Now that we have seen something of what were historical losses, let's look at what the game has for LW weekly aircraft builds in the Spring of 1943.




Taken in total, that's quite a lot of aircraft being made available to the Luftwaffe.

Let's focus on the air component once again. Some of this is already covered elsewhere, but I thought it would be helpful to bring it up here. From Williamson Murray's Strategy for Defeat, this gives an idea of what the Luftwaffe historically lost in the key theaters during 1943, excluding December....

I'm not sure you really want answers to these questions as they might be more beneficial to your opponent than you. But since you opened the door, I guess I'll walk through. ;) Your opponent clearly followed the grind strategy, forgoing some territorial gains and so far has gotten the desired result...

Week 96 18 April 1943 As the heavy rains continue, Stavka plans for coming operations. Kharkov is to be re-taken for the final time by Zhukov's Central Front. Attention will then turn towards the liberation of the Donbas and finally the drive to the Dnepr. https://i.imgur.com/TLF57rM.jpeg General V...

Yes, event 234 has ground, air day and air night each having a chance to trigger the excess. Now that I have had a chance to dig into this, I think it's fair to say this trigger as designed is unwarranted. At medium air intensity, the Western TB consumes about 35 Axis aircraft per week. This level ...

Can someone tell me what event triggers Axis Air Day requirements for the WE TB to 150? Is it Escorts Arrive Over Germany?

I had that at 135 in the living manual but jubjub is showing 150, and I didn't see any related pop up in the event log.

Magnificent! The low Axis casualties shown in the break out combat reports underline how large the pocket elimination capture figures really are. The 4k Axis guns lost will not be replaced by an event either. 28,210 representing 1% of the disabled pool characterized as lightly wounded and returning...

It is fast becoming time to start thinking strategically. City historical capture turns in white.

Week 95 11 April 1943 The Axis defenders in the Kursk-Kharkov region withdraw several dozen miles to the west while making the city of Kharkov itself a front line city. https://i.imgur.com/H81LzBP.jpeg Prior to heavy rains falling and as part of this withdrawal, several punishing German attacks aga...

For the German defenders at Kursk, there will be no rescue. Eight divisions with over 100,000 men surrender.

The presence of no less than five panzer corps in the Kharkov area show the value of the city. Regardless, the rescue attempt succeeds and once again there is a pocket of German units.



Heavy rains again loom in the forecast.

I managed to solve the issue. Imgur kind of buried this a little bit, but the image link is in fact there.

https://imgur.com/a/JlI5PFe https://imgur.com/a/nEJRG9S Just an admin note, the image site imgur changed their format which used to allow for "images" to be posted. Now it is in the form of a "post" where I have yet to figure out how to post it as an image and not as a link. Als...

Week 94 4 April 1943 This week finds weather conditions marginal with the ground partly frozen. However, heavy rains are forecasted next week, and neither side can risk a potentially disastrous encirclement amidst heavy mud. German attacks this week in the Kharkov region do in fact leave the southe...

For no other reason than it took a long time to construct this, here is the Axis OOB for the operations of the previous week as well as the upcoming week of 4 April 1943. Kursk Operational Area IX Corps (Hasse) -83rd Infantry Division -212th Infantry Division -252nd Infantry Division -268th Infantry...

I would like to say that although I was skeptical at first, the Soviet 20 gun AT regiment armed with the 45mm isn't all that bad. Consider: The Panzer III is still going to be around through much of 1943 so the 45mm gun can contribute for some time. There are a number of German panzer divisions, aga...

As you might imagine, I don't have any real visibility beyond corps level of what is what within the Ostheer. All that comes from the battle results. I can speculate that units in the Orel area belong to Army Group Center, but as to what army, your guess is as good as mine. Same goes with the Kharko...

At 05:30 on the 29th of March, a steady rain was falling onto the trenches of the 112th and 97th Infantry Divisions. With visibility limited by patches of ground fog, the German infantry could initially only hear the Soviet armor as it made its way forwards. Sinenko chose to commit his 69th Tank Bri...

Sammy5IsAlive wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 7:04 pm If he is committing 300 fighters in one area then there are going to be gaps in his air coverage elsewhere and that is where I'd move my air forces rather than flying them in bad odds situations.

I couldn't agree with you more. It's just that there will be times when it isn't practical.

Years ago, I remember Telemecus in our multi-player WiTE game at one point ran like 800+ recon missions against a single hex to draw the Soviet fighters into a killing field. I can't help but wonder how dissimilar this one is. https://imgur.com/a/0dvJXFs I wouldn't have too much of a problem living ...