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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! R: D- p: V- c/ j. H
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
. Y. Y5 [+ ]$ }+ B, C u# ]9 z Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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/ E, d/ Z$ k: r( A Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. ( }& |5 C! Z$ }. P
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
$ I6 X5 ?; y$ f7 z4 k My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 1 H3 j; [ h5 G4 d& ~3 Y0 t# C
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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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 . U6 ?* ?" y' o* h5 \, _. z1 D
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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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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: m5 `) d( o, \1 F0 c Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
. m( p6 _2 M! {: m heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and : l6 m1 z4 j0 ?. @6 X$ s! R. S+ Y* i
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) 1 G! |) [% H+ Z% S! X% v4 E6 i
6 i+ ~5 C/ @& } p% ~: F/ M$ |/ W$ o Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
; v5 W+ p% ~- \6 G Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... # @" s* H7 y, N& j# I8 Y
+ w$ Y* U- X9 N I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the ; K# F" L* b& A& i! y& F. k
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. $ M6 \: e* H! h8 M- j+ @; ~, @' g
( w& i, D+ C) z; e9 w- Z* t& a The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this # y' ^9 N( D9 W1 \% m0 _1 `" t
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame }! O5 {0 Q) N% n; s* L
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |