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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
2 H1 w! ^! Y1 M& _' {9 O) H" h5 B% V While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
8 Q' ]4 d3 @* ?9 e; _ Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 1 K8 K; G9 T3 J
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
7 p9 r& G$ L( T5 P8 ` My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze Q( Z0 D9 U4 x7 z
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 ( t' v+ I& U X2 C
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
0 q! X2 P5 s; G* f4 X: S+ U 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! / k5 f* \. H* [2 g
5 F0 D+ t a+ G, B: ~2 e% M) N Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
0 w f( _5 r5 L0 {4 p heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
9 d o6 `5 ]# D Q( }' c 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 4 F6 x1 ~1 y7 x* K: K3 U( d1 S
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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* d+ V6 X" A% }8 E& x9 j4 s I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the 9 r+ I5 N! C5 |7 J
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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+ r! Y9 m7 g% h5 K# p j' i The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
, W8 T# [" A1 I means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame ( B) U0 b2 G+ W5 I% D$ T
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |