Because the finns made an EVIL deal with the greek airforce
(the truth is that a stick with two cross is what i draw when i have to make many missiles)
Because the finns made an EVIL deal with the greek airforce
(the truth is that a stick with two cross is what i draw when i have to make many missiles)
I'm planning to write a fanfic about the events chronicled in this thread.
It will be presented in the form of excerpts from a historical biography entitled It Was Already On Fire When I Got Here: Sir Lord Admiral of the High Seas 'Custer' Poaw and the Third World War.
Remember that with torps, the game's acceptable launch range is ridiculously conservative: press ctrl+F1 to do a bearing only launch in the direction you think the target will be and steer the fish manually from there. But if you're in a diesel-electric, you really have to pick your battles well.
The credits will show Poaws grave in the far future the grave is a statue . It shows him standing on a pile of skulls with various national flags draped over them. A group of diplomats are kneeling at the base of the pile weeping. Poaw simply looks on towards the horizon with a look of quiet contentment of a job well done.
I actually couldn't find this thread because some dick tagged it.
Anyway, I'm building a scenario and while most of it is old hat (researching orbats, airfield locations and loadouts, extrapolating task group and air wing composition, etc etc), I've hit a snag...
I have no idea what to name a force consisting of the UK and France. I don't want to go with "European Union" because I doubt I can contrive a reason for most the EU to give a shit about anything that China does in the Pacific. I have the broad strokes of the plot worked out, but no name for one of the sides.
The Entente wins for now, because using some combination of the French and British prefixes+Alliance sounds less impressive and I don't want to argue with a stampede of people insisting in incomprehensible English that their nation go first, or the French (Anglo-Franco Alliance/Franco-Anglo Alliance).
I have no idea what to name a force consisting of the UK and France. I don't want to go with "European Union" because I doubt I can contrive a reason for most the EU to give a shit about anything that China does in the Pacific. I have the broad strokes of the plot worked out, but no name for one of the sides.
Ok now I need someone who knows something about the Malaysian/Indonesian/Filipino Navy.
Also Singapore. <---OPSEC
Really I just need someone to tell me how Singapore deploys their ships, and @SeaDart implied he couldn't or shouldn't so I'm just going to go around him.
Specifically, how does your nation (both the official government line and the popular opinion) feel about the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, with regards to the effect on your relations with your neighbors?
EDIT: Also LOL at one of your airbases being named "Butterworth".
Really I just need someone to tell me how Singapore deploys their ships, and @SeaDart implied he couldn't or shouldn't so I'm just going to go around him.
This might be hard. @ckk185 wasn't able to tell me how many crewmembers are on a Singaporean patrol ship either due to OPSEC. (Research tells me it's somewhere between 30-40.)
This might be hard. @ckk185 wasn't able to tell me how many crewmembers are on a Singaporean patrol ship either due to OPSEC. (Research tells me it's somewhere between 30-40.)
Specifically, how does your nation (both the official government line and the popular opinion) feel about the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, with regards to the effect on your relations with your neighbors?
AFAIK besides the Spratlys there isn't really much tension between Malaysia and Indonesia/other countries, at least as far as West Malaysia goes, though there is this:
The red line demarcates the simplified maritime border between Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia per international agreement. Box 'A' represents Malaysian territorial waters, and box 'B' represents Indonesian territorial waters. There's no sovereignty arguments with this.
Then you come to the mouth of the Singapore Straits opening into the South China Sea, which is a big '???????'. I cannot give much details but Horsburgh Lighthouse on Pedra Branca, and its attendant navigational features, are key to controlling access to the South China Sea. In like 2008 Pedra Branca was affirmed by the ICJ to belong to Singapore, while the Middle Rocks, which is a 80-100m long rocky outcrop consisting of the larger Eastern outcrop and smaller Western outcrop divided by water was awarded to Malaysia. The ownership of the third feature, Southern Ledge, which is only visible during low tide, is still up in the air. Indonesia has stayed out of this issue but nominally shows support for Malaysian claims.
As you know ownership of these kind of small islands give countries the ability to claim territorial waters in a 5-mile radius around it, with a larger EEZ. Therein lies the conflict.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency is constructing a coast guard station and radar facility on Middle Rocks to the tune of several million dollars with completion estimated in 2018(Trust me, you don't want to live there, it's almost as bad as BRP Sierra Madre). Their idea is to use this station to intercept smuggling and human trafficking sampans that regularly cross from Bintan to Malaysia at high speed across the mouth of the Singapore Straits. This has been a sticking point in Indonesian-Malaysian relations, since Indonesia doesn't want to do much about it (GUSKAMLABAR are in the smugglers' pockets).