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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! . k: P; m! G. k$ J0 x w
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. W- P/ \& Q& t8 [: A5 G. s
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.
0 g2 h2 ~3 l; E/ A) d8 B" z* O' M! U I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 9 f* f- M, z- e4 ?" o( j
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze # k7 G- n# ^0 L* | i$ U
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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: }6 E# e- \2 @; f, P# v The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and
* |( C4 R- N9 [3 Z4 \ see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
5 @7 j- I6 A' g$ u+ y than close to the Home Islands.
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! ]% M9 F4 `2 }0 ]+ G& e7 i/ b9 e Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! % w. j9 c, B" p/ F8 r
5 K$ Y- B; T: p Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 1 E% T8 x" X; {3 s2 e# Z
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
' `. |! t, G5 a; Y 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
! ]: [- h1 L, L; ^3 `+ q& { 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
2 X( K; `. l+ D! a weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. ( J4 l( U/ [% j+ F4 i$ y
- E% L" M' d8 [( C The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
& Q# G: \# D8 E! ] means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame / O" B; i; {, A6 b9 Z& 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. |