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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
/ F& N. p* N6 ?; D# f While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. t$ l! t8 e/ b9 x* N
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.
2 t1 P, @- k' v" u+ u I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
2 C3 a6 s9 z) t4 Y' i5 X My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
l" u# B( R1 H& [ attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. ; J6 i- F& r9 Y, E' B; e0 U0 N
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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
, P8 v7 k- A; H1 b; j- I see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 4 X4 c; K% B- F6 d; F
than close to the Home Islands.
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
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0 _! }" i$ g8 E well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) + J2 {/ ~% p* ]* y7 G, ?
! _9 i) m) a6 ?9 U3 j Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well % h9 i3 s5 Z+ c+ g* T {
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... - f0 I) o0 R4 Y* U% g6 X
4 N' P1 d7 d# P ~2 u I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
4 @! l( B% j' F3 ]1 i, V% V, C8 ~' t 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
T/ _: I w. V; C& U# E/ w means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
9 ^- F U1 i. p9 N. U3 B8 e/ h in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |