Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Drambuie

Hi all,

Let me explain ... playing a slightly tweaked full campaign having boosted the AI allies with some extra stock of planes/squads/ships and some extra supplies etc and am at end feb as the Japanese. About to take Bataan, queing up to jump in and attack Singapore.

Now I may have been a little slow but I essentially progressed down the Malay Peninsula, taking bases etc. I found very little opposition - what appears to have hapened is the Ai - presumably boosted by changes to the way it works? - has pulled almost everything back to Singapore without making any serious stand anywhere.

Situation i now have is - and I loaded up the allies to check as I was curious - Singapore with level 5 forts, 700+guns, about 70000 men and 130000 supplies - more or less every unit that was in Malaya. Essentially that appears to me - having had enough trouble with Bataan - to be basically untakeable - I have around 120,000 Japanese lined up. What can I do about this? Anything? There is the additional - which i again didn't realise until reading on the forum - problem that any move into Singapore - even if you already have a force there -auto shock attacks for some bizarre reason.

Would really hate for my game to be stuffed because of this having invested a good month or two of solid play

Advice from you worthy fellows??

Thanks

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Blockade Singapore and bomb, bomb, bomb and then bomb it again - sooner or later the Allied forces will run out of supplies.

Edit: Oops, too slow...

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. Secondly you can only move 1/3rd of the total enemy AV into Singapore since you are crossing a river, anymore then 1/3rd you have to shock attack.

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ORIGINAL: erstad

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. Secondly you can only move 1/3rd of the total enemy AV into Singapore since you are crossing a river, anymore then 1/3rd you have to shock attack.

Um, isn't this backwards? You will shock attack while crossing the river unless you already have some fraction of the enemy AV in the hex from prior turns. (Might be one-third, don't recall off hand.)

Regarding the OP's question: There are some options if you want to just cheat your way past Singapore and continue the game. You can freely switch into head-to-head mode so you can run a turn where you reset all the Allied prep destinations and put all the Singapore defenders into strat mode (If you're not already in the hex, if you are I think the best you can do is move mode). If the goal is a realistic Singapore reduction this won't help, but it will speed things up if you just want to get to other parts of the campaign.

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ORIGINAL: Misconduct
Secondly you can only move 1/3rd of the total enemy AV into Singapore since you are crossing a river, anymore then 1/3rd you have to shock attack.

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ORIGINAL: Djordje

Make sure not to move armor units as they move faster, and are useless in Singapore anyway. Leave them behind, you don't really need them there and they can even get destroyed in combat since they are too small and fighting in bad terrain for tanks.

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ORIGINAL: briny_norman

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ORIGINAL: Djordje

Make sure not to move armor units as they move faster, and are useless in Singapore anyway. Leave them behind, you don't really need them there and they can even get destroyed in combat since they are too small and fighting in bad terrain for tanks.

I was under the impression that due to the rather rudimentary land combat model, armor units do not perform differently in combat compared to infantry. They do not receive special terrain bonuses/penalties. Only diffence between armor and infantry is the movement rates.

Isn't this the case?

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ORIGINAL: briny_norman

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ORIGINAL: Djordje

Make sure not to move armor units as they move faster, and are useless in Singapore anyway. Leave them behind, you don't really need them there and they can even get destroyed in combat since they are too small and fighting in bad terrain for tanks.

I was under the impression that due to the rather rudimentary land combat model, armor units do not perform differently in combat compared to infantry. They do not receive special terrain bonuses/penalties. Only diffence between armor and infantry is the movement rates.

Isn't this the case?