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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
6 z% b D' s( y& Q While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 6 E: p0 D# G0 N9 w6 y# } K# T
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. o' O* O$ D/ s5 a7 I q' B
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 9 o! S- p4 k1 D+ Z9 `5 a4 ?" Z
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
: h; U% J0 x' o* m$ g6 Q My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze " q$ R+ r& x" `/ m5 j6 H: X- H
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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( ~0 b0 i5 O5 |4 X$ B3 S B6 D The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and + J! x Y& c; w/ K/ I
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 2 T7 S7 [' o' l- @1 Q
than close to the Home Islands. 9 f" u! m3 z9 j [$ g
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! $ u: a. y; [6 i" t0 X
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted ~* n _" s/ V7 ^
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
- L8 W6 T: R6 ?0 P well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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3 e( L, S! z. h Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well * r3 ]# ^: S( W8 M2 p6 G2 D
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 1 p. A2 E7 B: Z- q! b2 [
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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 ( o) b( D4 J# L) P' n1 @
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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The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
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in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |