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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
) R4 F$ N: f3 Q9 K* G# d9 K While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
- u9 b% X/ S8 A$ k+ p7 W# M' c Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ) ^, W0 n* }$ d9 t1 C
! r# ~" h2 r. n0 S Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 3 l* A8 q" L# R, ^. Z" ~
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 4 U- g) x" ]0 T7 E
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 4 s7 g# g7 X7 U+ a# \) W
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. ' T! K5 S9 p9 d2 N ?
4 t( }2 I- h# @/ D The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and
' @; C" L3 |* P see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya & r5 X$ V2 f3 z% @
than close to the Home Islands. ; W: V1 k# F( P7 `& p# d+ a+ D8 K
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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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( C! c" Y, G; j* q3 |/ h Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 2 Z. s: [7 s; p; s7 D% ^
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 4 t" ? ]4 o9 x, E+ s
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
2 M+ V/ |2 T9 \/ F Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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% E) S# M" ]3 \: l5 W: V& J0 H I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
5 V; R& _( v7 `( y& N 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 ) x8 y: l% m; K; s
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 4 w7 {. z- C* s5 Y
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |