Fire and Fury Games' Battlefront WWII John Rigleys Early-War Russia-Japan game

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John Rigley ran a scenario of an Russia-Japanese battle using early war equipment. Historically, the Japanese and Russians skirmished in the late 1930's at the Manchurian border and the Japanese were convincingly defeated. This little known campaign had critical consequences in that their loss was one of the reasons they later decided not to help the Germans in 1941 by attacking from the East while Barbarossa was in progress.

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Russ-Japan 01	Russian tanks with infantry support moving up.
Russ-Japan 02	Two companies of Japanese cav riding hard to the front.
Russ-Japan 03	Japanese tanks and bike riding infantry moving up
Russ-Japan 04	The Russian turkey shoot starts.
Russ-Japan 05	After two rounds of Russian fire,the Japanese tanks are burning wrecks.
Russ-Japan 06	Some Japanese counter fire from two 150mm guns gains some revenge for their lost tanks.
Russ-Japan 07	Japanese cav dismounts and starts to move up.
Russ-Japan 08	Russian tanks and infantry move up.
Russ-Japan 09	Japanese Infantry moves up behind their burning tanks geting ready for a Banzai attack. The burning tank in the center was killed by a ATR as he tried to do mass overruns.
Russ-Japan 10	The first infantry company Banzai charges with tank support.
Russ-Japan 11	The second infantry company Banzai charges into four tanks.
Russ-Japan 12	Two Russian tanks burning and one running for the lost of one tank.
Russ-Japan 13	The Japanese CO gets lucky, and gets one tank burning. But two Japanese infantry were lost.

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