The Gin Drinker's Line CBI (id:#61622)
Designer: Joe Gochinski
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Balance:
JapaneseBritish
48.387096774194%

Overview:

After the successful capture of the Shing Mum Redoubt, the Japanese 38th Division began operations to clear the remaining positions of the Gin Drinker’s Line. Once this line was successfully cleared, Hong Kong proper would be open for invasion and capture. The men of the Japanese 38th Division were veterans of the fighting in China and attacked the Gin Drinker’s Line with zeal.
Attacker: Japanese (Elements of the 38th Division)
Defender: British (Elements of the 5th Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment)  
4.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:17.0 D:13.5
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0
Type 89 Heavy Grenade-Launcher x 2
D:0
OML 2-in. Mortar

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Grain and Orchard in season, all buildings considered Huts.
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-05-26(A) Mclowsky John vs A In progress
2025-05-04(A) Will Willow vs Randy Shurtz British win2.33 hrs
2025-04-12(A) Paul Legg vs Dan Lepore Japanese winFriday Night Fight Club.

Although this is recorded as a Japanese, it is a British moral win.

The Japanese were behind on both CVP and victory hexes. On the last turn the Japanese held only 1 victory hex and were poised to advance into 2 more, occupied by the Indians. 5 hexes need to be held by the Japanese and have more CVP. Dan forego voluntary breaking in both (one would have still given CVP due to ftr as no quarter had been invoked earlier. My Japanese naturally got the ambush in both hexes eliminating the Indians for no loss and then withdrawing into 2 further victory hexes. The result 27CVP +2 extra points for hut hexes held, total 29 points for the Indians and 25CVP +5 for hut hexes for the Japanese total of 30 points.

2025-04-11(A) Mark Thompson vs Martin Vicca (British) British winTo riff off the famous first line of Moby Dick (“Call Me Ishmael”), you can “Call me Ichiki” for my Japanese were quickly annihilated in aggressive Banzai charges much as Ichiki’s detachment was during the Battle of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal. The wire proved deadly and the CVP difference mid-game made it evident that my forces approaching the village would not be able to bridge it even by seizing all huts. Nonetheless, always fun to play Martin, and the dice were quite wild. Many of our SW busted and a few shots simply wiped whole units off the map (with a few boxcar MCs to boot). Fun scenario.
2025-04-11(A) David Garvin vs Stephen Cook British winFor Friday Night Fight Club
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Avg Rating: 7.31Votes: 32
Views: 6303
To-Play list count: 5
Estimated Play time: 3.5 hours
Recorded Games: 31
Archive recorded plays:
Japanese15
British14
Drawn:1

ROAR Data: (as of today)
The Gin Drinker's Line [Confirmed]
[A] Japanese 30
[D] British 34
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