Since November 1944, tension had been on the rise between the Japanese occupation troops and the Indochina government. French and Japanese troops were spread all over the country and their positions intertwined. As early as the end of February, the French intelligence service uncovered a plan for a general attack over the whole of Indochina at the end of the Tet celebrations. But the administration remained unconcerned and, when the French garrisons were attacked at 2015 on 9 March, surprise was total.
Attacker: Japanese (21st Infantry Division)
Defender: French (1st Battalion du 9th Régiment d'Infanterie Coloniale of 1st Régiment de Tirailleurs Tonkinois and Détachment Motorisé de Hanoi)
Played a rematch with Carl after discovering we had made a mistake with the building location control rules (controlling a building does not control all locations within, and since mopping up is NA, the Japanese must march through every hex they want to control...). I actually enjoyed the scenario more the first time - having to march through each location, up and down all those stairs... seemed kind of silly and created a huge mess of control counters everywhere (even playing on VASL, can't even imagine what it would look like on the board!) Still, it was fun to get another game in with Carl and made for an interesting puzzle for the attacker at least. Learned some good lessons about the deadliness of Japanese CC!
2020-10-10
(D) Scott Fischbein
vs
Carl Nogueira
Japanese win
Another excellent vASLOK game. Carl initiated lots of CCs (including one round that had 6 of them happening at once) and his Japanese troops were not as stealthy as they're alleged to be, so things were looking pretty good for the French for a while, but the heavy rain made it hard to amass CVP and in the end they couldn't get the job done. Great game with a great opponent!
2020-10-10
(A) Andy Beaton
vs
Robert Hammond
French win
French had brutal dice on turn 1, meaning I was taking KIA's instead of striping and more importantly putting me back a turn. The mortars never managed a smoke round, and I think I only broke one French squad all game. Losing too many 1st line guys meant I was trying to ambush the French with 2nd line guys, and ended up losing as many as I killed. I couldn't get the French out of key buildings meaning I couldn't mop up and claim the locations I needed and conceded at the end of turn 4.
2020-07-14
(A) wayne baumber
vs
Joel
French win
As is often the case with the Japanese as one of the combatants this was a wild and wacky game. As the Japanese player I was possibly too cautious on GT1, leading to rash moves later in the game. The Japanese hit the CVP cap during GT4. However we had lots of pure ASL moments in this one, the French sniper did a sterling job pinning enemy squads, the French tanks malfunctioned on his first shot but still chugged up and down the road trying to overrun Japanese mortar crews and very fitting that the final kill was on 2 (-2) shot Joel rolled a three for a 1 KIA and then rolled doubles on the random selection, A perfect ending to this fracas.
2019-06-28
(D) Glen Taylor
vs
Dowd
Japanese win
2018-06-16
(A) Lawrence Spangler
vs
Diane Spangler
French win
2018-05-18
(D) Michael Rodgers
vs
Blake Ball
French win
I had the French balance of an extra leader. The Japanese hit the CVP cap.
2018-04-10
(D) JP Laurio
vs
Arttu
Japanese win
2018-03-24
(A) Vic Lauterbach
vs
JM
Japanese win
Failed morale checks and mutual eliminations in HtH CC whittled the Japanese force down quickly. It came down to a struggle for building Y2 which I finally took except one location. I managed to get a squad and the 8+1 leader around the French left to grab two empty buildings on GT5 resulting in a very narrow victory: 46 locations controlled and 16 CVP lost.
2017-05-20
(D) Richard Jenulis
vs
Darren Kovac
Japanese win
CASLO (Canadian ASL Open) XXI - May 2017
2017-03-03
(A) Paul Legg
vs
Gary Norman
French win
2015-11-06
(A) Paul Legg
vs
Chris Walton
Japanese win
Intensive Fire 2015
2012-09-02
(A) Jeff Coleman
vs
Vernon Wester
Japanese win
I think this is a good scen to learn the Japanese.1st trun I placed smoke and was able to advance.Once I was in the buildings I engaged in alot of CC,and was on the winning side most of them.French conceded with 1 turn left.
2012-01-06
(A) Jeff Coleman
vs
Are Erlandsen
French win
Japanese spent to much time in CC
2011-10-29
(A) Paolo Cariolato
vs
blind sniper
Japanese win
My opponent first taste of japanese steel.
Very good scenario for introducing newby to the japanese without the hassle of banzai.
Reccomended.
2009-10-08
(A) Jeff Waldon
vs
Dave Ginnard
French win
Great teaching opponent. First Banzai, heavy losses!