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# g3 N5 b& [/ ^Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! ! G, S" M0 x2 o$ O0 e8 r
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
' [' [$ j- y8 i- w 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. % {/ w" J7 b) p* ?7 E
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. M8 n$ K1 R! V: ~
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
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/ u" \$ A3 z3 \ The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and 2 U( b/ W) t* ?% l
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya 9 h/ W' t% Y( n, X- t. {
than close to the Home Islands.
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2 ]3 q% G, a& b% {1 x" q- V Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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. F8 ^ c4 q9 M: N A Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
& q3 j+ Z* l- m+ j) q& T heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and , e- [) L S. I) m- Z. l9 S# ?
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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( e" c( w$ Y* p5 L2 ?$ t Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
8 z/ ]4 J" `- M# ` Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 8 O3 F, x* s; f" D& t* {
# }1 C& R' P/ {/ l. ^+ \/ k I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
0 Y' r6 `0 C0 A 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
/ d. [0 _* N, d means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
|9 K; ?/ x9 X- \/ M& 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. |