Updated v1.1.2 released, see first post .

Lots of minor changes and bug fixes, but of more notable changes are:

Oranienbaum salient is now reached by regular sea transport instead of walking on port hexes. About two Bns/day can be shipped. It's recommended to move by distance hexes and use ...

Turn 52
October 17th

Two objectives are lost this day.

At Kirishi a local enemy attack pushes towards the rail line, but our counter-attacks restore the line.
South of Chudovo the enemy captures the bridge at Radishchevo and here we are unable to take it back.

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By the Lovat ...

Turn 51
October 16th

South of Chudovo enemy attacks against the bridge/objective at Radischevo is repulsed as he is unable to dislodge one of our tank battalions without armour support in his attack. (Not shown)

By Staraya Russa after having mopped up our defenders at Davydovo he renews his ...

Turn 50
October 15th

Overall a fairly quiet day from both sides.

Our surrounded forces at Davydovo surrenders after several assaults, but this is the only enemy action in this sector.
South of Svinoroy the enemy pushes back on our protruding front. Although he doesn't encircle us, the chaos ...

TUrn 49
October 14th

Minor attacks by the enemy, where he gain a little ground in the swamps north of Staraya Russa and straitens the line again by Leningrad.
Halfhearted attacks against our newly captured objecive by Kholm is repulsed.
We completely refrain from any attacks this turn and are ...

Turn 48
October 13th

Despite having lost a Pz-Btl the enemy is still able to encircle Davydovo again, this time reducing the pocket to just the town itself. The town holds this day, but about half a division disintegrates in the fighting.
Reopening a corridor to them would probably be possible ...

Turn 47
October 11th

SW of Otradnoye enemy counterattacks blunt the tip of our advance and after this we go over to the defense here (not shown) .

Also counterattack west of Spasskaya Polist' that straightens the indentation we had made in the line yesterday. We even lose one of our Rifle Rgts ...

Turn 46
October 11th

By Neva the enemy retakes Otradnoye, but our renewed attacks take it back once again and even push further into the enemy lines, but any real breakthrough it is not. We make supporting attacks on either side of Sinyavino, but only manage small gains on the western part with ...

Turn 45
October 10th

By Neva the enemy shortens his line North of Mga as a response to our attack. Direct assaults capture Otradnoye, but fail to expand the bridgehead north of this.

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West of Spasskaya Polist' remnants of the encircled formations escape, but we DO manage to ...

Turn 44
October 9th

By Leningrad we begin a smaller offensive over the Neva in order to create a bridgehead for a later attack towards Mga. Initial objectives are the smaller town Otradnoye and reach the swamps 7km SE of Neva River.
Leningrad Front assigns an extra Tank and Rifle Bde to 55th ...

Turn 43
October 8th

We now launch the operation out of the Volkhov Bridgehead. There aren't any large victory objectives within reach, but our previous offensive towards Chudovo have placed the enemy 254.ID in an exposed position, with its rear blocked by the Gazh'i Sopki swamp. A quick blow ...

Turn 42
October 7th

Local enemy attacks by Chudovo again. Today we make counterattacks and push him back again as well as additional attacks out of the Pogost'ye salient and by Kirishi.
These are mostly just harassment attacks although regaining the terrain by Chudovo serves the purpose of ...

Turn 41
October 6th

The enemy was having command issues and didn't perform any attacks this day other than overrunning one of the battalions by 374th Rifle Div, closing one end of the bag.
It would still be possible to evacuate part of the units south, but as stated yesterday we will remain in ...

Sneffens - the scenario is stunning work. Both of you - the reporting is fantastic. I check in most days.

The troop density, even in the middle of nowhere, really highlights the scale of the whole five years of conflict.

Stefan, if you lose this, I will kill you. I already do not forgive you for ...

Turn 40
October 5th

Again small attack by Volkhov Bridgehead, but we hold the line this day. Assuming the enemy is trying to spot artillery positions to bombard (not shown)

Enemy attacks at Ramushevo corridor makes more progress this day. West of Tsemeno two small pincers cut off a regiment of ...

Turn 39
October 4th

Small German attack by Volkhov bridgehead, gaining an additional hex on the objective Rashishchevo. We refrain from counter-attacking as we are saving our forces for the upcoming attack a bit further south. (Not shown)

At Ramushevo corridor there were only the usual attacks ...

Turn 38
October 3rd

This day we receive intelligence that reveals a German plan to launch Operation "Slingpflanze" against our forces by Staraya Russa, capturing the bridges over the Pola. There is no obvious signs of this yet, so the actual timing of the attack is uncertain.
We finish off the ...

Turn 37
October 2nd

The Germans complete their small front correction at the Leningrad Corridor. We don't send more reinforcements to the area. (not shown)

At Ramushevo corridor the enemy attacks expand this day. Attacks on Vasil'yevshchina on the north side is repulsed, but south of Zasovo we ...

Turn 36
October 1st, 1942

Small attacks on the eastern part of the Leningrad corridor by the enemy. We are pushed back a little, but as no new enemy formations are observed it's assumed to be just an attempt to straighten the front a bit. We have 61st TB in near reserve, but send a couple of ...

Turn 35
September 30th

The small attacks by Kirishi captures the rail line to Pogost'ye. (not shown)

By Ramushevo I forgot to mention yesterday that the remnants of 14th and 15th Rifle Brigade was pulled out to be reformed into 228th RD. This is part of the plan to build up a stronger reserve ...