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Offline Mister Fork

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Up this week: Battle of Singapore
« on: November 16, 2012, 08:26:23 AM »
TRAPPED! Battle of Singapore
Japanese forces are now all over China and have
stepped up their engagement of Commonwealth forces.
British and Canadian troops are surrounded in the
town of Singapore but inland a battle rages over
the skies.

Allied Vox - 123
Axis Vox - 126

IJN/IJA Forces
A6M2
B5N2
D3A-1
GM41-11

Commonwealth
Hurri Mk I
Spitfire Mk 1A
Brewster (Dutch)
Boston

Killshooter is on.
Visibility is 12.0 miles
Fuel burn rate is 1.0
Ack settings are .50
Base capture: 15 troops Town down 75%
Radar (1940-small)
Sector 10560
Tower 63500
Icons Enemy Off Friendly 2.5K
Radar alts--500
« Last Edit: November 16, 2012, 08:32:32 AM by Mister Fork »
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Re: Up this week: Battle of Singapore
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2012, 09:59:13 PM »
Sounds fun :x
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Re: Up this week: Battle of Singapore
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2012, 01:09:11 AM »

Commonwealth
Hurri Mk I
Spitfire Mk 1A
Brewster (Dutch)
Boston


There were no Spits at Singapore before it fell.

The Defense of Singapore fell to the brewster that is not represented in game, Wirraways, Hudsons, Albacores and Vildebeests. Hurricanes did arrive on the 20th of Jan.

The Brewsters has such poor preformance, that the units riped out the radio masts, rear-vision mirrors & cockpit heaters, reducing the gun cowlings and gunports, and replacing the .50cal guns with 303s.

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Re: Up this week: Battle of Singapore
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2012, 10:04:37 AM »
I know - and players always comment about the setup when we run it.  And to add to your info: on 20th of Jan when the extra Hurri's arrived to suplement the existing ones - England sent Hurri Mk IIA - that wasn't metioned but it's just a point in many in this battle.

As one of the hardest setups to balance, we added the Spit otherwise it'll be a total breakfast sandwich of hurri's and brewsters.  We (the AvA admins) will often balance the planeset to make both sides fair, even when historically the odds are very lopsided as in the Battle of Singapore.  The IJA/IJN demolished the Commonwealth and Dutch forces in a matter of hours during the first part of the battle.  It was a surprising loss that resulted in the death of 10's of thousands of British, Canadian, and Commomwealth POW's.   

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« Last Edit: November 19, 2012, 10:30:26 AM by Mister Fork »
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Re: Up this week: Battle of Singapore
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2012, 11:05:46 AM »
I am in for Thursday!  Allied this week for me...
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Re: Up this week: Battle of Singapore
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2012, 12:29:00 PM »
BTW Fish - the AvA Dev group are always looking for good historians....
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