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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
* O6 _4 x) m, k# e While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. + ^3 S- }: Y9 V7 V/ x$ e- \
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. " O9 t6 ?& G2 T$ M1 P, {
: B* C: P( A7 b6 R1 ~( Y$ [ Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. ( i/ |# [$ U, g: F) z4 [
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. : n0 ~- v$ C. p- O9 F9 b
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze , k" B8 u( O8 {) p
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. $ Q# T% C2 E" G6 W/ z& V( Q1 l
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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 I# N& j* q! |3 q/ q
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
1 Q: R* s5 J2 H. W+ q than close to the Home Islands.
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0 D/ S3 n* W0 v7 x T 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 ! [: t6 p( Q% I- `! Z1 Z+ d
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 8 I5 \% v0 n4 V0 V, \! ` W
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) ! S3 B2 @6 o I5 ]. m9 l/ d
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
7 b. f z9 u1 s; L Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... + O/ f0 o6 F: O7 E9 c
/ i+ }' j* y, [9 G I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
2 S5 n) s; \* F" A 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 ! u9 ^, d& @% L& |
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 2 W( a% ]+ k& 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. |