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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! ; w8 r7 O! t8 J' J* y9 p, T
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 4 ~9 S/ J. v# }1 Q$ S4 [ G
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. * c2 C7 k5 b7 v
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
* l3 [0 A) w) x, i attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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9 A9 N1 X' v8 h9 X/ J6 l The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and
- H+ m; Q! y( e, ]5 T# n6 y see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
( q2 ~8 s+ A( B ? than close to the Home Islands. 1 p" V5 ^2 `9 d- c
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! S) N4 x# b. b" Y# H. M
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted . U" I. [/ l s& k0 l- w
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 9 {( I/ m) i9 Y/ h2 @ ]
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) ; F& ?7 _! B$ q4 z8 R- S
" r5 Q) a) I0 ?+ l+ o7 q Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
+ A6 s/ H8 C4 m+ T& q Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 6 D0 T2 T6 n4 S, Z
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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
( V1 \( A3 o0 U# G: b6 ^0 |5 M+ L 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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The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
/ N$ [1 F3 E7 Q- }# `/ h means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
: W4 l0 H2 L Z) c$ A in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |