crsutton
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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball Having played Japanese a few times, Singapore is vitally important. As such, as Allies I defend it with everything I have, including the Aussie Brigades. I would absolutely leave them, and as someone else said, get all other good combat units down to Singapore ASAP. Leave enough troops behind to stop para drops and make the Japanese walk, but that's it. (as well as a strong force at Mersing to hold the door open for a week or two). Get in additional supplies. As crsutton points out, you can also rebuild them. Unless the Australian Army is in heavy combat in 1942, you should have enough infantry to re-build the 8th Australian Division, in addition to upgrading and rounding out all the Aussie militia units. But can't stress enough the importance of Singapore. As Japan, you should be committing 4 divisions at a minimum, and 5 to make sure. Better safe than sorry. Conversely, I feel Luzon is a waste of time in early 1942. Unlike Singapore, Luzon can easily be left behind to rot and taken later. You need to land on Luzon and drive the Allies back into Manila/Clark, but after that, just leave enough troops to bottle-up the Americans, and go elsewhere. Once you stop expanding the perimeter, you have plenty of ground troops to reduce Luzon, and by then they'll be out of supplies and easy pickings. Well it is not so much the squads as there are a lot of small Australian units that can eventually be disbanded but it is devices. The average Indian division and Australian division goes through many expansions during the war and even with moderate combat and losses you will never have enough devices to meet the needs of both Armies. I am well into 1945 and just upgraded my last Indian division from the obsolete 18 pounders to the 25. I am majorly short of 3 inch mortars, 40 mm bofors guns, bren piat units, six pounder AT guns. I have too many Australian divisions with too few devices. Not to mention that the British divisions and Canadian and New Zealand brigades all used pretty much the same devices. Many players have not gone this deep into a campaign so are not aware of the pitfalls. Be careful and don't waste PP and resources rebuilding divisions that you will never be able to fully equip. Rebuild them only when you are sure you will have the devices. That means you need to pay attention to upcoming upgrades and expansions to your existing units. Devices matter and a big division with a shortage of devices can actually be quite weak. I think I have actually only rebuilt one Indian division from my total early war losses. Many others were partially rebuilt but I ended up disbanding the units to use the squads and devices elsewhere. In 1945, I am not short of divisions. If I had to do it all over again, I doubt that I would have rebuilt any of the lost infantry divisions. It was too taxing on my device pools. Now base forces and engineers are another story. Rebuild every one of them. And rebuild any American unit.
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