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- b% U- y4 b$ Q- g+ v3 \Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! ' l. X# u9 \4 \# y) `9 y% ^
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
: `0 g* _+ x8 z& h+ P Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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, z3 c) ? L8 M Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
+ f5 }8 Q& S! n2 q* f3 L! ? I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
% E! C4 C( _4 h& o" o' x) o My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
+ W: ]. H8 S- c attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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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
0 r* W* w# q: H see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya $ f" G7 h( p# Y
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! 6 U7 x u7 o5 |; g0 D
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted ) ]; w0 L& {3 ]8 C6 f
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
7 }: h- I& G+ e- D, x* 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
/ |% M2 ?5 T9 l. P% ~1 u/ |8 U Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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+ E; q& v Z! w) } I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
1 E, }8 S6 A) l3 }. }7 G weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 4 {% L \) l) M' e, c
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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 ' g, C9 k! A/ M
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 9 }0 |0 Z* q Q
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |