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3 e& J1 ^3 o2 ~0 o; YFrom: No(r)way
+ S7 b& T4 a# D' V* D) DStatus: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!!
4 l* Y. w6 W5 S While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 3 S) T. a9 k6 F- x
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy.
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) K# O f* P4 I8 c9 C* z$ o Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast. 5 f3 _; e1 Y. i- e" f/ P8 P) @
I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups. ' s* I' m$ U- k3 G1 I
My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze 3 l0 n) |5 q! u; U# 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 5 z! ?, `# t* n/ F5 `! q
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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Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! . n! D* M1 L: n4 ~ Y8 N
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted
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well escorted. Why re-do all the mistakes the Japs did in WWII!?-)
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3 J; t/ b/ Z D4 W1 A7 A, u Pauk, the Musashi (or the Musha as Herbie-san calls her ) was SUNK as well 9 ]/ r; f: x8 g3 M4 ?5 B( B
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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/ S- ]* U% b: V* g9 Y: 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 ) B$ x5 ?2 D7 a% O. d5 S; U
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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) c. X+ I" g2 T0 ~3 |' p The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this 0 K! u6 T2 I# j B* {, I
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame
8 M1 J1 D7 X, k3 b* I in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |