orabera wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:19 pm
A few more nit picky recommended OB changes:
Cannot say that there was no Civilian ship Regulus active in the Pacific, but the Regulus present at Wake on 7 Dec 41 was USS Regulas (AK-14). Currently starts at San Diego.
USS Sepulga (AO-20) missing, was a Patoka-class oiler enroute from LA to Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 41.
USS Boreas (AF-8) missing, was in San Francisco on 7 Dec 41. Her sister ships of the Arctic-class (Arctic, Yukon) appear in games as Regulus-class AG. The three ships had been purchased in 1921 and converted to stores ships with one entire hold setup to carry a few hundred tons of frozen cargo.
USS Gills (AVD-12) missing, a Clemson-class APD stationed at Kodiak Island and at Yakutat harbor on 7 Dec 41.
USS Kaula (AG-33) missing, en route to Palmyra from Pearl Harbor with supplies on 7 Dec 41.
HMS Rover (N62) missing, a Rainbow-class submarine at Singapore on 7 Dec 41. Engines had been badly damaged during the Battle of Crete and sent to Singapore for repair. Only Rainbow-class submarine to survive the war, she was towed to Bombay to have her repairs completed. Repairs dragged out until Dec 44 do to replacement machinery to be shipped from the UK. Operated out of Trincomalee for anti-submarine training. Could just leave out completely, or hypothetically higher priority being assigned and being repaired earlier, commander had originally estimated repairs should only take 90 days in Singapore once docked (Guessing the machinery required for repairs existed in Singapore).
2nd Filipino Infantry Battalion missing, arrives San Francisco for deployment Jun 44. There were originally two Filipino Infantry Regiments raised. The 2nd was broken up and personnel used for various duties associated with the planned invasion of the Philippines. (Among these duties were to bring the 1st Filipino Inf Rgt up to 125% strength. I've seen references to this before but cannot find an official source, apparently at some point in the war all US combat units deploying overseas were brought up to 125% strength to absorb losses.)
The British had a prewar agreement on wartime cooperation with the Dutch ML-KNIL. This included such things as pre-positioning a few hundred tons of British aerial bombs on Dutch air bases and four Dutch air units operating out of Singapore once a war started with Japan (only three were deployed). Since it is not possible to move ML-KNIL units to Singapore, recommend they appear in Singapore:
• 8 Dec 41
◦ 2-VI.G.V Fighter Sqdn – 12 x B-339D
• 9 Dec 41
◦ 1-VI.GIII Bomber Sqdn – 9 x 139WH-3
◦ 3-VI.GIII Bomber Sqdn – 9 x 139WH-3
Malaya Independent Company was raised in early 1941 and on 7 Dec 41 was located at George Town. Another had been raised in Burma but disbanded before the war started.
3 Indian Cavalry Regiment - Alor Star
Singapore/Malaysia Field Artillery - searched every source I could find to create a more accurate count of artillery guns in the Malaysia Command than appears in game:
• 22 Indian Mountain Gun Regiment - Scattered among the two Indian Divisions, should be removed as an independent unit
• 22 Australian Infantry Brigade - 8 x 4'5" How, 16 x 18pdr Gun (upgrades to 24 x 24pdr guns mid-Jan 42)
• 27 Australian Infantry Brigade - 24 x 24pdr Gun
• 122 Field Regiment - 24 x 24pdr Gun, part of 12 Indian Brigade and located at Port Dickson
9 Indian Infantry Division
• 8 Indian Infantry Brigade - 16 x 4.5" How, 4 x 3.7" Mtn Gun, 5 Field Regiment and 21 Indian Mountain Gun Battery (could not find very good information on the 5 Field Rgt, it did have three batteries and should have 24 guns of some sort, only source I could find said 16)
• 22 Indian Infantry Brigade - 24 x 24pdr gun, 88 Field Regiment
11 Indian Infantry Division
• 6 Indian Infantry Brigade - 12 x 3.7" Mtn Gun, 22 Indian Mountain Gun Regiment (minus 21 Ind Mtn Gun Btry)
• 15 Indian Infantry Brigade - 24 x 24pdr Gun, 137 (2 West Lancashire) Field Regiment
• 28 Ghurka Infantry Brigade - 16 x 4.5" How, 156 (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment (one battery left in the UK)
Current OB shows two Indian State Forces bn's in Malaya. Should be with updated locations:
• 1 Bahawalpur Battalion - Alor Star
• 1 Hyderabad Battalion - Khota Bharu
• 1 Mysore Battalion - Khota Bharu
• Jind Infantry Company - Singapore
• Kalpurthala Infantry Company - Singapore
Jahore military forces - With the complete defeat of British forces in Malaya and the retreat to Singapore, they allowed the Sultan of Jahore to disband his military forces to reduce casualties in a futile defense of Jahore.
• JMF Infantry Battalion (pre-war regular troops trained by British officers, should have an organization similar to regular Indian Infantry Battalions, it was offered by the Sultan for use in the defense of Singapore, but since there were already 14 million British/Indian/Australian troops waiting to be captured by the Japanese there was no room) - Jahore Bahru
• JVF Infantry Battalion - Jahore Bahru
• JVE (Engineer) Company, consisted of European planters and did not actually fall under the Sultan of Jahore, attached to and fought with the Australians through the fall of Singapore - Jahore Bahru
Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces - Used in line-of-communications work
• 1 FMSVF (Perak) Battalion - Taiping
• 2 FMSVF (Selangor) Battalion - Kuala Lumpur
• 3 FMSVF (Negri Sembilan) Battalion - Kuala Lumpur
• 4 FMSVF (Pahang) Battalion - Kuantan
• 1 FMSVF Field Regiment, one battery - 4 x 3'7" Mtn Gun - Probably Kuala Lumpur
• FMSVF Armoured Car Company (Marman Harringtons and Lanchesters) reorganized as a two squadron Regiment on 18 Dec 41 with the addition of the KVF Volunteer Armored Car - Probably Kuala Lumpur
UFMSVF: Unfederated Malaya States Volunteer Forces
Kedah Volunteer Forces
• KVF Infantry Battalion (understrength) - Taiping
• KVF Armored Car (Marman Harringtons) - Taiping
Niggling note on British Forces - The British don't use ordinal numbers in unit designations. The British 5th Field Regiment is properly written 5 Field Regiment. This may vary in the personal writings of some British officers. Also this was before the NATO standard of using Roman numerals for Corps numbering. During WWII British XXX Corps was written 30 Corps.
Apologies, but in a previous life I was an Army SigInt Weenie Analyst and can get picky about OB. Any mistakes here are of course not my fault.
I googled eg. the port Swettenham (now named different) and even today it is a major container terminal - interesting what one learns from the game
I guess the transport ops losses are not changed and kind of "WAD"
Or FOW? Well I will attack the Soviets in this game for sure 
....GP
