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( L9 E: \; C9 l. T' E5 C9 HStatus: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
^9 ?: X+ ^7 S- N: v* Y( H While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
8 @5 o" O& ]1 _: Z7 t; ` Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ; d: L/ ?1 S7 {; F/ K$ G3 n5 F
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
1 P8 q M; t# k: l5 L Y. h I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
+ ^3 K1 q+ e5 R My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze W4 ?% X& q% W( p* L3 S
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. ; t7 V- }% V# B0 k. C$ H
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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 9 ^: P* ?! C9 P5 r, N* N
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
$ p0 j/ z, D3 E than close to the Home Islands.
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+ _ _5 Y8 X. i' m8 o5 @3 ~ 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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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
2 T2 Z( w5 i* R3 c 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
5 [6 ]# Q- C' T8 Q o- h weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 3 n8 V3 }; O- d5 Z3 S8 U
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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 / n9 f0 ?$ G' n9 w1 [3 ?5 {5 F
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
9 k# l7 r+ ]3 e, L( z3 r; ` in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |