Thanks!

How do you post messages to your opponent in PBEM?

Yes, you can keep playing... but as my line was starting to buckle, I think I will just take my 'winner' ribbon and go home.

I would take you up on that, jonny!

K, Vic says the game is dead. Corrupted file.

If you would like to try again, pls respond to this post.

Thanks, Herbie!

Vic, for some reason my second game, (not the 2nd Kharkov with herbie), is working now. Yeah! I'm playing Case Blue PBEM now.

Should I avoid 2nd Kharkov as a PBEM game?

<r> Below you can see the start of the end of my offensive actions in the east. This was my last big push and it nearly resulted in disaster. <br/>
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I had to throw away some axis allies to save the German armor. (Really, though, what else are you going to do with those Hungarians?) My recon ...

<r> Heh, ok. Well, I ran into the Russian winter reinforcements and got chopped up. I had to stop my head long rush to the east and form up my lines. I kept trying to go on the attack, but it would always be the same:<br/>
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I would punch through, cut off and kill a couple stacks of enemy ...

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Would it help if I delete the game and redownload it? This has happened on two different PBEM games.

(edit) Vic, when I try to go to PBEM now, I get the error:

Error Report: Serial number is non-existant [3]

Help me Obi-Vic, you're my only hope.

Yah, Normal AI. The AI in this game is very aggressive and smart about breakthroughs.

It's style of play is very similar to mine, (aggressive that is, not smart [:'(]), and it was rewarding to finally put it on the defensive.

<t> I started this scenario as the Russians, and the computer lead Germans punched through my line in several spots right off the bat. In a couple spots, as the Germans I attacked the same hex several times with high casualties before I could dislodge the defenders. The computer did it first try ...

<r> After that it was off to the races! Once it was clear I was into the Russian rear guard, I just put put it in overdrive. Whenever I hit a group of defenders, I just swarmed around them. This is when unit cohesion just fell apart. There was no time to keep things neat, it was a race to cut off ...

<r> The only way I captured Rostow was to sweep all the way around from up north and cut it off. Those hills and forests north of this pic are a bear to claw your way through.<br/>
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<r> There were a lot of German soldiers buried around Rostov. I never really did break the line here.<br/>
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<r> Early on the German casualties came from repeated attacks. To crack the Russian line I gave up on finesse and just hammered on spots till they finally broke. <br/>
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I had a HUGE number of "Defender Holds" results, even after air and arty softening. The middle of the game most of the ...

<t> The Germans ground out a lot of casualties the first month beating their helmets against the Russian line with it's seemingly never ending reinforcements, many a German soldier was lost as the Russian lines closed back around German attacks.<br/>
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The line at Rostov proved too tough a nut ...

<r> German casualties were heavy at first, but then I got the hang of the encircle and destroy attack.<br/>
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<r> Mid January, German Sudden Death Major Victory with the capture of Stalingrad and Baku.<br/>
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The ruskies were starting to pile up and push hard in the east, but they lost heart and surrendered when Baku fell to a desperate German push south.<br/>
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Sent info again to your email address.

Thanks
Dan

(edit) Nuts, just realized I sent it without the Serial Code.. which is home. I will try and get that today and send it out.

(edit) Ok, serial number sent.