Alternate Battle for Malaysia Dec. 10th 1941
I ran this scenario back in late May / early June (Memorial Day holiday for folks in the U.S.) Motivation for the scenario: Perhaps like many of us, I found it "disappointing" that two such graceful ships as the Prince of Wales and Repulse met an unceremonious end by way of bombs & torpedoes from Japanese twin engined bombers. So, partially inspired by the recent volcanic eruptions in Hawaii -- I needed an excuse for why the Japanese planes could not find the British Task force -- I tried to put together an alternative scenario where, due to an unexpected volcanic eruption some where in the Indonesian archipelago, the British ships had a chance to go down fighting. The results of my research were interesting as I was hoping that either the Fuso and/or Yamashiro had been used in Malaysia. But no, it was the Kongo and Haruna. Battle-cruisers. Suddenly this was getting interesting; the Prince of Wales was certainly a match for either of them and ...