Xalxyn Gol*
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Date: May, 1939*                     
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Battle Type: Soviet Assault vs Japan Defend*
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Design: Ed Mortimer*
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Updated for WinSPww2*
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Battle Description: In May of 1939 a dispute broke out over the boundary between the Soviet satellite Mongolia and the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo (Manchuria). The area in contention, a sandy, desert-like steppe region dotted with dunes, gullies, hills and even a few quicksands.  The land lay between Xalxyn Gol (aka Halha River) and the hills of Nomonhan to its East. Several very intense, but inconclusive skirmishes were fought between Soviets and Outer Mongolians on one side, and Japanese and Inner Mongolians on the other.  The age-old tribal conflict between the Tskirik and the Bargut were brought into the 20th century, and became another of the battlegrounds of World War II.  Soon it would include many thousands of soldiers on each side, but in May of 1939 the count was still in the few hundreds on each side.*
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This scenario is an amalgamation of several incidents that happened in May of 1939 between the two sides.  Typically, each skirmish was severely one-sided, and they traded victories and defeats until by the end of May they were back where they had started.  This scenario blends traits from the different engagements into an intense, but playable assault/defend engagement. *
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