Hundred Regiments Offensive CBI (id:#60692)
(BFP 3: Blood and Jungle ID: BFP-34)   [next]   [previous]
Shanxi Province, China 1940-09-03 ()
Designer: Chas Smith
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
Red ChineseJapanese
37.68115942029%

Overview:

The Hundred Regiments Offensive (August – 5 December 1940) was a major campaign of the Communist Party of China's National Revolutionary Army divisions commanded by Peng Dehuai against the Imperial Japanese Army in Central China. The Japanese North China Area Army estimated the strength of communist regulars to be about 88,000 in December 1939. Two years later, they revised the estimate to 140,000. On the eve of the battle, the Communist forces grew to 400,000 men strong, in 105 regiments. The extraordinary success and expansion of the 8th Route Army against the Japanese had Zhu De and the rest of the military leadership hoping that they could engage the Japanese army and win. By 1940, growth was so impressive that Zhu De ordered a coordinated offensive by most of the communist regulars (46 regiments from the 115th Division, 47 from the 129th, and 22 from the 120th) against the Japanese-held cities and the railway lines linking them.
Attacker: Red Chinese (Elements of 129th Red Chinese (CCP) Division, 8th Route Army)
Defender: Japanese (Elements of the North China Area Army)  
7 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:21.0 D:16.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0
Type 89(j) Heavy-Grenade Launcher x 2
50mm RM obr 38(r) x 2
D:0
Type 89 Heavy Grenade-Launcher x 2
Year-11 Type Flat-Trajectory Infantry Gun

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: PTO, LJ (Exc: Roads exist). All buildings are Wooden. D: no HIP set up
Overlays: O2
Errata (source)
BFP34: Chinese 50mm MTR(r ) should have 5PPBFP website
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2024-05-07(D) Will Willow vs Neal Ekengren Japanese winSomewhat misplayed.
2024-02-13(D) Louis Langdeau vs CR Holmes Japanese winWhat a game! Both my opponent and I hadn't played PTO before, so the first bit of the game was us figuring out rules. CR tried to push evenly along a wide front, with the majority of his force on the North in the woods. His game plan was to try and get into the bamboo in front of my buildings as a jumping off point, and then close to CC to try and drag me down. His troops getting Stealthy made close combat much less of a guarantee for me, and some of my positioning was non-optimal, with no great options for fire groups. Coupled with Japanese FP being 3 on most of my early troops, that led to a lot of low value shots. Fortunately for me, our inexperience with PTO told more on CR's side. In the wall of movement in the north he forgot to keep a leader with his Dare Death squads. As it turned out, the fight in the large Northern cluster of buildings could have gone either way, but eventually I moved a squad in (which got CXed for difficult terrain), went HtH, and managed to pick up a couple of CR's units that had made it in. At that point the front stabilized, and my remaining troops came in to start picking up straggling routing units that CR had been forced to leave behind.

Incredibly good scenario (possibly my favorite I've played so far). There's a lot of neat rules in PTO, especially on the nationality level, and the scenario gives a ton of room for different approaches. I'm definitely going to leave this on my want-to-play list.
2022-08-13(D) walter mcwilliams vs Tom Kearney Red Chinese win
2019-02-21(A) David Shannon vs Tim Reade Japanese winFirst time playing as Chinese and it was fun, but ultimately my attack faltered when my best leader stacked with two crews manning MMG's all went beserk and charged off towards the enemy only to die in a hail of bullets.
2016-12-30(A) Dan Best vs Kevin Bradshaw Japanese win
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(view)JacksonsGhost2017-10-17 14:01:32
The Russian pattern mortars are actually the RM obr. 38, but that type is not a listed option here (yet) so I've listed them as the almost identical RM obr. 40.

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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 7.14Votes: 14
Views: 6257
To-Play list count: 4
Estimated Play time: 6 hours
Recorded Games: 13
Archive recorded plays:
Red Chinese5
Japanese8
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Hundred Regiments Offensive [Confirmed]
[A] CCP (Partisan) 21
[D] Japanese 35
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