Kunlun Pass Pictures

Dave, John & I played this game 27/12/11. All the pictures are from the first run through before we modified the scenario. As you can see its a rather short report as I got the play balance wrong.

Chinese FO looks over the battlefield

599th Regiment (in blue) with their supporting tanks and the 2nd Regiment (in brown). T-26 by Cromwell, L3/33 by Milicast

1st Company, 2nd Tank Regiment in support of the 2nd Regiment 1st Honour Div

Elements of II Battalion 42nd Infantry Regiment behind the barbed wire guarding ridge "VW"

Defenders of the pass: SHQ Type 38 gun and Vac-u-Cast Kurogane

The pass from the rear. The  Ro-Ke Tractor is a substitute for the Shi-Ki, manufacturer unknown

Defenders of ridgeline XY

2nd Company 3rd Mortar Battalion ready to support the Japanese front line

Gas Gas Gas!. The 2nd Company 2nd Tank Battalion attempts to storm the pass only to come under attack by Japanese gas shells. The gas attack promptly broke the Chinese tanks' morale

Ki-15 Bomber attacks the Honour Division

Shrugging off the air strike the Honour Division attacks the Japanese flank to the east of the pass

Although the IJAAF was more prevalent the Chinese Airforce did make an appearance. I-16 strafes the Japanese artillery

I-16 by Revel decals by Blue Rider

And that was about it for the first game. the Chinese had been comprehensively thrashed, indeed that had no real chance of winning

After a re-think we tried again (this is the scenario as it now stands on the website). Thankfully that was a much more evenly balanced game though we run out of time after the first day. The 200th Division stormed ridge XY and cleared it of the Japanese. A detachment of the 200th supported by their armour made a valiant attempt to storm the pass; by the end of the night they were approaching point Z but had not quite reached it.. On the Chinese right the 1st Honour Division had a toe-hold on ridge VM. Unfortunately no pics from the 2nd battle but it was a much better game