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ZombieLenin posted:Jarha Bahru It's Johor (or Johore, but not really). I wouldn't mention this if I haven't spent there the other week.
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goatface posted:What are you supposed to ignore while you put 100,000 men attacking Singapore? It's silly. Ideally you want to get to it early and not let it reinforce, more or less as in real life. And the fortress and fortress guns are sort of facing the harbour (which is where the actual city is) but they could still fire at invaders. wikipedia posted:It is a commonly repeated misconception that Singapore's famous large-calibre coastal guns were ineffective against the Japanese because they were designed to face south to defend the harbour against naval attack and could not be turned round to face north. In fact, most of the guns could be turned, and were indeed fired at the invaders. However, the guns—which included one battery of three 15 in (380 mm) weapons and one with two 15 in (380 mm) guns—were supplied mostly with armour-piercing (AP) shells and few high explosive (HE) shells. AP shells were designed to penetrate the hulls of heavily armoured warships and were mostly ineffective against infantry targets.[41][42] Military analysts later estimated that if the guns had been well supplied with HE shells the Japanese attackers would have suffered heavy casualties, but the invasion would not have been prevented by this means alone. Also IRL it's been defended by ~80000 men, although a fair amount of them were mostly untrained colonial troops and with horrible leadership. It's not inconceivable they could've held out for longer. And of course, it does happen to be a hilly jungle island. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:RIP Private Speech Dammit I take a break from reading this thread and this is what happens. That's what I get for picking a carrier runt I guess.
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