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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
8 \! m/ F5 E/ U4 n v J3 a While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
$ k0 _+ _( A8 |( |+ D0 F$ {% S7 v Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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G6 b1 Y9 X$ ^8 X% `5 I- J Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. ! P6 R4 z# j- [# d4 B! O4 V
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. @% X# H" N: t; k, L1 f, l0 W8 H; t# E
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze / U9 |0 @% f, n) T: v/ _7 m/ y ]
attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down. 7 }4 K, V/ P/ b7 t
0 H. J8 e7 f7 T& z& H The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and 4 d7 [, A8 S& T9 g' l
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya . |$ Y! k* R" Z8 n# Z( L% E3 ]8 l8 Z1 |
than close to the Home Islands. 9 W V( o' V/ j" B0 x5 _
! b" b C) Y4 r2 }) B* m, [. p Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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) D+ g. x8 `9 x Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
4 z5 C2 N8 L+ K2 l X heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
' j8 c9 D* Y. n2 l& V well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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4 {) j, N" g4 A' D- k2 m) u a; t Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
% p3 U; U7 \+ {+ o$ w7 M* E( m Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... 5 j J' D2 I( E5 G; W* m8 Y0 R
3 x/ _' \; P% x2 X# v. r- ` I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
4 `+ _! X9 w7 e }8 M weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 1 ~7 r7 v1 Q ?# M% V. r8 b
3 l A6 e" x6 p0 |1 Z The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
7 ? A2 c3 w# O' t( b means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
; ?3 }7 ?, J5 [! O7 X$ b3 M8 x in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |