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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
8 a! V9 p3 I3 T/ G, B. Q! { While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. , K' c; t6 D) e$ U; ?( P' \
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. s/ _9 u( t' ^1 |, J5 l
9 M+ D, I% O7 A1 h Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. + B2 K0 n; i8 i: {/ {% V3 `8 q1 B
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
; C& h$ G7 s% J/ n& O My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze " p1 J( h$ d3 v7 |5 E9 B. i/ ]
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 ( G8 E( b- N1 l) i0 o3 `
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
- ]6 j& G" F4 _% A* N8 i" ~2 f 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
' O; G9 N1 v# t7 T$ l heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
% s0 T* y: m' _% m" L X 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 7 i" B( M( m" [5 C7 i1 e* |
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 5 b! I6 v9 Z% q6 d
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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 3 s0 D% I* X0 d% ]" `' N
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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' `, S8 i9 u! P9 F: A The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this : ]! L: t: `3 |* [" f! P/ q
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
) H2 a) r$ p6 o& D; p. W in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |