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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 5 [& e& B% F6 O& ^* e
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. + i9 k# b4 o! L+ j
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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( ^9 H5 P9 {* P9 Y/ y. t: b Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
$ o; z/ S; _) w; b% ]; | Z I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
$ {( u7 K" z% x My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
9 y' J1 B) D/ ?& x1 ] attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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( E8 l9 Y2 H, q The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and
1 r7 F1 |% N: W0 N1 `7 x see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 0 K, i' _0 K- h* Z) p+ a7 M
than close to the Home Islands. * J6 S# K; G- ?) C
4 g r8 ?. O8 \ Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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7 E& F2 H; F. n Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
( U0 c: s4 ?' T9 { heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and : c5 \8 F. f4 w$ `3 Y, r4 w" m3 y
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) + i. \6 ^2 u7 }& S5 m
# t5 [+ _) T% |3 K& L# t# K Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well ) w, ]; O3 A: W2 Z; V
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 5 U; s8 L+ M f; W, Y9 z/ X4 W
+ |+ J9 \, H0 V U, Z% z, e I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the * X2 f. u# F; q- R
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. # P$ u0 y; q: X) B9 B+ r# l
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The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this $ \% Q! G5 K- {* ` i
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
, R X1 S p# A; _+ ] in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |