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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! . a2 ?; G! z+ W2 D8 s4 G
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 9 R1 {1 W; }8 n5 D6 E8 G7 n
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. V% R/ {2 f; t0 X9 f% ^% r3 [
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
- D8 g7 |; |) g I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 8 M5 H+ t/ d$ H6 `$ p4 J5 W
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
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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 ; l* j* v7 ?+ l, Y! s8 O' j
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya . [8 [ }9 ?9 L# b
than close to the Home Islands.
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/ H% j7 G6 F" @& p0 c0 p Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! ! _! j# F# v9 t/ j) Q" X# n& w
; n4 f1 J2 d, v8 }4 b' S$ ^ s Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted }/ H. f! n* N3 g
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 3 \1 |) l3 D Y9 a
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) / d' |% _9 }% T1 S1 n
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well - J# ^9 Y/ W W
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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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 , y' P d h7 F; |
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. ( P- Q8 r3 Y8 j6 _( M1 k3 F/ e
% R1 y! z* \1 W, S+ v The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
4 R* c+ U" G! \* Z means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame . A; n+ Z' n" S+ K9 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. |