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/ |5 D8 F2 a$ S, ?Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
1 |" |5 H8 } L# R While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. ( W: z1 D: E& E! Y% I- R( @6 O- F
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ) h! F! E/ @6 C# _# X% u
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
5 u1 _% }' P& [ |! M I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. # H+ m& W* T3 m% s
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze Q y9 C: f3 n8 h W
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
) Q r- M! U- ? r0 \0 ^ see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
8 v, `" ~8 C+ `" u1 S1 E( b9 R than close to the Home Islands.
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! 6 N5 z: t. r& G) i2 Q/ ]
4 V/ A# r. D9 E) l" Z Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
9 F( K, N3 | ^- l# X' c% | heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
; E/ [& v5 |- j' n2 Q% ~2 T8 F well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) 4 m3 t( c8 a% a$ E( `7 P# X0 w! D
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
& p6 b8 j# S7 W! G Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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" u1 }" s$ {8 w$ 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 ; y& L3 k6 q, a4 m: u( |
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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2 b% @- O0 r+ T& D8 x, ] The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
3 h- p+ k8 q) Y7 J' U/ X( l( W means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
( b+ G% P7 J) f 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. |