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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 3 p2 ~6 F( k" v; B% P
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
' U6 ^; Y5 s6 p9 w. E# X. ~ Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ) Z0 j7 X) w! t, L9 z( N$ g* \
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. : @; e, q2 c: \% B; R- p
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. . ?# r% D b E# @
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
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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 / z9 i/ Q: t" Q- D$ D) {
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
3 x% U4 i/ z- ^3 M. _ than close to the Home Islands.
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1 c% g& T9 _9 K1 p7 X! a8 t Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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& _8 `. c. X+ ? Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted 2 D& q& x1 L5 f" I
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 7 j. q% [5 W+ J3 k. h0 K, ^0 t
well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) : H- x2 y8 D- _+ B/ u7 i2 T" n& N
' S, E6 Z2 |. R j% G( u+ l; e Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well
]" T% [/ {- N2 A6 @) v$ {8 @ Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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; q. p) s2 r% j2 l, U I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
$ B A7 K% V2 L% ^ \ weeks to come, will have 10 days vacation with the gf in a week Before that I'm a busy bee at work. 4 y4 n! c7 T7 @3 b+ w9 e, T9 a; T
- |# B; S+ Q: P- ~. _+ O The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
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in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |