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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
9 y4 T! {0 F7 B, C! N, O( D. P/ ^" L5 I* l While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
3 S% H8 ~* {- P7 q9 Z1 G Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. 1 x) |% f1 t% K( f
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
! J) N% f, R1 S0 w I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 2 [* A- C' i( T0 ?* r: ]/ B$ q
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
% E* m# t& v0 S( S9 v. V attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. $ ]6 I* D( |5 D0 h5 r
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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 1 C$ M, y7 h x
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
3 c* f* c3 |3 d# @( ^9 F: |( s7 \ than close to the Home Islands. 9 \ Z3 Y0 s3 `1 {/ N
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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& Q3 U0 u9 U- Q& C6 s) b* u Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted ( @+ N/ g, o. o2 `% {$ D
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and / O' m, C3 W3 T2 p
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) . W$ E# R- I# g" M7 {7 `
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
1 _2 U! T! F; x. Q$ h 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 ; v5 E0 b5 W1 `! P! Y+ U+ V
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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* m d# n8 Q4 Z! _+ j- s The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
# I3 s z5 f4 h2 ?5 O means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
/ w, J; `) p- n& X3 C8 k# f in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |