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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Kamikaze Tank Destruction Teams

The Approach to Mutanchiang scenario called for the use of special suicide teams of anti-tank troops by the Japanese. 

Here are the rules I drafted for the purpose.

Any company that has an attached Kamikaze Tank Destruction Team may, once per game, launch a "human bullet" (nikuhaku kōgeki) attack subject to a successful Tac roll.

The attack must be declared at the start of any Fire Phase during which the parent company is able to fire. The range of the attack is the movement distance of an infantry element in Bold Attack Mode in the appropriate terrain, measured from any element of the parent company. Note that the parent company can be in any Mode that allows firing (PD, D, DT, DA or BA).

It's not necessary to have figures representing the team but feel free to make some! The path from the parent unit to the target platoon should be indicated and the enemy may fire at them, treating them as a soft target, with any unit able to detect them and fire in the current Fire Phase.

The team ignores Neutralised combat results. If they are not destroyed, they attack the targeted unit counting as Assault Engineers (4/1).

After the attack the team is removed from play without any negative impact on the morale of the parent company. However, if the team is destroyed by enemy fire during the attack, a Company Morale Test is triggered (although the team does not count towards percentage losses).


Note that the TacWWII rules already allow for infantry units making attacks against hard targets with "grenades and heroism". No specific range is given in the rules for these attacks. My proposal is that they may be made if the attackers ended the Movement Phase in contact with the target or if the target passed within 1cm of the attacking unit during the Movement Phase. I'd suggest that these attacks may be made in addition to "human bullet" attacks.

2 comments:

  1. Great stuff they look as though they will work nicely. Ideal modelling opportunity for a nice little base 👍

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