Date | Reporter | | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Comments |
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2024-04-22 | (D) Jeff B | vs | Scott Sherer | | Chinese win | Scott decided on an approach entirely east of the stream, even with his reinforcements. The good news is that he was able to muster some massive firepower; the bad news is that his approach was limited to three hexes. Any way you slice it, this is brutal terrain to attack through. This game will obviously see a fair share of banzai. He was able to punch into the central valley on Turn 3, grabbing his first building, and take complete control of the higher hill on Turn 4. Turn 5 saw us snap our strange streak of each of us only having casualties on our own half of the turn after we wiped each other out in the first of what would be many CCs. He grabbed one more building. With only two turns left I thought I did a sufficient job of blocking the way with bodies, but his Turn 6 banzai taught me otherwise, and both of our body counts that turn matched the entirety of our losses up until that point. Still he only took one more building, and would need seven more on his last turn. With three all but guaranteed, and three more a relative certainty (I thought), I figured it would come down to strongly protecting one building (or being forced to recapture one on my last turn). I had deemed my reinforcements an unnecessary luxury, but in the end I was in dire need of them to stave off the Jap horde, as Turn 7 once again eclipsed our previous turn's body count. But in the end the Japs came up short with only seven buildings. |
2024-01-30 | (D) Will Willow | vs | Neal Ekengren | | Chinese win | Went to last Japanese turn where they ended up with five bldgs. |
2023-12-29 | (D) Rob Schmitt | vs | Scott Martin | | Japanese win | I was Chinese defender vs Japanese attacker. VP was for Japanese player to capture greater or equal to 10 buildings. Infantry only game. Japanese advanced across the entire front. I was able to defend well on my left flank and inflict many causalities. These units held out to the final game turn 7. My defense on the right was not able to slow him down enough to stop him short of the final victory buildings in the center. My turn 4 reinforcements did reach a couple of the center buildings but he had already grabbed the others. My mortars both broke quickly and were never effective. My DMed squads were not able to fall back and rally due to efficient Japanese encirclement movements. Close game that came down to just a few melee rolls on the final turn. |
2023-07-02 | (D) Jobbo Fett | vs | RootinPutin | | Japanese win | W10 is a stream hex.
A third party brought up the fact that W10, as seen in VASL, isn't a stream hex. Since this was brought up at the start of the game and we could not find a rules reference otherwise, we played it as open ground. The amount of movement this gave the Japanese allowed them to immediately set up a foothold on the near side of the water and in front of my concealed defenders. Sadly, the close combats were anything but, and by the end of the 2nd Japanese turn things looked decided. We played it out for another two game turns until I threw in the towel - the Chinese mortars never managed to fire more than one shot each, my machine gun never got rate, and the attrition-style game I was hoping to play didn't pan out. Afterwards, we both agreed that W10 should've been a stream hex. (Because of the VASL board, we couldn't even truly determine what the true nature of that hex would've been otherwise so we deemed it Open Ground to get on with playing.) |
2022-11-11 | (A) Will Willow | vs | Arlen Vanek | | Chinese win | NTSO 2022 |
2022-06-08 | (A) walter mcwilliams | vs | Tom Kearney | | Chinese win | |
2022-02-18 | (D) Paul Legg | vs | Jeff Wright | | Japanese win | A tight game, My Chinese kept the Japanese at bay for a couple of turns allowing the turn 4 reinforcements to get to the village just before the Japanese arrived. My forces withdrew at just the right time to avoid most of the initial banzai crossing the stream. Equipment failure and a poor performance under fire in the def fire phase in the Chinese turn 6 might the final turn hard. |
2021-02-09 | (D) Bob Schaaf | vs | Wayne Saunders | | Japanese win | Really fun scenario. First jump back into the PTO in a long time. Chinese right held well, but the main IJA push on the gave the GMD defenders on that flank a right beating. Brief bright spot when the Chinese Sniper striped a squad and almost immediately after eliminated the IJA 9-0 leader. Threw in the towel when two squads fell in separate close combats without taking out any IJA units, and much of the defense on that flank was cowering in the jungle. |
2020-09-07 | (A) David Garvin | vs | Kedge | | Japanese win | |
2019-10-13 | (D) Steve Buckley | vs | Greg Barsness | | Chinese win | I tried to sacrifice squads here and there to delay how fast Greg's IJA took the front 6 buildings and the Level 2 hill. This barely gave my reinforcements time to get to the back 6 buildings. Greg had some great ROF with those #$%^ knee mortars (they have WF even in '37); but that was balanced out by a few 12's rolled on MC's of his 447's and some of my low DFF rolls that bypassed his striping. Game was decided on the last turn CC when my Chinese Dare Death squad lead a leader and 2 other squads to retake Greg's 10th building, denying him the win. |
2017-08-21 | (A) Lawrence Spangler | vs | Diane Spangler | | Chinese win | |
2017-07-28 | (D) Kermit Mullins | vs | Rob Wirthlin | | Japanese win | STL Tournament. My Chinese held for three turns then crumbled and that was that. |
2017-07-28 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Richard Burton | | Chinese win | St. Louis ASL Tournament 2017. |
2017-05-29 | (A) Dave Mareske | vs | Dan Best | | Chinese win | Tough slow advance with the Japanese winning very few CCs. |
2017-05-29 | (D) Dan Best | vs | Dave Mareske | | Chinese win | |
2016-09-24 | (A) Jeff Waldon | vs | Frank Tozier | | Japanese win | VASL - A steady Japanese advance with plenty of hand to hand fighting, but no banzai, cleared the Chinese from the victory buildings and blocked the reinforcements. A last turn Chinese counterattack was brave yet fruitless. |
2016-07-23 | (D) Simon Staniforth | vs | | | Japanese win | |
2016-03-11 | (D) Simon Staniforth | vs | | | Chinese win | |
2015-01-24 | (D) Rich Weiley | vs | Malcolm Cameron | | Chinese win | CANCON 2015 - Round two |
2015-01-23 | (D) Bill Brodie | vs | Aaron Cleavan | | Japanese win | Cancon 2015. Played Aaron, who is a former Grofas. He used banzai very effectively, but I was hanging on. I had my share of luck, killing two Japanese leaders on the first turn, but roll seven (7!!) boxcars on morale rolls. Still, I was in the game on the last turn, and finally got my first snake eyes on morale check. Yay, battle harden, hero, even berserk would make it hard for him to win. The result: surrender! |
2014-12-10 | (D) fabrizio da pra | vs | Paolo Cariolato | | Chinese win | I enjoyed this scenario, Paolo lauched one Banzai after the other and gained ground but lost too many squad in the process, turn two saw two banzai charges the one in the jungle pitted 5 squad on both side in combat but i rolled so low as the chinese that at the end of turn 3 on this side there was only one squad left of the original 5.
On the other side of the map he was able to get to the houses thanks to smoke, one of my squad that broke under WP and particularly because two of my MG positioned to place fire lanes cowered rolling two snakes in a row (he was coming at me in smoke so the roll was useless)
In the end the losses were too high for him, even when he got in HtH with my squads I was always able to at least CR his squads.
My reinforcements got on the map unopposed and were in perfect shape to defend the second group of houses while the Japanese had melted away.
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2014-12-10 | (A) Paolo Cariolato | vs | Fabrizio Da Pra | | Chinese win | |
2014-07-25 | (A) Michael Rodgers | vs | John Richards | | Chinese win | I had the Japanese. I chose the focus my attack on the Japanese right. This turned out to be a mistake; it took too long. As well, around Chinese turn 5, his dice got hot and mine got cold. I conceded when it seemed like I could not win. |
2013-06-08 | (A) Steve Bowen | vs | TB | | Japanese win | Playing as the Japanese I must have launched 8 or 9 Banzai attacks. It only worked because my opponent was too spread out and not really thinking about Banzai defense. Well balanced scenario that needs an experienced Chinese defender. |
2013-05-24 | (D) Richard Jenulis | vs | Bill Owen | | Chinese win | Enfilade 2013 |
2013-03-26 | (A) Richard Carter | vs | Chris Doary | | Chinese win | I had some good luck throughout, and some good advancing into position for the end game. The problem is that the Japanese have very little room for error. they've got to take almost every bldg on the map. 10/12 that is and bldgs are quite close to each other . Anyway, my last turn was dismal. 2 failed CC's, one which allowed a conscript to retreat from ambush and another that let a chinese first liner to retreat due to being concealed. to take back enough bldgs for the win. Ugghh! Anyway, very fun scenario!
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2012-03-05 | (A) Kevin Killeen | vs | Tom Sharp | | Japanese win | |
2012-02-23 | (D) Bob Callen | vs | Russ Hall | | Chinese win | Russ played a good game, I had a lot of good shots early and he had trouble passing MC. Eventually he got through and almost saved the game with a WP round that broke my 9 leader and a squad in a wood building, but I was able to stack up enough units to prevent him moving to gain control of the necessary buildings in a final turn rush. |
2011-09-03 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Larry Zoet | | Japanese win | Sioux City ASL Tournament 2011. |
2011-08-31 | (A) X von Marwitz | vs | David Wallace | | Chinese win | |
2011-07-11 | (A) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | Michel Bongiovanni | | Japanese win | |
2011-01-22 | (A) Richard Jenulis | vs | Darren Kovac | | Chinese win | NWASL Championship 2011 |
2010-12-04 | (A) Michael Rodgers | vs | Chris Fleury | | Chinese win | NY tournament |
2010-09-18 | (A) Michael Rodgers | vs | Reg Plummer | | Japanese win | |
2010-06-01 | (D) Bill Brodie | vs | Sean Hodgman | | Japanese win | Updating old records |