ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Rader could have taken Karachi. He had you by the throat and only had to squeeze one last time, but he let up. I'm sure he had his reasons, but he made the strategic blunder of the game.
Moving a 7,000-AV army is a huge undertaking. It will take rader a long time. The odds of him turning that army losoe on Oz or Hawaii is pretty small, because he'll have to assume you've had more than enough time to garrison them strongly, even moreso by the time he could transport his India army that far.
He might go for something smaller like New Zealand, or he might give Russia a shot, or he may go into his defensive posture.
He's going to have some trouble in India. He'll have your 6,000-AV army nipping at his heals. So keep careful tabs on the situation and begin moving out as soon as you've verified that he's not coming. Orchestrating a massive retreat in India is tricky - it will be hard for him to put up any defense at all without getting those units isolated. So he either has to defend and risk losing manpower, or pull everything back and see you reclaim India in two or three months.
CR i don't think Rader will pull back. Not now at least. I still think he has the chance of annihilate my air force and pass the rubicon (LOD) and get to karachi.
Won't be easy, that's for sure. i'll fight till the very last man and i'll devote everything to this task....but he outnumbers me 2-1 in everything.
If my calculations are correct he might have 11,000 AVs in India plus those 3500 that soon will be freed for other operations after the fall of Manila (that will occur within a week at max). He has 2000 a/c against my 500 but, above all, he has pools that outnumber mines 10-1...
Then he has huge artillery stocks and his LCUs are all very experienced, while mines, at best, are in their 50s.
I don't know how is his supply situation but with all the industry centers conquered in India i bet he can easily feed his armies.
Then he has the KB which remains the real variable. if he commits her...well, there's nothing i can do to save India from its fate.
My Indian army now has 5500 AVs. The next Brit Bde will arrive within 10 days and will complete the 2nd UK division. Don't think it's enough to stop him...but probably it's enough to make his advance not exactly a walk in the park.
As always however i think everything will be decided in the air. If we manage to hold the line long enough with my fighters...maybe...
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