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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 0 V$ e0 q3 H; y/ o
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 8 `0 l0 A6 s! A7 i% H! `6 [) U
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
: G7 q) ?- d1 h/ d2 ~8 m6 c b ` I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. $ B% N, O- {& ?7 J: Y
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
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The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and 9 z- T) T7 A4 V
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya : H F" }/ @ H6 [4 s7 a
than close to the Home Islands.
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
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well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) , L8 a5 |6 J- A. B9 H5 Y$ ^( m2 F
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well / }3 a, n/ r2 B! _8 G8 M
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the ' p- s4 s2 E8 v
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work.
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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
3 s5 M4 m, [ h' Y) W S means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame ; k m, s- [: V# `$ Z0 }
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |