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Old March 27th, 2019, 11:05 AM
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Default Re: Will Japanese soldiers fight to the end?

Just tried a meeter UK v Japan in Burma - and got to meet the Imperial Guards (The nasty bunch that marched some nurses into the surf and machine-gunned them in Hong Kong, IIRC..)

HQ, OP, 2 troops 25 pounder, 4 bishops (as sturmartillerie), 6 Humber A/C, 3 scout sections of 3 carrier + 3 scouts, a Stuart squadron, 2 platoons of grunts.

Simply charge forward and take all objectives, easy as you have the speed and set up reception committees with Stuarts interspersed with the carriers, scouts stay mounted.

The Imperial Guards arrive and we start attriting them. Arty eventually arrives - Imperial Guards do rout, they will be back soon though (like SS).

20mm AT rifles are a pain on lighter armour - lost a carrier or 2 to those. Stuarts not bothered by them.

Japanese planes arrive, delete a carrier or 2 and a couple of the armoured cars. Must remember to buy flak!.

Some infantry tanks arrive in the North - stuarts cream them, and some little tankettes with a 37mm popgun in the South - target practice for Stuarts.

About halfway through, Japanese advances in 3 spots repulsed.

Stuarts alone may not have done so well - but having scouts in carriers intermingled helps spot the enemy advance.

Will not bother with the Bishops next time - expensive if used as arty, and as sturmartillerie not brilliant, a CS-tank would have been cheaper, and not incurred arty overload.
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