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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
4 H8 _6 A8 \" ~' v9 v6 t+ ~6 | While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. % ]! q2 L5 [; p
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
' c0 |0 V2 K9 K. o! ] I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. , N* ]7 W* k+ t
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 5 j9 G5 p; Y6 z3 @( {5 w$ V
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
/ v8 M3 i# {3 m see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
/ v \' e* V2 j" D% x1 s9 N than close to the Home Islands. % q1 t$ q6 c+ A# @% E0 p( F
9 o' W* J9 N; h3 ~ 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 1 q0 D9 Y* v- |7 o J) D: ^. h/ g( C
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
# g, w5 V: W6 s well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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1 X; ^% e3 E. n9 v$ d# p' m Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
1 ?" n( j6 X5 o, B" P1 v Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... / `$ o: S2 D9 k6 s7 H5 N5 \* g
- q- T. \, @4 w) q9 a9 V I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the ( w( G" `# Q9 j7 i3 Y
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. . O! ]$ N; c6 n6 Z0 `! Q* K0 U
: _7 l$ K+ J7 e7 w. {$ j* \% ^" F4 F The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this 4 i9 M2 P$ H4 [( S- u
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
! }1 }/ F, r& v y8 R in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |