Onime No Kyo
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ORIGINAL: Alikchi ...I'm doing the research is for work on an "alternate history" scenario where Malaya and Singapore really are properly defended. It should be interesting. That would take some doing. The idea is that Italy is knocked out of the war in 1940-41, which opens up the Med and frees up fleet assets and troops from North Africa. Plus, Percival gets malaria and is replaced by Slim, who trains and trains and trains.. Re: Wirraways - You can almost always find somewhere to use them. I like to put them on naval attack at low altitude, to strafe barges, APs, whatever. You can throw them into CAP if you want, too. It'll at least slow the Japanese down sometimes. I was thinking about something of this sort a while ago and posted a thread in which, IIRC, Alikchi took part. It all started with a conversation with one of my profs who introduced me to the idea of what the Brits in the 30s had planned to have in Malaya by 42. After tinkering a bit, I discovered that I just dont have the wherewithal or the patience to do something like that (tacit statement of utter respect for Tanker there) and just forgot about it. I'm glad Alikchi is continuing the idea. I would be very interested in seeing a scenario like that.
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