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# E' w. U# l7 XStatus: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
C2 R$ |: | I6 V+ b# u While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. ( o; D! n1 W4 M8 Y; W
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ; i0 ^( S* ?! y* P( Q' \2 o
3 B6 u/ b% q/ A1 T Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. + O+ O( z$ \5 W! y
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. ( r4 A4 I+ s1 h7 }+ s; w
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze / J3 f" C5 x$ {$ g5 I0 p
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. 7 S( I, R* L5 {! \, T
) U# R8 Y1 Y+ o2 x: G$ R2 \6 D The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and ) K1 H# c" |4 X: S1 G
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya }) P7 v7 n* {3 Z) j' Z
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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# Y1 c+ t4 V0 T& _8 P: T Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 4 }/ g7 } C9 j# r6 {
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
$ X7 a$ J$ Z0 N# p1 V7 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
+ T. i: X; n1 o! R Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... * _0 L# S0 v1 R m) U2 l
6 Q8 H* }, x0 L" M2 } I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
7 t# X1 t7 F; ^0 T, s% Y7 N% { weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. - ^+ {4 l" H! d6 I
- o3 b, V$ y+ l6 B The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this ; Q% S/ v5 g$ h! J/ e7 c
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 6 }$ M0 J! Q! M$ W+ I
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |