Great AAR, really been enjoying it.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: danprezell<br/>
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I dig your AARs Larry, keep them up. Being close to the end of your Leningrad operation, would you say that taking out the Soviet Fleet out is a priority? Is it worth the loss of the Stukas? And are the Stukas the only viable attack ...

<r> I've played this one a couple of times in the dim and distant past (not as far back as 1924 though <E>;)</E>)and attempted the full Market Garden op both times. It's a bit too easy as the Allies, mainly because the German does not put enough pressure on 1st AB divs landing zones near Oosterbeek ...

<t> Hi Mike<br/>
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Playback takes about 25 minutes or thereabouts, less if they fail force proficiency early on of course.<br/>
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I've decided I am going to mothball this one for a while. The Soviets are no longer a serious threat so it is now just about finding the quickest and most ...

<r> December 1st 1943.<br/>
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Enraged by continuing Soviet assaults in the Moscow sector, which are causing whole German infantry divisions to evaporate at a rate of two a week, the Fuhrer orders Operation Nibelung to commence immediately. The Generals protest. Not all of the artillery and ...

Your arty is all firing on red. You might as well throw rocks at them as do that.

<r> I was wondering why the Allied navy were unable to counter the German withdrawal historically.<br/>
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The German and Italian evacuation schemes proved highly successful. The Allies were not able to prevent the orderly withdrawal nor effectively interfere with ...

<t> Thanks Mike. I've owned a copy of the original 'Fire In The East' boardgame for decades but never played it as it is just so big, it isn't really practical. You need a spare snooker table just to lay out the map, and then you need to find an opponent who has (at least) a couple of years to spare ...

<r> November 24th 1943 (Turn 254)<br/>
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The stormy season ends and the ground freezes over. The start of our third winter in Russia.<br/>
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Preparations continue for Operation Nibelung. Moscow has been evacuated of civilians. Its wide boulevards are now crammed with thousands of tanks ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>There's no way the PO would ever have captured Berlin by '45<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Enquiring minds want to know how you figured this out....you have some kind of proof or <br/>
just your best estimate based on how ...

<t> That's true in my case. In my first attempt I played up to turn 99 but it had become a stagmire and I was unable to make further progress on any front, I took Sevastopol but failed to take Leningrad, Moscow or Rostov and had little chance of doing so in 1942.<br/>
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There's no way the PO ...

<t> Panzer losses don't look too bad at all. You need to use maximum aggression while you have all the advantages in the first year. Forget the losses.<br/>
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Don't let Ivan dig down along the rail lines in those forests to the north of the Minsk-Moscow road. It will cost you a lot more to dig ...

<t> Looks like Rome is going to end up in ruins. I think one of the reasons the Germans didn't defend it historically was because it would have been too easy to surround it. Which is what the real Allies would have had to do as I doubt they would have got authorisation to smash the place to pieces ...

<t> I've considered the idea of driving on Arkhangelsk and I would go for that option if I had advanced to the Finnish stop lines in the north already. But I opted to stay on the defensive up there so there would be a long way to go along the tracks before getting into the open terrain. Gorky I had ...

<r> October 10th 1943 (Turn 241)<br/>
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Muddy season arrives along with a cold front that sees snow begin to decorate the tops of the mountains. Supply drops, supply radius drops and ground shock drops to 75% for both sides. This signals the end of combat operations until the mud freezes over ...

<r> In the Arctic spotter plains report the Soviet flotilla is sailing beneath clear skies. 42 Stukas escorted by 28 ME110 fighters fly into the attack. The target is identified as a battleship accompanied by 2 destroyers.<br/>
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Thanks Mike. It is fun to do. There's so much going on on the game at the moment it is taking me a couple or more hours to play each turn. So it's good to have a break in between and write some stuff.

<r> September 22nd 1943 (Turn 236)<br/>
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Overview in the south. The pincers have almost closed on the Voronezh Pocket. Only 50 km separates them. Stalin's 'Stand And Die' orders mean that no breakout may be attempted. More than 200,000 Soviet troops are thus condemned to death.<br/>
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<r> Berlin, 19th September 1943, 1432 hrs.<br/>
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The Turkish Ambassador is on the telephone to the OKH command in Berlin. His call is answered by a <I><s>[i]</s>Blitzmädel<e>[/i]</e></I> who puts him on hold. The ambassador is agitated. He draws heavily on his cigarette whilst he waits ...

It's a fair few years since I played this last but I seem to remember that you don't get any airlift capacity on some turns. I could be mixing it up with another scenario but you might want to check if that is the case or not otherwise it might upset your plans.