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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: mikos khan on April 24, 2023, 02:10:02 AM
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A couple of weeks ago we decided to take a break from our usual ACW2 style Interwar games to try a game set in 1930s China. The antagonists were a force of Japanese Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) and some Bolsheviks led by the communist renegade Vladimir Sunofabichski pitted against the dreaded Chinese warlord Chuk Fu with some White Russan mercenaries. Due to the size of the forces involved the battle was shaping up to be a fairly standard meeting engagement so I pulled a pre-painted duck out of my figure box and made it the objective of Chuk Fu who wanted it for his dinner. The battle opened with an exchange of fire by both sides which the SNLF were initially winning due to their superior firepower but the Chinese were able to seize the wooded area in the middle of the table. Once this occurred a close range melee developed in the woods and eventually they were able to use their greater numbers to prevail (helped by a lucky victory in an armored car duel against my newly painted Type 92 armored car). Once this occurred the SNLF and Bolsheviks withdrew (but not before killing the hapless Chuk Fu). BTW the Peking Duck survived.
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The SNLF advance
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More Japanese
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Warlord forces
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Battle for the woods
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The fight in the center continues
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The Chinese prevail
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Looks like fun! It’s not many pictorial AARs I search through muttering “nice miniatures………interesting setting……..now, where’s that duck?…..duck, duck, duck………..oh there it is, brilliant!” Like a wargaming themed, avian Where’s Wally (Waldo for our trans Atlantic friends). I then looked up to see my wife looking worriedly at me! lol
Thank you, I hope the game was as enjoyable as the duck hunt. I need to find some 15mm equivalents for my table.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Nice one - SNLF have always fascinated me for some reason, and I have some 54mm conversions painted but they have yet to get into battle. This all looked great.
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Great looking game. :-*
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Looks great fun and I finally found the duck lol
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Looks like Chuk Fu ate lead in place of the duck that got away. Thanks for sharing looks like it was a fun game.
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An unusual context and a fun game, thanks for sharing. :)
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I found the duck!
Those Friday Night Irregulars are irregular in many ways. lol
Went by Friday past and there was some sort of Musketeers verses more or less anyone else. Even a very flamboyant Count of Monte Cristo who was apparently a bit of overly bad ass opponent.
[I think when I get my musketeers going I will need to paint up a figure as the Count of Mount Crisco. ;)]
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It took me a minute, but I too found the bespoke duck.
As for Chuk Fu's fate, remember what Mr. T always said on The A team: "I pity the Fu..." 8)
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took me a while to find the duck, but got there eventually.
Where did the Type 92 come from?
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I got it from a seller on E-bay but unfortunately I can't remember the vendors name. Sorry.
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The Chinese warlord fielded mostly bandit forces, as his regulars are still acquiring uniforms. (painting). He also fielded White Russian troops.
Chuk Fu was the squad leader of the do or die squad that was out in front. That figure got all the attention from the Japanese forces because of some resemblance to another gamer. The warlord stayed behind and was untouched by Bolshevik or Japanese forces. The warlord name was Low Fat and his girlfriend was Miso Honii.
No doubt all these characters will be making another appearance before long.
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I am looking forward to seeing further battles.
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He who writes the After Action Report gets to name the enemy commander! Also Miso Honii? Sounds like a Japanese collaborator with the Chinese. We'll have to do a hunt for her next time.
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Well, if a Roman Emperor can order his men to Attack Neptune and collect seashells, and they'll do it, why not go after a duck? Excellent setup by the way and a really good looking game.
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We can do a second game with the duck and then we need to do a game with a Goose. Duck duck Goose....
More of the Chinese warlard troops are painted and should be making an appearance soon.
Watch for our other games including a Zimmerman Telegram game in Texas/Mexico.
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And we just played a Train game in the Northwest Frontier.
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Maybe we should have called it the Beijing duck