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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
* ?5 r+ H. J) p. a& x5 S While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. ; b* ?2 {' ?# C! G p- r! F/ Y
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. - ^* X' G2 `: \7 I
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. ( d4 B9 _/ H; `2 {( 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 # n) V6 j8 O7 i: T
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya : t. ?+ u7 x1 U, I. I* D
than close to the Home Islands. 2 c/ F! i5 N0 H: ]' g5 n+ X
' m: `) ]) {1 P" C& |; g Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! 9 z, O3 z3 y/ S4 U
2 ~7 S+ \2 h' E6 v: a5 y$ ~ Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 3 Q# U5 F* b. v8 D$ Z
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
7 W+ e' d- P# r/ s; }3 B5 } well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) . C) ?/ c* B& U+ b- ?5 ]) }! W
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well ' N( j9 [) ~' m4 D; s
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... ; w6 H3 W n" V
6 q* C4 A2 X3 M, v- u$ S 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 F1 _4 x$ F$ ^. ] 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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' @' L% d5 L* a8 S: Y8 W# m The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
: g- |# P) `' v/ Q means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 5 |2 H; @, ?( Z9 d& |
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |