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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! - S! T9 @8 O1 y: X$ Q
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 4 r Y3 r6 Y) ^ y- z2 u3 `' k; H
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.
7 F) s; n# R% d$ ]3 [ I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 6 @7 D! I0 W7 s/ l6 j
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze & V, v0 L0 G# u& Z7 N [
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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# a! p6 J# x7 S( m The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and 1 B7 t, J9 c# j$ E, S1 l
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 9 \5 W! \8 ^" a9 v9 i4 v/ g5 z
than close to the Home Islands.
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& K/ ?8 S T6 ? Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! 9 ~1 r" ^+ `/ |+ f; u7 R, e; S
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
# A* u L, P# k5 x6 d heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 5 L2 `: x3 Y3 u7 J4 c, J" q
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) ?4 H/ l) R+ [& [% Z
: F/ D2 {; }1 _$ s+ i: D Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well , u# \$ d$ v {. h* F* n
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 ( Z3 Y, H$ I( g' \; T2 ^
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 6 r$ b4 i$ a9 }
2 U8 V, Q+ C! g* Y' L The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
+ x" w# Q* R/ V8 B: L: i means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame ' S" ` q* t' m7 l2 V
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |