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: j5 Q8 g8 W7 u, P; fStatus: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 8 s5 I5 a9 I7 Q1 p7 b
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. " X' q# a- }- ]8 @( R/ c/ S
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. 8 b4 X; w) d8 y* \; Z/ [: x: x: `$ h
: P: d8 m. c; k& Z( t3 U- b2 ^ Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
: V- X6 U$ b+ X9 }; D6 T% s/ j I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. ; U8 W+ q+ y. v1 u/ I, F
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 5 C" [7 X! X" [
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
- L& |+ h* j- Q& X( d' n see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya T0 Q1 V* Q0 h* h
than close to the Home Islands. 2 v8 z+ w/ ^, z/ Z
9 w1 I0 k3 S) \ Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted " W2 K6 p7 P4 o9 W
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and , P2 ]( q5 q" f8 j$ F: o
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) 2 p3 o# ^. O% s3 {8 G/ H, b
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Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
* e% R4 L/ a, U8 ]% r( A9 I Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 1 K0 a: a3 ^3 F, K, b! J
( e& H X# O% Q9 R% i8 V% e; E) z% T, h I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the " |* e4 c s z
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. ! X: }* g9 G3 @3 Q2 A7 N5 a Y# e f
' A8 T$ T s6 f c6 u& @, M- \ The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
% O; N, d7 K* b6 F8 `4 b4 S/ ^8 G means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
! X6 j2 D) W6 f' E7 b in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |