Lokasenna
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Joined: 3/3/2012 From: Iowan in MD/DC Status: offline
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My latest decision has been to save what I can of Cavite Base Force, though I forgot the Asiatic Fleet behind (and I assume I can just rebuild it, honestly). Nothing else out of the PI. This is after seeing what even a trickle of supply can do for the forces there, in Bullwinkle's AAR. Delay long enough outside of your strong points to build forts, then hold there as long as you can with as much supply as you can get in. It's worth losing xAKLs if every other or one in every three makes it through to unload 1000 or 2000 supplies, in my opinion. Same deal in Malaya. I think it's worth pulling out some units (the RAF air HQs, for example, and some other support units) but I'm leaning that you should leave as many combat forces behind as you can stomach losing, to delay longer. There are several points down the Malayan peninsula, assuming no Mersing gambit, at which you can delay the invasion before it gets to Singapore - giving you more time to build forts and use up less supply there. I'm thinking Kuala Lumpur and Johore are good places to build up some forts to try to last through a couple of attacks before retreating. Doing so may allow you to get forts in Singapore to 4 or even 5 before he crosses the causeway, and if you have enough combat power in place behind those forts that forced shock attack can be devastating to him and severely disrupt his timetable. It may be the most important thing you can do early, aside from making larger strategic decisions on where you're going to focus your shipping/bombing efforts/etc.
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