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0 ]/ C2 R) y9 A! b5 A( ]: ]Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
7 e% a$ M$ I4 [: Y- ^) \ While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
5 M& V8 v! }, L6 S5 H/ \! ? Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. 5 B/ H8 C! T& F6 H' C
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
8 |- D9 Z9 d& t; P9 t I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
$ g, X' {; k7 m& C My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 2 ?+ x1 s5 \1 g4 v9 m6 d
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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- z* S! b4 \$ F, C' _* z$ C The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and 1 i+ d% q; l% b: I; i( |9 f
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 8 y, j1 q2 U. U N; O: z' D' j
than close to the Home Islands. 4 \5 Y2 e. [" d( x) y& f; }
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! - E6 f3 ~1 k5 f6 G" Y& \: a' _
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
- J' i: T9 z( ~+ W; Z; h heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
8 Z% m; U u( d4 _ well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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( K: ^2 [ I- S. A Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
6 I& L9 A7 W! R- L6 m! ` X% L Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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( T X2 H3 E% ? I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the 5 [6 E5 A, B3 I) r) w5 A( ?
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 / n5 x' l2 x6 z6 _+ ~
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame * E" U4 V3 }% a4 l8 M" _3 O2 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. |