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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
- |; x6 M% y! \4 I9 F3 U7 b; b While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
- ]8 G0 t# V' R* u Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ' K1 D$ X3 e' u" g, d2 w) Q
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 0 w& f6 S3 |# H
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 6 @: m! W2 J, N8 W
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
* j# S- E" F+ d& \( C; r! W+ O attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. ! D. N8 O! x) c1 O# ?- ]" p
6 l( L3 M6 w4 @) V' t The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and
8 E6 V. y1 r' W$ z l see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya ! @9 R* d f- D' t
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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+ e0 }# f) q) q9 n3 ?0 s( ? Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted / @/ C- v) Q, j8 q! u9 A
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
Y/ V2 w3 O. f- {% m well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) 7 \* E6 W; v' y k/ {6 R+ d9 ^
3 ~- y% h. D# p: |, Y: M Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well 4 V9 m0 A( ~8 ^% ~" n) s
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... / L8 T7 y: ^* K; g% _2 q# L1 e% R
5 W4 {# @& r6 r% ~ I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the ( I4 n) R: S* W2 V. s B" O% M
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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# N7 X4 ^6 [' d; ]1 u- B7 F) a6 W The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
# X2 D/ ]/ B7 t/ l% ?! t: W; t means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame . y/ u9 H! u, k% S. {
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |