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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! - z; C1 i n8 A0 w0 L, f
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
6 q0 C) J5 |' V1 `: h Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ; R: M. \1 p) J
* N' N7 {/ @2 F* [, t Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
) c3 w) L* O9 `& I3 J I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
: ?; T( U" r0 ]. k! s' C My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
: B# l& g- y8 S$ P8 i! b attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. 1 l: T! l/ M! ]9 [
. J+ w1 p- m) O2 _. M5 V e1 ]2 C The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and / @5 i4 R; Q. P+ j% |& W/ G
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya % J+ F0 V$ q: y0 y& W& t
than close to the Home Islands.
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; [. O! V# q+ T4 x2 U0 r4 O4 ^ Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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R0 P5 N! a0 I/ K- u; t Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
: P, ?7 X" t3 I; ]1 ^& ~ heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
* ~) i: ^( W* A* t8 ] 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
5 i+ G5 v( b$ h/ o; J" _7 Z Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... , C, q' S2 `; {9 ]- w
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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 0 f; A( `- P1 N* f! E' s# B' s
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. ; s& a7 T7 R: G/ P5 ` u
0 T% W( A, t2 q The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
; b- m! C! x; R: o( G" O means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
! p$ x4 I3 w7 F R2 X in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |