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Status: offline | Managed to overwrite todays screenie...well, Andy has landed in Malaya!! 1 d8 T. N- T# h g3 y
While we lost a heap of ac on the ground at Singapore and several ships were damaged, I'm quite pleased. 8 J8 O% i6 H- A3 N2 n1 ~
Malaya is the perefect Malaria pit to wear down and delay the enemy. 9 v3 g4 I9 Q _ |0 y
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Will be interesting to see were Andy lands his troops, looks like it'll be the west coast.
8 g: G, i" i4 _. H I'm going to keep the bulk of my troops in Singapore while delaying the enemy with combat groups.
. \* c7 N6 ^0 b! N My first actions were to divide my airgroups into multiple bases. These will conduct naval air and kamikaze
6 d! x! ~; T7 |) r4 `3 ]7 u8 c 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
6 ~2 k: D p$ T" z5 @* M5 M) l& ` see how long we can delay the inevitable It's almost October 44 and I'd rather fight the enemy in Malaya ; s6 G+ O1 F7 D' [
than close to the Home Islands.
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1 ^) Q! C& j$ ~9 ]" a Got some other cunning plans as well, will be interesting to see what chaos we can create! $ l. U; A) Z0 }. L P+ D
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Nik, you asked about enemy subs: Andy has tried multiple sub campaigns, but asw groups - air and sea, have inflicted & W( T) }& |, A1 s4 l; v, j5 ~) p
heavy casualties and forced the enemy to withdraw with heavy casualties time and again. Most convoys have been big and 4 x( {* [1 t( A5 a
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 ! o! X) q0 Q" c
Will read about the Bismarck next time, all of them can surely not sink....
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/ |% m8 a. x, X) S I always regain motivation to play, but I've been extremely busy and tired lately. The going may get a bit slow in the
2 V% @8 |6 m5 x% C, X! v& S& m' S 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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The capture of India and Burma certainly has an interesting effect on the game. The effort it takes to achieve this 7 p0 k% O4 Z, o8 C6 ]+ T
means that only very limited actions can be taken in the South Pacific and leads to a somewhat historical time frame 4 m+ H; s8 b% d G
in the major theatres. Think I missed 75 points to achieve auto victory, and in a way I think that was a good thing. |