"British Infantry for Malaya" Topic
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| SoS Wargaming | 05 Feb 2020 12:53 a.m. PST |
I recently finished off some British infantry for Malaya, these will be used in IABSM or Chain of Command, there's more pictures on my blog: link
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 deadhead  | 05 Feb 2020 10:46 a.m. PST |
Poor devils. I gather a lot of "finishing them off" went on. Rotten leadership, hopeless strategy and tactics, almost no support and little chance of escape. Genuinely curious how they can fare in a game, but I guess, at small unit level, they are indeed a match for the IJF on a good day. |
 Legion 4  | 06 Feb 2020 3:54 p.m. PST |
Great models & terrain ! But as deadhead said, they were in bad place, at the wrong time … |
| SoS Wargaming | 07 Feb 2020 12:41 a.m. PST |
Thanks chaps. TBF, they didn't have a great deal of support due to the war in the west and SEAC was starved of reinforcements and equipment because of that. |
| Martin Rapier | 07 Feb 2020 10:23 a.m. PST |
My grandfathers regiment (Heavy AA) was shipped out and employed as improvised coastal artillery on Java. The didn't work out too well. |
| Legion 4 | 07 Feb 2020 4:01 p.m. PST |
Yes generally much of what the UK tried there didn't amount to much success. Which was pretty much the norm for the Allies at the beginning of the War in the PTO. E.g. the Bataan Death March … |
| deadhead | 08 Feb 2020 9:26 a.m. PST |
I dunno. The Defence of the Philippines started out as a shameful disaster, gross incompetence and guard down of course. The retreat TO the Bataan Peninsula and the duration of the US/Philippine forces holding out then, was in marked contrast to Singapore and Malaya. Starving, diseased, out of supplies and no hope of reinforcement…..I wonder how long contemporary (late 1941 early 42) Commonwealth forces would have held out? The Death March was in the opposite direction after capture and only one nation can be blamed for that. |
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takes on quite a substantial project.
