November Issue Web Extra! Until now, ACG readers had to wait two issues before finding out the solution to our popular You Command Combat Decision Games. Now, we will begin posting the solution and an analysis of the historical outcome at armchairgeneral.com shortly after the respective due date for submissions of Reader Solutions. Here is the historical outcome and an analysis for You Command CDG #29, “Aussies at Buna, 1942,” November 2008 issue.

Aussies at Buna, 1942

The November 2008 issue of Armchair General magazine presented the Combat Decision Game “Aussies at Buna, 1942.” This CDG placed readers in the role of Lieutenant Colonel C.J. “Clem” Cummings, commander of the Australian 9th Battalion, 18th Infantry Brigade. Cummings’ mission was to eliminate Japanese defenses southeast of Buna, New Guinea, and capture two key Japanese-held airfields. Allied Southwest Pacific Area commander General Douglas MacArthur was desperately anxious to use the airfields and the Gona-Sanananda-Buna area along New Guinea’s northern coast as a springboard for an “island-hopping” campaign that ultimately would take him back to the Philippines. American and Australian troops, however, were making frustratingly little progress in November and December 1942 – the island’s forbidding jungle was proving to be as much of an enemy as the die-hard Japanese defenders. MacArthur’s bold plan to defend Australia by taking offensive action in New Guinea was in danger of becoming a costly failure.

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