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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
" h5 R! w& ~' v/ W! ]8 N& t+ O* ^( ~ While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. & ^5 M( \. S) K8 C
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. ) Y7 z; ^: y# ?0 h }: }5 `
: d: Y- r( X# s- ?0 ~ Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
: i) F, M, i: q1 v I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. # k1 S: j2 N+ E4 ~& B; o
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 / F. T+ S% D2 ?0 d) Y3 e
see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
6 `* g/ ?3 s6 Z) ~ than close to the Home Islands. + t: K: I( ^- \' ]% w0 l
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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! 3 L0 ?% P; Z8 {: W7 ?0 c/ v' b
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted ( q' b9 ~) O: v" X9 f
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
- _* O# Y9 i# O; N4 O4 s well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-) 7 |# P/ {' O7 q1 {# o
6 Q* _6 y! |8 A! j/ ~3 m* q Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well ' T1 T* Z8 ]6 x h
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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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
3 a, J) B# |) Z( P8 R 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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, G. Q# e" s) K. ? The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
6 _: ], c1 H6 g0 F means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
! Y% o+ ?, f% y in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |