Surabaya Inferno is RTT (or maybe RTS) games about battle of Surabaya in 27 October-20 November 1945. You can see map of Surabaya city at above.

So maybe most of you not from Indonesia and don't know what is Battle of Surabaya.  Battle of Surabaya is very popular history battle in Indonesia when about 100.000 armed militia Indonesian fighting(some of them has trained by Japanese in WW2 as native soliders and Dutch before war) against nearly 30.000 professional British soldiers(mostly from India)  from 10 November to 20 November (actully is more longer since some militia attacking British bases in night and sniping them until early December). 

ilustraton of Battle of Surabaya by M.Sochieb 

Why this battle happen? War is over right?

War is over in Europe and Pasific but not for Southeast Asia. There are two place have revolution:Indonesia and Indocina. Indonesia proclamated independence in 17 August 1945 and widely supported by many peoples. 

Japanese soldiers, who hold de facto power got attacked in several places since many Indonesia want got weapons for defending new nations especiallt Surabaya where many weaponry stored at there.

British soliders arrived in Surabaya like another big cities in Sumatra and Java to disarm Japanese soldiers after they lose in war at 25 October 1945. Many peoples got ready for fight but government of Surabaya can control the situation until 27 October when presence of British soliders threated Indonesia's independence with bring Dutch civil adminstration . Gun fight in many streets happened until 30 October when President Sukarno and his fellows come to Surabaya and met high commanders of British. Cease fire happened until Brigadier General Mallabay, who travelling in city to tell his army and Surabayan to hold the guns died in Jembatan Merah (Red Bridge) at same time.

This make new commander of British soliders, Major General Robert Mansergh , ulitimatum all Indonesian to surrender with deadline at 6 AM 10 November 1945 or they will attack from sea, land, and air. Indonesian refused and many peoples in Surabaya rise their weapons. Huge number militia come to Surabaya to join the battle and when battle begun, British soliders trapped in large inferno at Surabaya city.

Pics from video Imperial War Museum at 16 November 1945

Game System

In this game, there are 3 arcs: Consilidation, Fighting Cock, and Inferno. These arcs based on historical events happened in Surabaya until big battle happened. Each arcs have different system. For inferno, player play to hold and attack British but for consilidation, players play as one of Surabayan in attacking Japanese weaponry. Fighting Cock is gun street fight  where players must hold and attack British in street. 

In history, British won the battle after suffered several weeks but in this game, you have chance to win this battle but very unlikely happen because British very superior !