Slitherine

The considered it unanimous that further resistance was useless and all the men indicated they would continue to fight if so ordered but this might mean annihilation. The decision to surrender was made at 9am 23 February with arrangements made for the wounded. At 10am a wave of Japanese bombers appeared hitting both the Australians and Japanese convoys killing and causing casualties against both adversaries and destroying four tanks. The Japanese aircraft again came over at 10.10am and done similar but when a third wave approached overhead the Japanese soldiers had placed many rising sun flags visibly around the area negating further aerial bombing attacks.

junk2drive wrote:I'm just about finished with the first battle. Since there were so few paradrop actions I decided to put them all in a campaign. I used the British desert rats with Tim's Chevy to represent the home made armoured trucks that the Dutch used, plus some SAS jeeps. Side marker and victory flags are Dutch.

The first is the capture of Langoan airfield on Celebes. Your core force is SNLF infantry that has already completed its landing and has advanced to the airfield to assist the paras. They will carry over to the second battle so you need to be careful with them. You also have some type 95 light tanks. The paras will drop on the runway and suffer many casualties. They do not carry over and are expendable.