It was back to Burma last night at the Mid Somerset Wargames club and scenario 4 from the bloody Burma book.
The two armoured cars didn’t make it far down the road before they were assaulted by some fanatic Japanese resulting in one crew bailing out and the other making a run for it from whence they came.
Meanwhile, to the south, a company of Gurkhas, rather too tentatively, approached a rather nasty looking road block which some well dug in Japanese.
I’m typical Japanese fashion, they close assaulted one of the sections but where driven back resulting in a firefight.
However the rather cautious approach of the Gurkha company resulted in the rest of the Japanese forces regrouping and holding the road.
All in all, a very good game.
Lessons learnt from the battle? Moving through the jungle is hell.
Chris Lane
