<t> Ah yes, it was very tempting for me at the time. I was imagining Santa coming home with little POW Christmas presents in his sack...<br/>
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I think exploring its potential with Telemecus et al was very worth while. I was not as experienced with specific TOEs as the others, so I wound up ...

<t> Excellent work so far! All of your efforts are rapidly approaching a crescendo.<br/>
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Now that you are north of the Volga in force, I see a significant opportunity in the North that is practically beginning to be exploited. Bear with me here, and please tell me why this would or wouldn’t ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BrianG<br/>
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I have no idea why my war photos keep coming split screen.<br/>

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Assuming that you are using the Windows Paint app...<br/>
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<t> >Lake Ladoga also has some ice road rules to deal with the differences there between summer and winter.<br/>
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Now this is something I'm very excited for! Lake Ladoga: home to patrol boat skirmishes, trucks (and trains!) travelling over the ice road to supply Leningrad vs using boats ...

<t> The depth of knowledge for the air war rules is truly impressive in these posts. Thank you for stating your thoughts on the air war so clearly. It's like night and day between treating the air war as a sideshow and playing the air war passionately. I struggled to understand how the Kabuki Dance ...

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Holy smokes that ...

Can't speak for anyone else, but I have been enjoying this AAR quite a lot. And yes, as Crackaces mentioned, it has led to very interesting results that we can study. Right now though, I'm looking forward to your answer for the Soviets in '42!

<t> Dear lord! I haven't seen the Soviets on that side of the Dnieper in a long time. You good sir have given us a very interesting winter to watch. Your reports are top notch might I add, and are very enjoyable to read. It appears that with the line so far west in the South, the Soviets might ...

<t> I'm impressed you have held onto Rostov so far. No doubt, the light infantry in the sector makes that possible. It would be a great jumping off point come Spring/Summer, and your logistics would be an extra 10 hexes forward than the average Stalino defense. I will be paying close attention to ...

<t> Excepting Crimea, you seem to be in a good spot to weather the blizzard. Soviet momentum is going to peak in the next few weeks, but judging from the win/loss ratios you should be able to pull off a successful strategic retreat in several sectors.<br/>
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As for the Crimea, it will indeed ...

<t> And yet it was still a surrender. Did I say unconditional surrender?<br/>
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Yes, Finland could have ended up like Iran did in the early stages of Barbarossa, but I think not. Iran was antagonistic to Britain and the Soviets, while Finland had a good relationship with Britain and the USA ...

<t> Yes, the Finnish politicians were never convinced Germany would win the war, and in fact severely curtailed their interest after they realized the war was lost. They were secretly negotiating surrender with Soviets since 1943. It is also true that it took significant encouraging by the Germans ...

Yeah I like that idea. Reduce Persian LL by ~50 in that case? Bad roads in Central Asia, even worse than Caucasus, and longer travel to the front.

<t> You're right, I did some digging and a look at a 1941 Soviet railnet shows the infrastructure in the Kola Peninsula clearly cannot support heavy weapons - or anything more than a battalion really - in the area. Historically, German planners for Barbarossa pauperized the Northern front, and it ...

<t> A major periphery consequence that stems from an Axis capture of the Kola Peninsula, is that it allows for placement of hostile military assets (naval gun batteries, airbases, and submarine bases) on the western coast of the White Sea, to blockade merchant shipping from entering Archengelsk its ...

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Whoops, beat me to it, Zemke. AHEM:

Join up for an exciting Soviet front commander position. Guaranteed adventure. Maybe a little too much adventure, actually. [8|][&o]

Contact Zemke if interested.

Hobo, with regards to Parinor, it's up to the rest of your team if he is to be replaced. In the case that replacing him is the best course, please have your CoS offer his position on this thread.

<t> Axis arrangements for Discord have already been settled. Soviets will need to have their own Discord. These Discord servers will be segregated and neither team is expected to enter the other.<br/>
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I have set up a Dropbox for all players, separated into three folders: Axis Turns, Soviet ...

<r> We are at war gentlemen! Good luck to all. <E>:)</E><br/>
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And remember, as Marshal Budyonny of Soviet Union say, "A tank can never match a good horse." (He actually never said that.)<br/>
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I look forward to my honourable opponents' use of them in the winter. Until then, forwards ...