Nemo121
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Well I thought it was time to give you all a screenshot of the situation in Malaysia/Thailand. So, if you look at the picture below you can see that I've managed to cut across the Malaysian peninsula and am using a couple of armoured Bns to rapidly spearhead movements south towards Singapore. There are a lot of IJA troops there and they should make a good haul of prisoners. Mike may try to evacuate them, in which case I'll butcher his shipping unless he commits KB to cover the evacuation, or he may leave them to delay me. Delaying me would be important now. If he can buy two months he can re-organise and launch a counteroffensive which will retake all this ground backed by a resurgent air force. I doubt he'll willingly accept the necessary losses though. In attempt to save troops in the short term he'll lose more in the long term. Anyways, the vast majority of my armoured forces ( some 500+ AV of tanks ) are moving towards Singora where they will march up the Thai coast towards Bangkok before spearheading the advance along the coast towards China. In the north you can see the IJA Imperial Guards + 2 Thai divisions trapped at Tavoy and about 16 IJA units trapped in Bangkok. I have also caught about 1,000 AV north of Bangkok blocking the other route into Thailand. They'll obviously pull back but once they do they'll free another 1,000 AV of my troops for the attack. So, all in all, the attack was a pretty good success. I've gotten just over 3,000 AV ashore in good order at the cost of 2 ships, the enemy's attempts to sweep the skies for his bombers has cost him just under 200 fighters in return for about 40 of mine and the second wave of forces ( more support HQs, engineers etc ) will be landing shortly. The invasion elsewhere is still on course and should hit within the week.... Since things are going nicely, trapping IJA troops and opening up new fronts I have decided that it is time to move on Peking.... 7,000+ AV of Chinese troops have been ordered into action in northern China while the diversionary assault into the Shanghai region has been ordered to fall back... I had overextended it to draw in his reserves and from what I can see this has succeeded.... his reserves have certainly disappeared from the northern front and should be arriving in the Shanghai region in about 3 or 4 days ( by which time I will be back in good defensive terrain and the troops in the north should be drawing the reserve off, preventing it from breaking my lines in the south... He has the strength to crush me but he's being forced to run troops from A to B and then back to A again with the end result that they never actually are in any place long enough to achieve something decisive.) So, so far so good. I can still only field 300 first-line fighters though and don't order bombing raids cause they simply don't survive. On the other hand by limiting myself to operations my forces CAN accomplish things are going pretty well. Really withdrawing the air force from almost all combat for three months from January has really paid off. I have well over a dozen full aces and scores of pilots on 3 and 4 kills, my reserves are full of pilots with 70 A2A Exp and and front-line groups have average experience in the high 60s with many individual pilots now over 80 A2A skill as a result of multiple kills gained in combat. I would imagine Japanese pilots are entering combat with high 50s/low 60s A2A skill now. As a result they are little better than targets for my guys.
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