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ORIGINAL: Gridley380 Just my $0.02, but in Malaya you've got several large units (or fragments that can be combined into large units), and some small ones. The small ones aren't going to help much in the corps-scale battle at Singapore, so I send them out to delay that action and give the big units time to form up and dig in as much as possible. Any engineers and AA go into the city, of course. In the end unless you go full "Sir Robin" and pull out as much as you have shipping for (which is highly gamey in this particular case IMO; the Brits weren't going to give up on Singapore without a fight), all the LCUs in Malaya are going to be lost. It is just a question of taking as many IJA devices with them as possible. In addition to managing your troops, the key to the land war is supply. Singapore does not have much unless you can rush some in before it gets cut-off by the Japanese air force. So cramming troops into Singers has to be balanced against supply usage. If you are playing using the map with stacking limits, putting too many troops in the hex increases supply use. Check the stacking limit for Singers in your game. That is one of the reasons that players put a large blocking force at Johore Bharu -to delay the Japanese while spreading out the stacking limit problem. Once the JB troops are defeated and retreat to Singapore they will have lost a lot of their squads so they won't impact supply and stacking so much. Cold-blooded, but that is what commanders in a siege have to do.
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