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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! & \; P' a/ P R
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
% O* m0 _5 P, e; Y Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. r/ c, t# t( `- k
) s; b/ Y8 {$ o3 b$ X3 Q7 V9 n1 [# P Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
& c& n0 x0 C+ O- x: i0 p I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
) M7 U$ @7 q7 G$ R 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 # }( U! Y! w) V: k
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 2 u7 } A; S0 A# P
than close to the Home Islands.
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0 _% ~/ k, R2 l: B( n' o+ q Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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# {) N$ E2 ^5 h. `/ ~ Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
& T$ E0 k" ]# @# v+ J+ G heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
- h4 o, I& l# p" A: o4 [ 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
$ j2 F- T( `& m6 z! _# I$ Q Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... ( c5 a0 [( g) j5 R, H
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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
6 C+ w z$ n) [8 _ weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 0 }: c" q/ \ P$ e
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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
6 H0 u/ @1 w! w# d$ ~4 O: L7 C means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame % d7 _3 | b4 N3 X
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |