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This is the Full Boxed version of the NEWLY RELEASED monster wargame, SINGAPORE!. It includes everything you need to play the game – maps, die cut counters, detailed orders of battle, rules and charts, all printed and ready to go!

SINGAPORE! is the first game of The Second World War Series (TSWW) from Diffraction Entertainment for the Pacific Theater of War.

SINGAPORE! is the all encompassing operational game dealing with what started as the ill fated ABDACOM Theatre, and ended as the victorious South East Asia Command. The game includes the appallingly poor Allied performance in Malaya, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies, as well as the long drag towards victory over the tenacious (some would say fanatical) Japanese forces in South East Asia.

MAPS - 23 TSWW Standard (18″ x 26″) maps – although to be honest 3 are a little smaller than that, but you get the idea, its not small…. On the map area are Burma, Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra, Thailand, Laos, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Cambodia, and Java, as well as most or part of China, India, Borneo, and Vietnam. The Celebes are effectively off map, and will appear in Operation Watchtower, whilst Timor is in the far South Eastern corner of the map area.

As is normal with large TSWW games, the map areas are designed to split into smaller segments to permit players with limited room to enjoy the Singapore! game experience without recourse to wall papering their house, or buying an aircraft hangar!

The maps are to the same standard as Mare Nostrum, Merkur, and Balkan Fury in terms of the map art, and have the plasticised finish standardised with the release of Operation Merkur.

COUNTERS - 10 counter sheets with 2800 world class counters covering the British, Chinese, American, Australian, West and East African, Indian, Japanese, Dutch, Thai, and Vichy French militaries that so bitterly contested the region during the campaigns from 1941 to 1945. In addition to the base forces the game includes a variety of what if units for all the major powers, showing what could have been deployed had more resources or political will have been shown.

ORDERS OF BATTLE - Singapore! is the only game to our knowledge available that shows the entire campaign area in one box, and as such has a variety of modules to entertain and challenge board war gamers:

As the game comes back from press we hope to add additional modules dealing with the Andaman Islands, an early Japanese invasion of India, and various naval operations during 1943-5.

Additionally we provide significant Japanese air and naval assets for what if play, which, given that the Combined Fleet spent significant periods of time in the Lingga Roads (just south of Singapore) is not that silly when you stop and consider it… and it may also be why for extended periods the British Eastern Fleet was heavily reinforced, despite not being engaged directly with its Japanese counter parts.

RULES AND CHARTS - These are in effect, the gold standard for the TSWW system, incorporating a variety of revisions, as well as modifications and additions to the logistical system to enable it to illustrate not just the tremendous difficulty of operations in the jungles of Asia, but the magnificent achievements by the USAAF and the RAF in over coming aerial resupply of two capable armies in the field. The charts clearly reflect the same processes and include significant new work on the Japanese forces.

The product listed here is absolutely brand new and in same condition as when it left the publisher. It has never been opened and the shrink-wrapping is still intact. There is absolutely no damage to the box, packaging or contents.

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