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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
& }' |, g' ?) o7 `( ? While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. , F! N+ [. v% u
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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0 n7 N% r" X0 k$ G, p Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
) G. L7 ?# V. }0 g I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
. u. x/ h( M+ P$ j* D/ R My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze ! n4 W# b( {9 d+ o9 d/ q
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. / C) z$ Z9 B y! l2 m+ F B
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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 % m, N! ]4 b; ]: D5 e. t' g' p
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 4 I. e2 c% i+ G
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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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
9 C$ O( G3 v6 ?" g heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
9 {9 [3 X- ~: m1 ? Z1 Y well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) ; I; c% f; _2 F; U# f* s6 i
- o4 k: Y' ~5 e5 T" C9 p Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well ( \3 g$ P. T: H& q6 ~
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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j2 M1 i- L8 j I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
: O2 G: J+ q9 y# L, X 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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! o% o9 ?/ Q* L* {- w+ { The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this ' P. E4 ~. l* N' w5 F
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
3 |$ R, C! _ B f/ [ in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |