponent's layout that's not due to any gifts in my play. With the ambush I lost a boat to the 14 mil AA (which I'm happy to be getting rid of...) The torpedo boats and PBRs from my core force (and the hovercraft when I took them) "Z"ed most hexes before my troops moved in and it wasn't too bad. The barges were late to the party and the troops in them only got to take part in the plantation attack. I used smoke to make sure I only had to deal with one section of the "Ring of fire" at a time and had it mostly sorted by the time the choppers came. (I forgot about the spider holes in the middle of the LZ and gave myself an awful fright when they opened up!) I think the barge troops stopped off to deal with the morters.

If that was an odd way of dealing with that battle, please let me know. I'm not trying to design battles where most people will never "beat" because of my quirky way of thinking.