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2 New RS ME scenarios - Mr. Guberman - 08-17-2007 I just posted 2 new RS ME scenarios to H2H. They both share the same map file. 1.) Kuching 24 December 1941 Kuching, British Borneo: A forgotten battle, begun the day before the sorrowful Christmas of 1941 as the Japanese moved to eliminate the last of the British occupied locations on Northern Borneo. The Japanese Kawaguchi Detachment landed near Miri on the 17th and in an almost bloodless series of advances captured the British oilfields at Miri and Seria; the processing and shipping facility at Lutong and also the British Colonies of Lauban and Sandakan, introducing the British citizens, captured there, to the peculiararities of the "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere". What British forces were on the Island, amalgamated around a Punjabi Battalion and called SarForce, had concentrated at the city of Kuching in western British Borneo. On this bleak Christmas Eve, the British force attempted to get approval from Headquarters at Singapore to retreat southwest to Singkawang II Airfield, near Pontianak, in western Dutch Borneo and delaying the Japanese at Kuching while setting up a defensive perimeter at Bukit Stabar Airfield, 7 miles to the south. 2.) Bukit Stabar Airfield 25 December 1941 Bukit Stabar Airfield (7 miles south of Kuching), British Borneo: Christmas Day and the Commonwealth SarFor continues to hold out in the Kuching area in northwestern Borneo. The day before, on Christmas Eve, the Japanese Kawaguchi detachment, after some fighting, had driven the advance units of the Allied force from Kuching, south toward Bukit Stabar Airfield. The operations for today called for the Japanese troops to anihilate the remaining Allied troops and to secure the airfield. For SarForce the situation was much different: Finally having received permission from Headquarters, in Singapore, to withdraw southwest into Dutch Borneo, LtColonel C.M. Lane had intended to begin the retreat at dusk. While making preparations to withdraw at Bukit Stabar, heavy firing was heard to the north of Batu Kitang, astride the avenue of retreat, shortly after noon. An immediate withdrawal was ordered. Two companies of tired Punjabi infantry would comprise the main rearguard force while the rest of the command began evacuating the airfield in the direction of Krokong on the Dutch frontier. Enjoy. Cheers, Curt