The Marco Polo Bridge Incident CBI (id:#61769)
Prior Publication: FrF17 Friendly Fire Pack 3
Wanping, China
1937-07-08 (1 other)
Designer: Martin Svärd
Starter kit scenario?: Deluxe scenario?:
Balance:
JapaneseChinese
Overview:
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.Attacker: Japanese (117th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division and 221st Mechanized Squadron)
Defender: Chinese (219th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division)
5 turns
Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No| Unit Counts: |
| Squads: A:11.0 D:24.0 |
| AFVs: A:2 Type 94 Tankette x 2 |
| AFVs: D:1 Type 22 |
| Guns: A:0 Type 89 Heavy Grenade-Launcher D:0 |
| Misc Rules: | A: no HIP, set up on ground level only, 2 Chinese prisoner sqds under Guard |
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| Overlays: | NONE |
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| Date | Reporter | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Time | Comments | |
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| 2025-01-14 | (A) Jon Jaramillo | vs | Chris Larkin | Japanese win | 3 hrs | I started the game with two banzai charges which immediately captured a couple buildings. I made slow progress for the first couple turns but once I broke his MMG stack I was able to run wild and capture the requisite number of buildings plus captured a few prisoners and keep my armor out of harms way. The last couple turns I really diced Chris to the point where I was apologizing for my rolls. I'm not an experienced Japanese player so this was a great starting point to learn the mechanics of that nationality but in an urban setting instead of jungle. Pretty fun scenario another great product from our friends from the North. | |
| 2023-08-22 | (A) Nate Gregg | vs | Chris Gregg | Japanese win | We played another Scenario as the last one was so quick. I didn't get off to a very good start, but slowly made gains, and then consolidated those gains and held off the Chinese counterattack for a Japanese win! | ||
| 2023-08-19 | (A) Nate Gregg | vs | Chris Gregg | Japanese win (VASL Log) | A well-executed tactical plan which was accompanied with a lot of luck allowed me to capture 2x Chinese squads and capture 5 buildings in the first 1/2 turn and only taking one striped squad in casualties. In the bottom half of the first turn, I destroyed the Chinese armored car with a MMG, which resulted in a Chinese concession. 45 minutes, probably the fastest game of ASL ever! | ||
| 2023-08-17 | (D) Nate Gregg | vs | Chris Gregg | Japanese win | |||
| 2023-04-05 | (A) Jobbo Fett | vs | JobboFett | Chinese win | 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! |
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| Action | Date |
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| Hutch Modified the gps location | 2025-01-15 09:00:57 |
| tatumjonj Added a playing | 2025-01-15 06:48:33 |
| cupcakus Added a playing | 2025-01-15 06:38:44 |
| Prairial Rated the scenario | 2024-06-24 10:45:36 |
| Cpl Wright Added a playing | 2024-06-01 01:49:41 |
| File | Description | User | Views |
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| Marco Polo Bridge (marco polo bridge2 1937.png) | Image | hoxson1 | 1528 |
| (jap-kmt.png) | Image | hoxson1 | 1336 |
| VASL Log file (ASL_Scenario_-_BoF1_-_The_Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident_-_Take_Two_-_007.online.vlog) | VASL Game Log | CWO_19 | 657 |
| VASL Log file (ASL_Scenario_-_BoF1_-_The_Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident_-_Take_Two_-_002.online.vlog.vsav.vlog) | VASL Game Log | CWO_19 | 678 |
| (Map ASL BoF1 The Marco Polo Bridge incident.png) | Map Image | esparver73 | 2038 |
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| Avg Rating: 7.07 | Votes: 42 | Views: | 6807 |
| To-Play list count: | 4 | |
| Estimated Play time: | 4.6 hours | |
| Recorded Games: | 31 | |
| Archive recorded plays: | ||
| Japanese | 15 | |
| Chinese | 16 | |
| Drawn: | 0 | |