Date | Reporter | | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Comments |
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2023-06-04 | (A) Rich Weiley | vs | Eric Topp | | Japanese win | |
2022-11-10 | (A) Lawrence Spangler | vs | Diane Spangler | | Gurkha win | |
2022-05-11 | (A) Dwayne Duval | vs | Kevin Duval | | Gurkha win | |
2021-10-18 | (A) Ian Morris | vs | Simon | | Gurkha win | Could make little headway against a solid defence and my own dice. Enjoyable face to face game as always. |
2021-08-19 | (A) Asad Rustum | vs | Jacob Elmqvist | | Gurkha win | The Japanese were given a real beating. Tried going round with two tanks but god bogged down in around the swamps in Z9/AA10. The other tank failed its TC for five consecutive turns. But the killer was of course the total miscalculation of heading (unprepared) into HtH CC with Gurkhas. The Gurkhas carved up the japs. Being the second scenario I play in PTO I realise I still haven't figured out the Japanese. One thing is for sure, it's a totally different ASL experience!
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2021-03-11 | (D) Shane Pask | vs | | | Gurkha win | Luck was on my side but this scenario is definitely replayable. My setup was not the best and after turn 2 I was questioning my wire placement even after the first tank bogged Immediately on wire. The tank then got ROF and 2 CH but the only effect was 2 sniper activations when the Gurkha shrugged off the fire. Rain started on T2 and got heavy T4 which helped the defenders but Sgt Kiro (Jap 9-1) was running rampage in CC to the south until shot by the sniper.
On the last turn, I had 3 squads beside the road. PF broke 2 then 2 tanks fired point blank at the last (including IF) but could only get a pin. The last Japanese crew could not get off the wire to attack. Gurkha win. |
2021-01-16 | (A) John Gorkowski | vs | John Stadick | | Gurkha win | After six turns of brutal pointblank mayhem, Stadick’s sole remaining Gurkha squad survived the last turn hand-to-hand combat (one 4-4-8 vs. one 6-4-8) in CC7 to win. Sequencing is more important than maneuver in this dense jungle melee.
My Japanese opened with a tank blitz straight down the road into T5 and U6, where lucky rolls enabled them to remove two wire counters without a single bog! The third tank jammed itself into jungle at T6 to sleaze freeze some same-hex Gurkhas while bogging. Japanese infantry then followed up and dished out point blank fire to break the Nepalese in T6. Gurkhas in U5 targeted an adjacent Japanese tank (in motion), but broke their ATR. Another Gurkha squad later perished for failure to route. The clouds held their water, no rain.
That trend continued for the next five turns. The Japanese infantry-armor team pushed down the road aggressively. Sequencing was key to progress. The tanks went ahead, even risking bog, to sleaze freeze Gurkhas and stayed in motion to avoid ATR shots. Japanese infantry rushed up behind, throwing white phosphorus when possible to inflict morale checks (that worked twice), and hit the Nepalis with point blank fire. In this way, through fire attacks and WP grenades rather than close combat, the Japanese inflicted significant losses while sustaining only two red lines and two breaks (against half squads). Of note, the Japanese MMGs fumbled a couple a 16 FP shots and the mortar never fired.
We did see a few mid game close combats that inflicted more damage. One around X8 when a bypassed Gurkha tried to counter attack into the Japanese flank. That 4-5-8 took out a 3-4-7, but also died in the process. A second CC popped up in the jungle around Y6 as the Japanese tried to stamp out resistance that had survived their pointblank fire. The Japanese 9-1 and two squads dispatched a 6-4-8 whose counter thrust killed the 9-1. Another CC followed in BB4 when two Japanese squads advanced against a single 6-4-8. That Gurkha ambushed and killed both Japanese intruders, but later succumbed to point blank Japanese rifle fire.
As the end game approached, Stadick had only two leaders (one of them wounded) and a single 6-4-8 remaining. The Japanese still had about four squad equivalents and three tanks, but were strung out after chasing down resistance east and west of the road. One long-bogged tank was also still in the rear. Therefore, they had to converge on CC7, the final Gurkha strong hold, from afar in a hurry.
Sequencing was again important. Stadick had sent his two single man counters forward as blockers. The Japanese had two “spend” two CX crews overrunning a concealed SMC with LMG in CC6. I faced an agonizing choice. Should I ram a tank into the Gurkha “Alamo” (CC7) to sleaze freeze that lone 6-4-8, as I had been doing thus far, or stop adjacent to avoid the ambush/cc sequence advantage my same-hex tank would grant to the Gurkhas? My armor took the road north and did a U turn to come back and stop adjacent in DD6 where bogging although likely was irrelevant at this point. It worked, that tank later fired its main armament and hit the 6-4-8/Alamo, but the six-flat shot failed to have any effect.
My infantry closed in on the Alamo, but only one squad could do so without becoming CX. That one 4-4-8 advanced forward while his CX twin stayed out, again for fear of enhancing the possibility of a Gurkha ambush. That part worked, the Gurkha’s failed to ambush in close combat; but my 4-4-8 also whiffed his 1-2 hand-to-hand attack and so the Gurkha’s survived for the win.
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2020-06-07 | (A) Denis Leclair | vs | Claudio | | Gurkha win | The Japanese thought they had cleared the path but a single Gurkha half-squad managed to get an ambush result in the final turn CC allowing him to retreat to a hex adjacent to the road and there was nothing the Japanese could do about it. Right down to the final CC! |
2019-01-26 | (D) Brian Ogstad | vs | Stefano Cuccurullo | | Japanese win | No one died from IFT, only from Melee or failure to rout. |
2018-03-24 | (D) Jonathan Kapleau | vs | Duenskie, Ron | | Japanese win | |
2017-05-28 | (D) JP Laurio | vs | Arttu | | Japanese win | |
2017-01-10 | (D) Andy Beaton | vs | Jeff Wasserman | | Gurkha win | First try, I had Japanese and beat the Gurkhas - found the Gurkhas had shorted their OB significantly. Switched sides, and this time the full-strength Gurkhas stopped the IJA with good CC dice and a couple of heroes. |
2015-02-19 | (D) X von Marwitz | vs | Martin Mayers | | Japanese win | Nice little scenario. I had the defending Gurkhas. I think the placement of my wire and my defensive setup was sound as it left only a few gaps that the Japanese could pass through without delay by Wire, Bamboo or swamp. These gaps were covered by strong FP. The Japanese nicely stepped onto some wire next to some of my guys, but unfortunately, I could neither harm them nor capitalize on the chance to do some serious damage to a stack of 3 squads + leader in HtH CC. The other leader dared to scout ahead alone, shrugging off a 16+1 / 8+1 without scratch. With a little luck, the Japanese might have been in dire straights at the start. In turn, they HW'ed the Gurkhas, who could not do any serious damage except for a few stripes, but broke by FPF. These brokies could get back to safety behind a second line of defenders.The tanks managed to clear both Wires by driving through (neatly enabling another HW that would otherwise have been foiled by the only Japanese having LOS to me being stuck on top of it...). They platoon-moved and non-platoon moved through several Dense Jungle hexes passing each and every freaking Bog check regardless of +5 mods, freezing me subsequently, so that infantry could move up. Heavy Rain had set in, saving the tanks from at least three ATR hits. At long last two tanks bogged (on their second roll...) in Japanese turn 6. Due to all this, my Gurkhas were getting quite a beating. Unfortunately, I had to work with only the 8-0 leader as my 7-0 was taken out by the Sniper in turn 1. I moved off with my remaining units into four different directions all threatening to move back towards the road. This forced the Japanese to split up. Alas, two HS (who were at an advantage when rolling for Ambush) both went down in CC, freeing some Japanese to rush back after the other Gurkhas. The last of them was broken during Prep Fire of Japanese Turn 7. All in all a tight game that could have gone in either direction. |
2014-10-11 | (A) Kevin Killeen | vs | Mark Kraatz | | Japanese win | ASLOK 1st round mini |
2014-01-13 | (A) Russell Dewhurst | vs | Gordon | | Gurkha win | |
2013-12-22 | (D) Vic Lauterbach | vs | MA | | Gurkha win | Compact, fun PTO fight - Ghurkas very tough in CC and made their deliberate immobilization shots. Two broken Ghurka squads able to rout into jungle then move back to road while Japanese force melted away in HtH CC. |
2013-10-10 | (D) Kevin Killeen | vs | Mark Pitcavaige | | Gurkha win | ASLOK |
2013-06-11 | (A) Kevin Killeen | vs | Doyle Motes | | Japanese win | Vasl game |
2012-08-02 | (A) Jeff Coleman | vs | ChrisNL | | Japanese win | I thought I had it lost on turn 4,Got a CH and improbible hit with both tanks and it changed the game.I won it in CC ,on the last turn.3:2 odds.Fun scen |
2011-10-05 | (D) Michael Rodgers | vs | Sean Deller | | Japanese win | |
2011-04-16 | (D) Andy Beaton | vs | Spencer Armstrong | | Japanese win | A PTO learning scenario - good fun but I was stamped out by turn 5 |
2011-03-10 | (A) Paul Legg | vs | Craig Benn | | Gurkha win | Heroes 2011 |
2011-02-19 | (A) Christopher Dawson | vs | Gurkha | | Japanese win | |
2010-02-20 | (D) John Van Natta | vs | Jeff T. | | Japanese win | |
2010-02-20 | (A) Jeff T | vs | JVan | | Japanese win | Heavy rain limited smoke. It was up close and personal with all damage coming in close combat until the very end. Both sides rolled high on attacks and low on morale. Final Japanese advancing fire broke and eliminated a leader and squad and left the only remaining Gurkha pinned and an easy target for the final CC roll victory. Tense scenario that easily could have gone either way. |
2008-08-30 | (D) Paul Works | vs | Lee Conner | | Gurkha win | |
2008-08-24 | (A) Mike McCann | vs | Glen Taylor | | Gurkha win | |
2008-07-22 | (D) Bill Brodie | vs | Steven Linton | | Japanese win | He walked into every trap I set, but his Japanese troops were supermen, whereas my poor Gurkhas could not pass a morale check. |
2004-09-18 | (D) Steffen Knippel | vs | T Messner | | Japanese win | |
2000-10-28 | (D) Paul Legg | vs | David Tye | | Gurkha win | Intensive Fire 2000 |
1999-05-15 | (D) Grant Linneberg | vs | Robert Oler | | Japanese win | |
1988-01-01 | (D) Richard Jenulis | vs | Michael Libens | | Japanese win | [date unknown] |