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CHAIN OF COMMAND. ARMY LISTS

Optional Army List from Juan Mancheo

JAPAN 1944.
THE RIFLE PLATOON The Japanese Rifle Platoon is a unit that had minimal changes during the war. Most of its emphasis was put in the close combat and the assault on the enemy, but this small unit was adapted also to other situations, especially in the second half of the war in the Pacific. The Japanese soldiers were not supermen but very tough combatants, able to use the terrain and the enemys mistakes to their advantage. Their moral was normally very high until the bitter end, moment in which they became fatalists. Most of the platoons can be rated as Regular but some of them, composed of Naval specialists, survivors of units, etc. could be rated as Green. PLATOON FORCE RATING: Regular: Green: Command Dice: JAPANESE PLATOON: PLATOON HEADQUARTERS. - Lieutenant, Senior Leader with pistol and sword - NCO, Senior Leader with rifle or SMG +2 -2 5

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SECTIONS ONE TO THREE. - Junior Leader with rifle - Type 11 or 96 LMG with four crew - Eight riflemen SECTION FOUR. - Junior Leader with rifle - Three Type 89 Grenade Discharger with two crews each - Six riflemen The Section of Grenade Dischargers can be divided in three teams and assigned to the other Squads as an additional team. JAPANESE SUPPORT LISTS. LIST ONE Satchel Charge Engineer Mine Clearance Team, 3 men Engineer Wire Cutting Team, 3 men Engineer Demolition Team, 3 men Medical Orderly Adjutant Minefield Barbed Wire Car, no crew Entrenchments for one Section LIST TWO Roadblock Sniper Team AT Suicide Team, 3 men Type 92 7,7mm MMG Team, 5 men Pre-Game Barrage LIST THREE Type 97 20mm AT Rifle Team, 2 men Type 11 70mm Mortar Team, 5 men Type 94 TK tankette MG armed with Junior Leader LIST FOUR Type 94 37mm AT gun with 4 crew and Junior Leader Infantry Diehard Squad with Junior Leader Engineer Section with Junior Leader Type 95 Ha-Go tank 37mm gun with Junior Leader Engineer Flamethrower Team, 2 men Forward Observer and 81mm mortar battery 20mm AA Gun, 4 crew with Junior Leader Type 2 Ka Mi Amph. Tank 37mm gun with Junior Leader

LIST FIVE Type 97 Chi-Ha tank 57mm gun, with Junior Leader Type 1 47mm AT gun with 4 crew and Junior Leader Type 92 70mm inf. gun with 4 crew and Junior Leader

LIST SIX Type 97 Kai Shinhoto Chi-Ha tank 47mm AT gun, with Junior Leader Type 1 Chi He Tank 75mm gun with Junior Leader LIST SEVEN Type 3 Chi Nu tank 75mm gun, with Junior Leader Type 1 Ho Ni SP 75mm gun with Junior Leader

Most of the support options on the list are self-explanatory and their qualities are covered by the National Arsenal Table. All tanks and armored fighting vehicles come with a Junior Leader. Transport only vehicles, such as the car, are simply vehicles which come with no crew. Remember to allocate men to drive these. The 50mm Grenade Discharger has only three rounds of smoke; the rest being HE grenades. It has not theoretical minimum range, but at less than 12 the crew would normally use their rifles for reasons of their
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own safety. However, if using a 50mm grenade discharger to fire on a target under 12, roll a D6 for each hit achieved. On a roll of 3 to 6, the shrapnel from the round has hit the target Unit and the enemy will dice for the Hit Effect as normal. On a roll of 1 or 2, the shrapnel from the round has hit the mortar Team and they must roll for the Hit Effect on Table 6 The AT Suicide Team is a Tank Hunter team equipped with different AT weapons such as AT Mines, Petrol Bombs, Satchel Charges, etc. The figure will says which weapon is used. There are not special rules for the suicidal tactics used. The Infantry Diehard squad can represent a unit of survivor looking for an honorable death in battle, a suicidal group, etc. It has, of course the special rule Diehards. A Leader armed with a sword will count his figure in the Close Combat. JAPANESE NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS. Gyokusai. With two Chain of Command dice, the Japanese player can announces a desperate step, a Gyokusai (Crushing of the Jewels) that will send ALL his forces to a self-sacrificial battle with the intention to win it or die in the name of the Emperor. From that moment, all the infantry/cavalry and armored troops of the player will lose their Shock points and, on the other hand, they will have the obligation of charge against the enemy to fight in close combat with it during the rest of the game. Aggressiveness. All the Japanese infantry are Aggressive.

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THE JAPANESE ARSENAL TABLE. The Arsenal Table below covers a wide range of Japanese support options. For Infantry weapons and some armored vehicle armament, see Table Four, The Master Arsenal Table. JAPANESE ARSENAL TABLE VEHICLE Type 94 TK tankette MGs Type 2 Ka Mi 37mm Type 95 Ha-Go 37mm Type 97 Chi-Ha 57mm Type 97 Kai Shinhoto Chi-Ha 47mm AT Type 3 Chi Nu 75mm gun Type 1 Chi He 75mm gun Type 1 Ho Ni SP 75mm gun ANTI-TANK WEAPONS Type 94 37mm AT gun Type 1 47mm AT gun 20mm AA Gun Type 97 Anti-Tank Rifle TANKS AND ARMOURED VEHICLES ARMOUR A.P. H.E. 2 MG 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 3 7 6 5 6 6 5 5 4 6 ANTI-TANK GUNS A.P. 5 6 4 3 SPEED Average Average Average Average Slow Average Average Slow NOTES Low profile, Small

No MG, Open toped H.E. 3 3 6 1