IJA 1St ASSAULT INFANTRY
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IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL HEADQUATERS HEADQUATERS (1) You must eld the HQ and two Combat platoons. You may choose additional Artillery, Support and Reserve. Regimental HQ (1) COMBAT PLATOONS INFANTRY (1) INFANTRY (1) INFANTRY (1) ARTILLERY (2) Regimental Platoon Regimental Platoon Regimental Platoon Gun Platoon WEAPON PLATOONS RECONNAISSANCE (3) INFANTRY (3) MACHINE-GUNS (4) ARTILLERY (4) Recon Platoon Engenieer Platoon Machine-gun Platoon Mortar Platoon SUPPORT PLATOONS ARTILLERY (5) AIRCRAFT (6) RESERVE (6) Anti-Tank Platoon Air Support Submarine and Destroyer Reserve FEARLESS Rating for the Ichiki Detachment 28th VETERAN 3rd is fearless veteran. IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL HEADQUARTERS HEADQUARTERS Company Command 2iC Command Company HQ 1st 45 Rie/MG team Rie/MG team Add AT Gun team 35 AT GUN team AT GUN team Add LMG team 25 LMG Type 96 team LMG Type 96 team Add SMG 5 COMBAT PLATOONS HQ Command Light Mortar team Regimental Platoon Squad 3 Squads 1st 280 2 Squads 1st 140 Rie/MG teams Rie/MG teams Squad Add LMG team 25 Rie/MG teams Rie/MG teams Add Sniper team 50 Squad Add Lung mines for each squad. Rie/MG teams Rie/MG teams Combat platoons may use the “ght to the end” rule. LMG Type 96 team Sniper team FEARLESS Rating for the Ichiki Detachment 28st VETERAN is fearless veteran. 1 IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL GUN PLATOON HQ Command Gun Platoon Command Rie/MG team Observer Rie team Section Gun Sections 28th 60 Add Observer Rie team 15 Type 92 70mm gun Type 92 70mm gun Use re burst rule. You may make combat attachments FEARLESS Rating for the Ichiki Detachment 28st VETERAN is fearless veteran. 2 IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL WEAPON PLATOONS RECONNAISSANCE HQ Command Recon Platoon Squad 2 Squads 1st 230 1 Squad 1st 115 Rie/MG teams Rie/MG teams Squad Rie/MG teams Rie/MG teams INFANTRY Pioneers HQ Command Engineer Platoon Squad 3 Engineer Squads 220 2 Engineer Squads 150 Pioneer Rie/MG teams Pioneer Rie/MG teams Pioneer Rie/MG teams 1 Engineer Squad 75 Squad Add Pioneer Supply 1.5-ton truck 25 Pioneer Rie/MG teams Pioneer Rie/MG teams Pioneer Rie/MG teams Squad Engineers are Pioneer Platoons with Tank Assault 4 You may change one Rie/MG team in a squad with a ame-thrower Pioneer Rie/MG teams Pioneer Rie/MG teams Pioneer Rie/MG teams FEARLESS Rating for the Ichiki Detachment 28st VETERAN is fearless veteran. 3 IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL WEAPON PLATOONS MACHINE-GUN PLATOON HQ Command HMG Platoon Command Rie/MG team Section 2 Sections 1st 160 1 Section 1st 80 Type 3 HMG team Type 3 HMG team Section You may make combat attachments Type 3 HMG team Type 3 HMG team ARTILLERY - MEDIUM MORTAR PLATOON HQ Command Medium Mortar Platoon Command Rie/MG team Observer Rie/MG team Section 2 Mortar Sections 160 1 Mortar Section 70 Mortar team Mortar team Mortar team Section Add Observer 15 Mortar team Mortar team Mortar team FEARLESS Rating for the Ichiki Detachment 28st VETERAN is fearless veteran. 4 IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL WEAPONS PLATOONS ANTI-TANK PLATOON HQ Command Anti-tank Platoon Command Rie/MG team Section 2 Gun Sections 1st 200 1 Gun Section 1st 100 Type 94 37mm gun Type 94 37mm gun Type 94 37mm gun Section Type 94 37mm gun Type 94 37mm gun Type 94 37mm gun Use rapid re rule. FEARLESS Rating for the Ichiki Detachment 28st VETERAN is fearless veteran. 5 IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL SUPPORT PLATOONS RESERVE Submarine and Destroyer Support Submarine and Destroyer Support 50 You can land your troops, when they come from reserve, at any edge 40cm (in sight of enemy) or concealed 20cm away. See special rules. AIRCRAFT Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” Air support Sporadic 1 Flight A6M “Zero” 90 Mitsubishi G4M “Betty Bomber” 1 Flight “Betty Bomber” 100 Naval Support platoons are CONFIDENT rated as condent veteran. SUPPORT VETERAN 6 IJA 1st ASSAULT INFANTRY 28th ICHIKI DETACHMENT ON GUADALCANAL THE JAPANESE FORCES ON GUADALCANAL With the start of the Pacic War in 1941, ocer Kiyonao Ichiki was promoted to colonel and was placed in command of the IJA 28th Infantry Regiment, from the 7th Division, which consisted of 3,000 troops, and was originally assigned to assault and occupy Midway island. The defeat of Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 ended that operation. In August 1942, Ichiki and his regiment were transferred to the IJA 17th Army and were based at Truk in the Caroline Islands. After the Allied Landing on Guadalcanal, Ichiki was assigned to take a portion of his regiment (2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, with artillery and engineers - nicknamed the “Ichiki Detachment”) to recapture the now called Henderson Aireld and drive the Allied forces o the island. On 19 August, six Japanese destroyers carried Ichiki and his 916 troops from Truk and landed them at Taivu Point on Guadalcanal. Ichiki had been ordered to wait on the beachhead for the remainder of his regiment. But the beach was deserted and the island apparently lightly defended. So Ichiki underestimated the strength of the American forces on the island and left a rear guard of 125 men and advanced to for a nighttime frontal assault. Unknown to Ichiki, the American Marines were aware of his landing and were entrenched and in fortied defensive positions. In the Battle of the Tenaru of 21 August 1942 Ichiki was defeated with extremely heavy losses The Battle of Guadalcanal - 7 August 1942 – 9 February 1943 The battle for Guadalcanal, codenamed „Operation Watchtower“ (7 August 1942 – 19 February 1943) was the rst battle in the American amphibious campaign against Japanese Forces in the Pacic. It was fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacic theatre of WWII. On 7 August 1942 the newly formed 1st Marine Division landed at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The main target was the aireld that was under construction at nearby Red Beach. It was known as 'Lunga’ Point', or as well 'Runga Point' to the Japanese (code named RXI), and became later known as Henderson Field, named in honor of Major Lofton Henderson in the Battle of Midway. The strip would allow to use Guadalcanal as a base and for strategic use – most wanted by both forces, Allied and Japanese. Supported by powerful US naval forces the Marines landed at Guadalcanal where they overwhelmed the Japanese defenders and seized the aireld as well as their radio station, food stocks and other useful materials. Huge naval battles between the US Marines and Japanese forces followed, Japanese planes dominated the sky over the area, air raids happened several times per day. Japanese soldiers adapted the jungle ghting which was a hard target to the US Marines, nding an unfamiliar terrain and territory. The Japanese Forces defended themselves and their country bravely and tried to retake Henderson Field, the US Marines defended Henderson Field for which they had fought so hard. After three major land battles, several large naval battles and air raids and battles November 1942 saw the Japanese Forces defeated decisively, although campaigns continued into 1943. Between 1 – 19 February 1943 the Japanese Seventeenth Army evacuated from Guadalcanal. At Guadalcanal started the long way to the nal Japanese surrender and the end of World War II. The price paid was very high on both sides. 7 JAPANESE ARSENAL 1942 / 1943 JAPANESE ARSENAL GUADALCANAL TANKS Type 97 Chi-Ha Shinhoto Standard, Front: 2 Side: 2 Top: 1 - Turret MG, Hull MG, smoke “Type 97 47mm gun Range: 24” / 60cm ROF: 2 AT: 7 FP: 4+ Type 97 Chi-Ha Standard, Front: 2 Side: 2 Top: 1 - Turret MG, Hull MG, smoke “Type 90 57mm gun Range: 16” / 40cm ROF: 2 AT: 5 FP: 4+ Type 95 Ha-Go Standard, Front: 1 Side: 1 Top: 1 - Turret MG, Hull MG, one-man turret “Type 94 37mm gun Range: 24” / 60cm ROF: 2 AT: 5 FP: 4+ Type 2 Ka-Mi Slow,20cm Front: 1 Side: 1 Top: 1 - Turret MG, Hull MG, one-man turret, amphibious tank “Type 94 37mm Range: 24” / 60cm ROF: 2 AT: 5 FP: 4+ Type 97 Ke-Te Standard, Front: 1 Side: 1 Top: 1 - Turret MG, Hull MG, one-man turret, amphibious tank “Type 94 37mm Range: 24” / 60cm ROF: 2 AT: 5 FP: 4+ TANK MGs: Range 40cm ROF: 3 AT: 2: FP: 6 - ROF 1 if other weapons re GUNS Type 3 HMG - man-packed, Range: 24”/60cm ROF:6 AT:2 FP: 6 - ROF 3 when pinned or moved Type 92 70mm AT gun - man-packed, Range: 8”/20cm ROF:2 AT:3 FP: 3 “ reing bombardment: 40”/100cm AT:2 FP: 6 Type 94 37mm AT gun - light, Range: 24”/60cm ROF:3 AT:6 FP: 4+ - Gun Shield Type 38 75mm gun - light, Range: 24”/60cm ROF:2 AT:6 FP: 3+ - Gun Shield, Smoke “ reing bombardment: 40”/100cm AT:3 FP: 6 Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar - man-packed, 16”/40cm ROF:2 AT:2 FP: 6 - AA Mine Discharger “ reing bombardment: 40”/100cm AT:3 FP: 6 Type 89 122mm - immobile, Range: 30”/80cm ROF:3 AT:14 FP: 2+ - Breakthrough gun “ reing bombardment: 80”/200cm AT:6 FP: 3+ Type 92 105mm - immobile, Range: 40”/100cm ROF:1 AT:14 FP: 2+ - Breakthrough gun, Gun Shield “ reing bombardment: 96”/240cm AT:4 FP: 4+ Type 96 150mm - immobile, Range: 24”/600cm ROF:1 AT:12 FP: 1+ - Bunker buster, Gun Shield “ reing bombardment: 80”/200cm AT:5 FP: 2+ ANTI-AIRCRAFT 20mm AA Gun truck - Wheeled, Range: 16”/24cm ROF:4 AT:4FP:5+ - Anti-Aircraft Type 38 75mm - immobile, Range: 24”/100cm ROF:3 AT:11 FP: 3+ - Anti-Aircraft INFANTRY Sword team 4”/10cm ROF:1 AT:1 FP:6 - Hits on a 2+ in Assaults and has Tank Assault of 1 Rie team 16”/40cm ROF:1 AT:2 FP:6 Rie/MG team 16”/40cm ROF:2 AT:2 FP:6 - ROF 2 when pinned LMG team 16”/40cm ROF:5 AT:2 FP:6 - ROF 2 when pinned Light Mortar Type 89 - 16”/40cm ROF:1 AT:1 FP:4+ Lung mines (Nikuhaku) - human bullet, improvised Tank Assault 4 Sta team 16”/40cm ROF:1 AT:2 FP:6 Pioneer teams are rated as Tank Assault 3 FORTIFICATIONS HMG Bunker immobile 24”/60cm ROF: 6 AT: 2 FP: 6 - ROF 3 when pinned AIRCRAFT A6M “Zero” : MG toHit: 2+ AT: 6 FP: 5+ Bombs: to Hit: 4+ AT: 5 FP: 2+ Betty Bomber: MG toHit: 2+ AT: 6 FP: 5+ Bombs: to Hit: 3+ AT: 7 FP: 2+ 8 JAPANESE ARSENAL 1942 / 1943 JAPANESE ARSENAL GUADALCANAL AMPHIBIOUS TANK Tanks like the Japanese Ka-Mi may use this rule and may move into water.