Speed is the Essence of War PTO (id:#63066)
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Slim River, Malaya 1942-01-07 ()
Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
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Balance:
JapaneseBritish
53.846153846154%

Overview:

The British were in full retreat from northern Malaya. Two battered Indian brigades were arranged in depth back through Trolak to the Slim River bridge. In the early morning hours of 7 January, a Japanese tank company accompanied by truck-borne infantry charged down the road. The Japanese tanks quickly overran the bulk of the 12th Brigade, and next up for lighting-fast defeat was the 28th Brigade. Because of very poor British communications, the brigade were unaware of the impending threat, and the Japanese caught them on the move.
Attacker: Japanese (No more details)
Defender: British (No more details)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:8.0 D:13.0
AFVs: A:6
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:4

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules:
Overlays: OG5 P1 P3
Errata (source)
Question: Per SSR 5, British Guns and Infantry start the game pinned. May they still set up HIP/concealed? Answer: Yes. (A PTC causes concealment loss, but units pinned [for other reasons] may well be HIP/concealed.)FrF website
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-06-21(A) Michael Rodgers vs Ed Beekman Japanese winAs the British, I had trouble comprehending the VC properly and it hurt my play. I was expecting the Japanese infantry and tanks to move together, but the tanks raced ahead.
2023-12-26(D) Richard Jenulis vs David Wolfe British winThe Japanese pushed hard and fast down the middle. They were able to capture the bridge, but could not hold it.
2023-11-18(A) Asad Rustum vs Hans Bugge British winSupporting Fire 2023 Round 4
2023-11-18(A) Tuomo Lukkari vs Andreas Carlsson British win[Imported from ROAR]
2020-05-24(A) Stephen dedier vs Crawford, Brent British winJapanese got onto the board in reasonable order freezing the already Pinned British infantry in the buildings and pushing the trucks down the road. My strategy was to get as far as I could on one turn, unload the infantry and Banzai to the village.
The Brits took out one truck and passengers but the other 5 trucks got unloaded to form a line. Meanwhile other infantry with the FT moved through to clear out the infantry now behind the main thrust.
Banzai charge made it to the village but the Brits took out one unit with a gun KIA and striped/reduced others. I managed to get a tank to the bridge on turn 3 but now had limited resources (3 squads a crew and one leader) in the village with 4 tanks. Gurkhas came on quickly and were formed up to hit back by turn 3. I lost all my outlying infantry to good shooting and good tactics by Brent so was left with only my guys in the village. I managed to do a lot of damage on turn 4 blunting the attack but malfed my MMG and was down to 2 FS, crew and a HS by this point using my tanks as the main defence.
Unfortunately for the Japanese, the British only have to have one squad equivalent in a building at the end and they get the last turn. My meager force had to try to defend all 4 buildings and Brent had one of his 88's positioned so it could throw smoke to cover the attack. I took out a number of attacking units but couldn't keep a FS from getting into building with my HS and crew. I couldn't win the CC so Brent took it in the end. We both made some bad play decisions and had really hot or really cold dice on turns but a fun scenario with conditions changing throughout.
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mtrodgers99 Added a playing2025-07-06 02:35:04
RJenulis Added a playing2023-12-26 22:41:17
atomic Added a playing2023-12-11 19:32:59
Jude Added a playing2023-02-25 02:15:19
Jude Rated the scenario2023-02-25 02:14:46
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Estimated Play time: 4.8 hours
Recorded Games: 9
Archive recorded plays:
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Drawn:0

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Speed Is the Essence of War
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[A] British 12
[D] Japanese 5
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