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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 4 l7 d( O4 G y+ k# \1 M
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
* K9 w6 }, h5 x Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. - j% N, z, _& j9 ?! \" F
N; v+ q; {/ H7 d Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
, ^2 ]- W6 a7 K3 ~" S! z! `( k) k I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 3 M% S( f- r. B4 d6 m: ]6 _
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
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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 ) l! e3 A, K! b8 Z) x2 m/ [! j
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya ! R! C3 }) L' J) ?& ~3 n3 D# _
than close to the Home Islands. # r4 ~7 R Q! u8 C
7 ]7 |8 y" a7 T2 g Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! 1 N& l- L2 x0 j. V, c/ x; Q
4 R% b+ K' b7 s4 I5 A! o( y Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted & `1 p! w8 p$ f u$ E
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
- T5 i9 H5 i6 t6 a+ f 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
' v; x5 c* a' ^8 r y( h5 L Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... # \9 i; v' ?! [5 \- k* N
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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 + e* a1 S. w m9 Z9 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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8 [+ ~& ]6 \4 l: @ The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this ) g* R& _: c! B4 S6 ~" s& n) W( f( _
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
% v0 p, S1 X, E, w0 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. |