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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
$ m x O5 u' q( M* O1 t. E1 S8 } While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 0 U* F" X' p7 Q
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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' J% v, `8 N9 P9 Q* k Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
8 Y( h( A k! o I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. P! }/ \1 B$ ~. u Y0 P0 K$ y
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 5 \1 B+ M, y% P- u0 \
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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$ C0 e: M" [' p. h0 q% j, e- w The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and 6 a9 F% v0 g- E: V: K
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
: ~" R) k, {% w4 @7 ^2 r than close to the Home Islands. 4 a- a9 i8 h9 t. E' i$ Z( c
! F0 ]4 d3 Y0 J. ~- T( L Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! # u! C6 M7 U& Z8 z
$ R5 W2 f' @9 b& K" p; y9 m Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted ) N- a& Y' @3 U
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and ! K1 c: D1 ~6 [2 @
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) ! ~3 W' M1 ^8 [- ?7 [/ g
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
: I; `7 P9 e$ y- l& O Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... ! M+ G6 B/ [. @
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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 5 \8 E' J, k E3 u3 |% p) |
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 0 V) D, j) C M9 F- ]$ o, f6 x# s. Q
3 `# N& {* u" Z The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this * O- K+ i0 E! l0 D
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame : U. |* J+ a5 Z( P
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |