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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! $ z2 N' k4 S/ a. @7 C5 P, w8 k- W
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. ( C) M' p: d* W. j' H2 T7 K
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. & Z7 K, I' C2 H L; Z
, [$ ]0 N% z' y# e Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 4 S) Z! D. d; ^' ?) [2 D
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. ! V! l) e9 Y/ ?+ g6 {5 b5 v E
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
: Z# U H& S! e4 k* q see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
; z! ]: J/ G) ^9 z( X 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!
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 9 f. g; |+ N4 F0 {6 V9 e$ l
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
5 N+ v0 [8 P) H0 r. [- f: l well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well ! U8 f8 Z& Q. L1 ]' C, ?2 p. t
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
9 ~. e9 R2 M4 H+ M$ l$ L. ^; C$ t s weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. % p' l# Y9 d8 v% Q* _* K
: W4 p! g# t \9 `& N The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this 5 f6 Z5 I: R6 }( q4 [ K" v
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame / @7 `) J( y/ L# J' `$ 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. |