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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 3 E. ?2 M, A/ j
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
1 j6 f8 V; u }) K9 e Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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# j2 P. d& E( Q Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. ( E6 S- N5 j+ X9 E5 K& S8 h
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
4 u7 I' k" p) J8 g; E9 x: P My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze , l% H- L8 N) m/ I
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. / }2 O* B% V0 I2 x3 q+ B( M$ @
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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
4 d! i# o- C+ E9 o' O- S: B see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
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# y# u$ N8 l {3 i! j+ ^ Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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9 k0 _$ t4 N) y* l Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
6 t6 b- F9 J% w heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 8 |9 ], T! ^/ a; ~1 q- [
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 ; p* r+ E4 t1 |* }5 E
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 0 S& T/ T; d' N' M1 i' @
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. * ~ J* ~, K5 M4 X# W" g
, |, n4 f' m8 S% @) M' r* T, U The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this ' U: T2 L+ V: j; _
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
I P- r0 R3 G P, O in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |