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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
1 Z0 q, G {! _0 ?0 r/ e, H While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased.
7 x# l8 ~0 W2 @4 {4 T Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. / j' h! c0 D9 D# G4 }7 h
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. , u3 J4 j1 f" Z* U0 v$ f7 e+ ]- A
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. 5 ]: a6 M8 A7 y7 }7 N# b3 E/ a
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
. Z& g% i% y2 o; Q attacks on the enemy from Victoria Point and south to Soerabaja. No way Andy can close them all down.
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5 |' n9 \4 M w! T4 E9 k! z& @ The fleet will stay in port and I will not deploy the strategic air reserves. Let's play hide and seek and
4 f0 |" j1 z; ]3 v" V. d, `* i8 [ I9 I. } see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya
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8 S% a( V4 V" t+ |8 k& | Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create!
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
0 S/ F9 B% i, }3 k" z- s) L% z, { heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and
5 ?9 x' H" L# n0 f 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 6 f) w9 r; P2 [9 o" M
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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$ Z. `, ^; z' t4 g0 {6 ~ I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the $ t) A1 d1 K! |( b5 K- U6 A& G
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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9 g( } \. I% i Y The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this
: D: J; ?9 _& g5 P2 \ means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 0 T ?8 y7 k4 D
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |