Long Campaign - Japanese

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Battle 6
This one was played out over 11 days and I neglected to keep detailed notes. Yet another meeting engagement so it was back to the move to the centre, set up over-watch positions and slaughter the incoming hordes. Again, the So-Mos managed to punch a hole through the Chinese flank, move into the rear and chew up the artillery park. The Aichi recce birds helped spot 1 37mm ATG but towards game end two So-Mos ran into another and were shot to pieces. I need to get my recce boys some infantry cover but without turning them into a full fledge combined arms unit.

Points of interest: The Type 89B has a much better AP round so the Chinese armoured trucks were dispatched out of hand. I had a scout unit that wouldn't fire despite being fully rallied and with a full complement of shots. I checked its stats and found it had fired off its entire basic load down to the last grenade - I've not seen that before. The Chinese seem to have the biggest artillery park outside of the Soviets about 6 75mm on board with a couple of mortars thrown in and two off board platoons as backup.

Next game I advance.