Pearl of the Orient

DATE: 11/12/2025

TIME (GMT): 19:00

ERA: Cold War

MAP(S): Tanoa

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): W.Jarvis

SLOTS: 81 / 82

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RATING: (55)

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During negotiations for the return of Hong Kong to Chinese hands, Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping tells British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that China could take Hong Kong by force "within an afternoon". Viewing this as a challenge and buoyed by the recent success of the Falklands War, Mrs Thatcher confidently decides to take on the might of the People's Liberation Army, and see how far she can run the gauntlet with the Chinese Premier's words.

With war on the horizon, Thatcher gives the go ahead to reinforce British forces in Hong Kong, China responds by massing troops on the border in order to force Thatcher to reconsider her position. However the Iron Lady refuses to give in and is able to at least guarantee the aid of Canadian and ANZAC forces in the event hostilities break out. 

On the 19th of April in 1984, China declares war one minute after midnight after recalling its ambassador. The People's Liberation Army invaded the area with hundreds of tanks and thousands of vehicles against heavily outnumbered but far more modern British garrison troops.

The advance however grinds to a halt, where the British have consolidated their positions and use the area's high mountains and valleys as well as several towns and villages to funnel the Chinese forces into kill zones where they can be hammered from all sides, the battle turns into a massacre as Chinese forces send regiment after regiment of lightly armed and armoured troops and are driven back with heavy casualties. 

09:00 Hours, Lantau Island, British Hong Kong, 25th April, 1984 - With the main Chinese thrust towards Hong Kong blunted at Tsuen Wan, the PLANMC 2nd Marine Regiment attempt to outflank the British by attacking Lantau Island to the West held by troops of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment.