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; Q+ B" L# b6 o9 L5 t5 ~Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! $ g* o, @3 ^1 w! ]
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
* ~( Z7 O ^2 _7 A. n! G, ` Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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3 d2 I& G$ f$ B/ V6 S Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
0 B' T1 O: I: A4 ^5 t" u I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 3 S$ k: n/ k" q1 _6 f0 p
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze & Q( }6 N# q4 u+ g) B- y7 G7 ~0 D
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 K/ W& `8 j+ c) t/ M5 S) r5 D2 Q6 X
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
+ r$ i9 @0 m) A* ~) u5 E% y& k$ O than close to the Home Islands.
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0 B+ O9 V4 v) Y7 ] Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! 0 S8 V0 L% y. O) ?, L" @
, [& z6 d# c( v Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 4 S5 q4 S: G+ G; _" G
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
. h$ x- J+ w, l1 D 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
$ v- C6 B8 {) W% C Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink.... # B. ]+ r% h+ [/ T
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I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the , D i2 q0 b6 B8 k0 ~: g. d
weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. : d# y( q& w# e4 j. ^
* j2 B8 F: _# o7 N The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
/ N6 M8 q. B$ C/ b8 m& b means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame ; h2 U7 }, ?5 g) E" ~
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |