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| Overall Rating, 3 votes |
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2.67
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| Scenario Rank: --- of 940 |
| Parent Game | Changsha |
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| Historicity | Historical |
| Date | 1942-01-05 |
| Start Time | 10:00 |
| Turn Count | 22 |
| Visibility | Day |
| Counters | 119 |
| Net Morale | 1 |
| Net Initiative | 1 |
| Maps | 2: 92, 95 |
| Layout Dimensions | 86 x 28 cm 34 x 11 in |
| Play Bounty | 192 |
| AAR Bounty | 165 |
| Total Plays | 2 |
| Total AARs | 2 |
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| Bridge Control |
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| Changsha | Base Game |
| Pusan Perimeter | Maps |
| Introduction |
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The Japanese 3rd Infantry Division had been slated to cross the river Liuyang Ho over the bridge at Lichiachung. But when they arrived, they found that the Chinese 26th Army had stolen a march on them and already occupied the crossing. If they could keep the Japanese on the other side of the river, the Chinese had a good chance of bottling them up between the Liuyang Ho and the city of Changsha. Division commander, Tagaji Takahashi naturally ordered an immediate attack. |
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The Chinese held their ground, inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese as they attempted to assault the bridge directly, and when they tried crossing at other points to outflank the defenders. Balked at the bridge, the Japanese moved five kilometers downstream where they found an undefended crossing. |
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| 2 Errata Items | |
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| Scen 8 |
Set up does not state whether the river is major or minor and if major not crossing number is given (Juiceman
on 2022 Oct 30)
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| Scen 8 |
Chinese forces list 4x ENG platoons but there are no Chinese Engineers in the counter mix, these should be part of the Japanese force pool (Juiceman
on 2022 Oct 30)
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| #8 The Bridge at Lichiachung |
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The set up does not list whether the river is minor or major, there is no crossing number and the Chinese set up includes 4 engineer platoons which they do not have in the counter mix. Based on the write up made the river major, gave the Japanese the engineers and a river crossing number of 7. This scenario played out pretty much like the write up, the Chinese had a strong defensive position at the bridge covered by dug in infantry, mortars, HMGs and two batteries of 75s. The Japanese went further east to cross at an undefended part of the river to out flank the Chinese defenses at the bridge, needless to say they were unsuccessful in capturing the bridge, time is not on the side of the Japanese. |
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This was a rather boring, overlong (22 game turns) and just downright, tedious scenario to get through. ACav led the brave & rash Japanese in this losing effort, as the Chinese were just too numerous & tenacious on defense to lose. This was a nonplaytested and uneven scenario. Casualties were very high for both sides, and although the bridge did change hands twice, it was controlled by the battered, defending Chinese at the end, resulting in a costly victory for Chiang's 44th Infantry Division. Please note the errata posted by Juiceman on this one. We used his recommendations by adding the engineers, selecting the river size, and the crossing number. Thanks for adding the Japanese engineers, Peter! here were NINE, FOW-shortened game turns of the 22 we played. As usual, this substantially helped the defenders. Both sides lost most of their junior leaders, and also suffered decapitations at almost the same time -- during game turns 12 and 13. The final steps losses for the attacking Japanese was 37, and 21 for the Chinese side. |
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