In July 1937, Beijing was surrounded by Japanese-controlled territory. Only the southern road with the ancient Marco Polo Bridge was still free of the enemy. If this last of the Beijing approaches fell into Japanese hands, the whole city would be lost. Japanese troops were stationed on the eastern side of the bridge and the Chinese on the western side. - - - -
In this 5-turn scenario, Japanese infantry and tankettes slug it out with Chinese infantry and a lone armored car. The Japanese try to put themselves in the best situation possible before the inevitable negotiations begin by controlling as large a bridgehead and capturing as many prisoners as possible.
Turn 1 Banzai Charge netted me several buildings, but the Chinese managed to entirely kill off a pair of squads early, which played a decisive role in the eventual Japanese loss - they simply cannot deal with manpower losses. Snipers were active early on, annoyingly, and the Chinese forces kept managing to win or tie in Close Combat results, preventing the attacker from ever getting the advantage. I think this scenario would benefit from modifications to make the Chinese force weaker, or perhaps add a squad to the Japanese OOB (and allowing reinforcements in on Turn 2) No capture attempts were tried, if only because I was always facing first line squads. I did have fun overrunning a Chinese squad in a building with a tankette, eliminating the squad via falling rubble, though!
2023-01-17
(A) Charles Stampley
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Chinese win
I was too conservative on the attack as the Japanese. Chinese reinforcements were able to hole up in the various victory point buildings before I could get going. This was a fun scenario that I want to try agsin.
2020-08-13
(A) Simon Staniforth
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Japanese win
2019-12-31
(A) Jason Wert
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Gabe Wert
Chinese win
2018-06-22
(A) B-E Karlsson
vs
Chinese
Chinese win
VASLleague match against fun and skilled opponent Andy
2017-03-20
(D) John Garlic
vs
Ed Barnes
Chinese win
[Imported from ROAR]
2016-02-01
(D) nathan wegener
vs
Paul Works
Japanese win
should have tried a HW
2015-01-21
(A) fabrizio da pra
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Paolo Cariolato
Japanese win
In the first turn after one chinese broke under a WP smoke round I was able to get into HtH with 4 Chinese squads (2 of wich were Pinned) after two round of fight the dead count was 4 chinese dead squad against 1/2 Jananese but no additional prisoners.
The chinese reiforcement came on the east side behind the big 2 lvl stone building.
I prepared to meet the HW behind the road and they came on with a 15 squad HW on the second turn, they where met with deadly fire and conceded after 3 dead squads and another 5 broken with no gain and he would be obliged to enter a hex with a 2 residual with already 3 broken squad in it for an overstack penalty that would give me a 2 -5 shot and more fire coming from a still not committed squad.
2015-01-21
(D) Paolo Cariolato
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Fabrizio Da Pra
Japanese win
2014-06-28
(D) Ian Morris
vs
Nige
Chinese win
2012-05-10
(D) X von Marwitz
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David Wallace
Japanese win
2012-03-18
(A) Ron Garcia
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Darryl M.
Chinese win
2011-12-16
(A) Bob Callen
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Rodney Callen
Chinese win
Excellent game, lots of replay value. I did not attack aggressively enough in beginning with Japanese. captured 5 squads, could not get 7tth building or 6th prisoner. Captured one conscript squad with a 8+1leader!
