Singapore 45

PacPG: 6.10.1945 - 16.4.1946

Scenario Map:

When you move the mouse pointer over the map, unit name, strength and coordinates are displayed as a label. When you press terrain button object name is displayed (city, river, sea, ...)

Changes and corrections of map:

Scenario author:
Scenario origin:
Last revision date: 		stanny
20.6.2005
14.2.2009 		  
First release:
Revision released:
4.8.2009 ( Release 01 )
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Completely new scenario - planned return occupation of Malay Peninsula and conquest of Singapore by British Forces. The map includes a larger area and has a larger scale than the battle Singapore depicting the Japanese Malaysian campaign 1941/42, which is quite faithful in the original PacG, only the creators did not notice the "tiny" island nearby - Sumatra. Other islands in its vicinity were added.

Original map:

When you move the mouse pointer over the map object (city, river, ...), its name, coordinates, optionally flag are displayed as a label

Historic overview:

Operation codename: Mailfist
Battle which had not beed proceeded because of Japanese capitulation. Operation ROGER, ZIPPER and MAILFIST.

Article on English Wikipedia

Scenario in dates:
February 17, 1944: In Occupied Singapore - The Japanese authorities rename the island city Syonan (meaning "Light of the South").
September 26, 1943: Singapore (occupied) - Operation Jaywick, British-Australian Commando penetrates the harbor at night on folding canoes and destroys 7 merchant ships in a classic demonstration of special forces action. On the Krait, originally a Japanese fishing boat Fukoku Maru not suspicious, everyone returns to Australia.
January 11, 1944: Malaya - Japanese light cruiser Kuma is sunk near Penang by the British submarine HMS Tally-Ho. Paradoxically, the cruiser is returning from the anti-submarine warfare exercises.
June 29, 1944: Malaya - In Batu Gajah´s Japanese prison, Lim Bo Seng dies, a Chinese-born naval hero of Singapore who was arrested two months earlier by the Kampeitai military police in an attempt to create a spys network in the occupied Malaya. Among his team´s achievements was contact with British Major Freddie Chapman, who had been hiding in the jungle with Communist partisans for over a year and a half since the Japanese invasion.
July 17, 1944: Strait of Malacca - A patrolling British submarine HMS Telemachus sinks a passing Japanese submarine I-166.
December 13, 1944: Southchina Sea - Japanese heavy crusader Myoko is torpedoed by the USS Bergall (SS-320) during a voyage from Singapore to the Indochinese base in Cam Ranh Bay. The explosion blowing away her a large part of the stern and the destroyer Ushio has to tow the paralyzed vessel back to Singapore, where, however, it will not be repaired by the end of the war.
February 10, 1945: Singapore (occupied) - Following the previous destruction of merchant ship convoys, the Japanese Navy launched a critical Operation Kita aimed at transporting of strategic materials from Southeast Asia to Japan, cut off by Allied blockade, loaded on warships. From Sinapore sails a convoy of hybrid carriers Hyuga and Ise, light cruiser Oyodo and destroyers Kasumi, Asashimo and Hacushimo, with a cargo of oil products, rubber, tin, zinc, tungsten and mercury for the Japanese industry on the home islands.
April 1, 1945: South China Sea - In the Taiwan Strait, an american submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) sinks the Japanese hospital ship Awa Maru accidentally. Everyone on board will die except the captain´s personal steward Kantora Shimoda, for whom it is the third experience of the only survivor after torpedoing the vessel. Later, it turns out that the protection of the Red Cross was only misused to transport strategic material and important Japanese civilian and army personel from Singapore to Japan. Post-war surveys of the wreck did not find the expected cost of precious gold and diamonds, analyzing the secret US archive records of the Japanese War Communications found that the treasure had been transport to Thailand before the Japanese surrender.
May 16, 1945: In the Strait of Malacca - During the night (May 15-16), the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro and destroyer Kamikaze, attempting to resupply Japanese garrisons on the Nicobar Islands, are intercepted by 5 British destroyers, commanded by Captain Power, which sink the cruiser with torpedo attacks in one of the last major surface gun and torpedo actions of World War II. In 2014, the wreckage of a cruiser will be destroyed for scrap by illegal salvors.
July 2, 1945: From London - Mountbatten is ordered to launch Operation Zipper, the liberation of Malaya, in August.
July 24, 1945: In Malaya - British naval and air units begin three days of attacks on Japanese troop positions and transportation targets on the west coast.
July 25, 1945: In Malaya - British naval and air units continue attacks on Japanese positions and transportation targets on the west coast.
July 26, 1945: In the Bay of Bengal - The first Japanese Kamikaze attack on the British East Indies Fleet close misses the escort carrier HMS Ameer and sinks the minesweeper HMS Vestal off the Thai coast of Malay Peninsula. British naval and air units end attacks on Japanese positions and transportation targets on the west coast of Malaya.
July 31, 1945: In Singapore - British submarines penetrate port and by frogmen using limpet mines sink the Japanese heavy cruiser Takao.
July 31, 1945: French Indochina - in the Mekong Delta, the British mini-submarine XE-4 and its five-man crew cuts the undersea communications cables connecting Singapore to Saigon, and Saigon to Hong Kong. This forces the Japanese to communicate via radio, which is easier for the Allies to intercept.
August 4, 1945: In Singapore - Japanese guards execute seven captured American airmen.
August 23, 1945: In Ceylon - A British naval squadron sets sail to occupy Singapore.
September 12, 1945: Singapore - the remaining 680,000 Japanese soldiers in Southeast Asia are surrender to General Lord Louis Mountbatten on behalf Field Marshall Terauchi by General Seishiro Itagaki.
November 30, 1945: French Indochina - In Saigon, Field Marshal Count Hisaichi Terauchi, a former Japanese commander in Southeast Asia, was hospitalized in May 1945 after a stroke in a local hospital. Terauchi´s wakizashi short sword, a family heirloom dating back to 1413, is still an inventory of the Windsor Castle.
June 9, 1946: Thailand (Siam) - Pchumipchon Adunjadet of the Chakri Dynasty becomes King of Thailand. Under the name of Rama IX. he will rule long until his death in 2016. With a reign of 70 years, he will become the second longest reigning monarch in history, after Louis XIV. (72 years, 1643-1715). However, in case of avoding the victory of communism in Eastern Europe, Michal I. Romanian would playfully surpass both. At the same time as Rama ascended the throne in Siam, Michal is already 10 years in service. Unfortunately, he has to sign an abdication with a pistol aiming at his head and go into exile, but he will eventually die after Rama as the last former commander in chief of one of the armies fighting in World War II.
June 12, 1946: Malaya - at Renggam, Johor Bahru, prisoner of war Japanese Field Marshall Count Hisaichi Terauchi sufferes from another stroke and dies. He will be buried at the Japanese cemetery in Singapore.

Literature sources:
Hrbek, Ivan: Na moøích a oceánech (On the seas and oceans),   Panorama, 1989, Praha

Game play matters:

Campaign play:
Final scenario of British campaign.

Scenario data:

Map size: 53 x 52 hexes
33 turns, 6 days per turn
Version: PacAGPG 2, Starting side: Allies, Campaign: British campaign, Order in campaign: 9.
Allied states:    United Kingdom, Australia & New Zealand, India, Free France
Axis states:    Japan
Neutral states:    -
Allies:    attack
Axis:    defend
Experience of Allied purchased units:   
Experience of Axis purchased units:   
Climate region:    Monsoon
Weather character in region:    Rain periods alternate with dry period. Rain period between June and September.
Game time costingness of scenario:    53.28 %
(product of units and turns numbers divided by difference between the most long and the most short scenario)
Number of Allied units:
51 units, from them are 22 core units and 29 auxiliary units
12 air units, 9 naval units and 30 ground units
2 of units are loaded to air transport and 9 to naval transport
 Transports Air/Naval:
Allies - Axis

4/10 - 1/1
Number of Axis units:
90 units
10 air units, 9 naval units and 71 ground units
0 of units are loaded to air transport and 0 to naval transport
Initial prestige + every turn donation:
Allies / Axis

1000 + 0 / 690 + 95
Max number of Allied units:
60 units, from them are 22 core units and 38 auxiliary units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 9 unit
   (0 core + 9 auxiliary)
Max number of Axis units:
95 units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 5 unit
Transport units:
Allies - air:    C-47 Dakota
Axis - air:    Ki-54 Hickory
Allies - naval:    AF Transport
Axis - naval:    Transport

Victory conditions:

Major victory:      All strategic objectives must be token up to 20. turn
Minor victory:      All strategic objectives must be token up to last turn
Prestige donation for Major victory:      500
Prestige donation for Minor victory:      200

Battle participated units:

   Complete list of all units on map including coordinates, strenght, experience etc.

 List of types participated units
Allied units:

Commandos (United Kingdom)
Para 43 (United Kingdom)
HW Infantry 43 (United Kingdom)
GB Infantry 43 (United Kingdom)
Bridge Engineers (United Kingdom)
Gurkhas (United Kingdom)
GB Sherman Firefly (United Kingdom)
Cromwell MkVII (United Kingdom)
GB Comet (United Kingdom)
Tetrarch MkVII (United Kingdom)
Daimler Scout Car (United Kingdom)
GB Achilles (United Kingdom)
GB M7 Priest (United Kingdom)
GB 5.5´´ Gun (United Kingdom)
GB 6´´ Gun (United Kingdom)
40mm Boffors (United Kingdom)
Spitfire MkXVIII (United Kingdom)
Gloster Meteor (United Kingdom)
Fairey Firefly (United Kingdom)
Corsair MkIV (United Kingdom)
Mosqito MkVI (United Kingdom)
Vengeance MkI (United Kingdom)
Beaufighter MkI (United Kingdom)
Avro Lincoln (United Kingdom)
Submarine (United Kingdom)
Destroyer (United Kingdom)
Heavy Cruiser (United Kingdom)
Battleship (United Kingdom)
Heavy Aircraft Carrier (United Kingdom)
GB 3 Ton Lorry (United Kingdom)
Brencarrier (United Kingdom)
C-47 Dakota (United Kingdom)
AF Transport (United Kingdom)
ANZAC HW 44 (Australia & New Zealand)
ANZAC 1943 (Australia & New Zealand)
AC III Sentinel (Australia & New Zealand)
25 Pdr Gun (Australia & New Zealand)
20mm SPAA (Australia & New Zealand)
CA-15 Kangaroo (Australia & New Zealand)
Destroyer (Australia & New Zealand)
Light Cruiser (Australia & New Zealand)
GB 3 Ton Lorry (Australia & New Zealand)
Brencarrier (Australia & New Zealand)
AF Transport (Australia & New Zealand)
Indian Infantry (India)
GB 3 Ton Lorry (India)
Battleship (Free France)
 Axis units:

Kyoka Hohei 1943 (Infantry HW 1943) (Japan)
Hohei 1943 (Infantry 1943) (Japan)
Jitensha Butai (Bicycle Infantry) (Japan)
Konoe Shidan (Imperial Guard) (Japan)
Senpaku Kohei (Engineers - SNLF) (Japan)
Type 98 Ke-Ni (Japan)
Type 1 Chi-He (Japan)
Shinhoto Chi-Ha (Japan)
Type 97 Chi-Ha (Japan)
Type 95 Ha-Go (Japan)
Type 93 Sumida (Japan)
Type 92 6-Wheeled Armored Car (Japan)
Type 90 75mm ATG (Japan)
Type 1 Ho-Ni 3 (Japan)
Type 1 Ho-Ni 1 (Japan)
Type 1 47mm (Japan)
Type 4 Ho-Ro (Japan)
Type 96 150mm (Japan)
Type 1 Ho-Ni 2 (Japan)
Type 98 Ko-Hi (Japan)
Type 96 AA Gun Prime Mover (Japan)
Type 99 88mm (Japan)
Type 88 75mm (Japan)
12´´ Coastal Battery (Japan)
10´´ Coastal Battery (Japan)
5´´ Coastal Battery (Japan)
Ki-84 Frank (Hayate) (Japan)
Ki-45 Nick (Toryu) (Japan)
Ki-44 Tojo (Shoki) (Japan)
P1Y Frances (Ginga) (Japan)
G4M Betty (Rikko) (Japan)
Ki-21 Sally (Japan)
Submarine (Japan)
Torpedo Boat (Japan)
Destroyer (Japan)
Heavy Cruiser (Japan)
Type 1 Ho-Ha (Japan)
Isuzu Type 94 6-Wheeled Truck (Japan)

The same time period scenarios:

Coronet (W) (PacAGPG 1), Coronet (PacAGPG 1), Singapore 45 (PacAGPG 2), Olympic (PacPG 1), Coronet (PacPG 1), Coronet (W) (PacPG 1), Coronet (US, R) (PacPG 1)

Map names list:

Air Asahan River
Alur Setar
Alur Setar Airfield
Andaman Sea
Danau Toba
George Town
Gulf of Siam
Indian Ocean
Ipoh
Ipoh Airfield
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Tactical map (large & detail):

Basic map
Map with unloaded transports and order numbers of units

Battlefield map: