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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
4 ]+ F. K1 X$ H While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. ! ?8 S& W2 q8 i: A/ A
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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) j0 G y# t' W1 W5 ~0 I2 ~) r Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. , k6 B; o' }/ y
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. # l. Y2 Z2 k5 C) q
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
8 Q/ c1 {! k! j& f4 B: D# {% L* v attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. * u8 w& u% K; p
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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 % b* U( _) `" ~* _
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
" e0 a3 Y, W7 _2 ?( n: q) K9 w than close to the Home Islands.
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$ x: Y5 o: ? z: \4 j Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! $ `7 Q* \3 }" H) W
' H* h" {. l7 c; J" ?" B0 l2 m Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted : S* ]8 q/ ~7 Y k+ i$ Q
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
# _& E! d& D" n* T well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) I6 G9 p |6 a5 l* m3 g5 I9 P8 L
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
7 f4 W% i- |+ Z Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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) |; \9 ^( r- C1 M: U1 P I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
j3 V$ N# u* r# K l' ^6 U 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 ! R! U% M3 A- H& ^8 ~, @, S8 x
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
9 T: l6 l$ o7 B2 C in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |