Hi ;)
We had a game today in our local club : the scenario was about the fight between japanese and italian armies in Tsiensin, 1943, after Italy joined Allied side in Europe...
Here is an excellent video explaining the context (in english ;) ) of this "forgotten battle" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlSi2Zr-h_Y
Japanese forces were attacking the objectives held by Italian forces (blue colours on the pictures)... Things went really bad for Italian army : they lost the game !
There were real heroic moments for the Italian side, when the howitzers managed to shell a Japanese battle group, or when the Italian armored car damaged a Japanese tank before exploding because a 37mm gun direct hit...
Rules set used "Groupe Franc" (written by Pierre) : link to come as an update will be released soon...
Here are some pictures of the drama... ;D
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After a debriefing we had following this battle, I really think that Italian deployment was quite poor... I should have optimized it... Having deployed a mortar section instead of a combat infantry unit in a building was a bad idea... A japanese assault wiped the motars from the building...
Miniatures and scenery painted by Pierre.
Cheers,
Xavier
Another lovely game of an interesting historical match-up - great job, chaps!
Simon
Fascinating; I didn't even know the Italians had fought the Japanese in WWII. Beautifully presented game.
Quote from: Leman (Andy) on July 09, 2023, 09:02:13 AM
Fascinating; I didn't even know the Italians had fought the Japanese in WWII. Beautifully presented game.
They could have... Tsiensin, China was an Italian colony with a company or more of marines. I believe on the Italian change of sides they surrendered to the Japanese, but there was no love lost between the former allies... a conflict could easily have broken out very easily at that time.
P.S.great looking game/models