<t> Thanks, Telemecus - I don't think it would have let me build any new I-153BS groups, but I'm definitely keeping the ones I have and about half of them are at the front and getting experience. As you can see, I was very rusty on how air unit builds were done, and my plans have been revised betwee...

<t> You're right, Redrum68. I should have spread out that cluster of mobile units better and made it safer. Another mistake I missed til now was leaving that routed unit sitting all by itself, and not moving it under another unit or better yet its HQ. I definitely made some goofs and left some openi...

<t> Yeah, the south pocket is almost a given, and I accepted that going in. Effective Axis interdiction means there is a nice group of units for him to bag. A passive withdrawal would have given up six units for surrender and 3-5 hexes of territory for free, so this potential pocket doesn't really c...

<r> End Turn 8: 9 hexes to Osinovets, 26 to Moscow<br/> Current Turn/Total losses at end of Soviet Turn 8: <br/> Axis 24867/140965 men, 338/1971 gun, 74/939 afv, 18/131 spac. Axis losses down slightly once again. <br/> Soviet 103950/1391246 men, 1268/17662 gun, 631/8988 afv, 137/2597 spac. Red Army ...

<r> 29Feb2020: I’ve been going slow on this turn; a combination of in-depth work and limited hours due to my shoulder. Hopefully I’ll finish tonight and get it sent off. <br/> <br/> First project is to spend some AP and create a pile of new air units. [<I><s>[i]</s>I'm including this full descriptio...

<r> Up near Leningrad, all of 4th PzG is now up near Narva. The FBD is down near Pskov so the panzers are only getting middling supply. They are still very strong compared to the outer defense line, and one of my brigades is surrounded. I’ll probably be pushed back 30 miles or more next turn towards...

<r> In the land bridge area, panzers are still 40 miles west of Smolensk. Defenses here are strong and deep, with all of Western Front now concentrated into a 5-hex wide sector. I may be able to keep AGC tied up near Smolensk for most of August, which would be fairly near the historical outcome. Tho...

<r> 28Feb2020: I mentioned the unusually strong infantry forces gathered along the Dnepr. What I can see between Orsha and just south of Gomel tallies up to 8 mobile units and 28 ID. Basically 2nd PzG plus two full infantry Armies. I’m not sure of the rationale behind having 60% of AGC well south of...

<r> Interdictions are very frequent as I pull back Southwest Front forces. A couple divisions are stranded in front of Soviet lines and will be panzer-bait. I suspect these are so frequent because the LW did no ground attacks at all last turn so they are well-rested. Are? Were, maybe? Yeah they are ...

<r> The rest of this turn will be pretty quiet. Southern Front holds on to the last 30 miles of the Dnestr River line, but otherwise pulls back up to 60 miles, making a line across the steppes to the Bug River. Southwest Front’s counterattacks have left the area east of Vinnitsa manned only by weak ...

<r> My second attack is targeted at the 1st SS. Six divisions are used, all assigned to the same army, base CV 25:6. Soviets win a squeaker - their CV got halved, but it still came out as 2.04:1. Casualties nearly equal at about 200 men, 10 art, and a couple AFV per side. That was a lot of analysis,...

<r> 27Feb2020: Southwest and Northern Fronts are the only ones with CP overload right now, and Northern only needs to downsize by two divisions. Southwest is overloaded by 21, so a whole army. They do have six pocketed divisions - 12 CP worth if forced to surrender. What I do to fix CP will depend o...

<r> Yes, this game is still ongoing. We just finished Turn 14. I've been too busy to keep up with AAR the last few weeks, but I'll get some reporting done this week.<br/> <br/> On to <B><s>[b]</s>Turn 8<e>[/b]</e></B>!<br/> <br/> First glance shows decent advances in line with what I’d anticipated. ...

LOL! Yep, at least for a few turns. I finally noticed how crap he was on Turn 11 and reassigned him to be Marshal of Ural AA defenses. I'm just glad I noticed before German troops attacked that army!

<r> For Turn 8, I’m expecting strong attacks on the land bridge and across the middle Dnepr. There’s an entire Inf Army 5 hexes northwest of Gomel, more heavy forces including panzers near Mogilev, and another big group of 8 panzers and 12 ID ready to roll east on the land bridge. Supplies to the Ge...

<r> At this point I can’t claim defenses are great anywhere, but I’d rate the central section (Smolensk to Kiev) as very good, along with Southern Front in the Odessa area. I don’t expect any of these three cities to be lost within the next 2-3 turns; Odessa especially will be a major task to conque...

<r> Northwest Front is very spread out at the moment. One army is spread in checkerboard screen in the forests west of Novgorod to slow down panzer/infantry advances. They will fall back past Novgorod in future turns and anchor the Lake Ilmen/Volkhov line. Three more armies are lined up, mostly in t...

<r> Around Leningrad, seven rifle divisions are engaged in digging strong forts both north and south of the Neva. I’m hopeful that all stacks on both sides will be able to get to Fort 4 (except in the swamp hex) before Axis can put the city under close siege. Three more armies with about 20 total di...

<r> 20Feb2020: Only a few AP have been used so far (48 left). I’ll probably need some to sort out NW and North Fronts, then will see about building Fort Regions and SUs. Northern Front 7th Ind. Army does a bit of shuffling and deletes the fort region at 83,2 to make room for a third RD in that hex. ...

<r> Western Front under Timoshenko is very strongly concentrated, with over 30 divisions holding only a 60 mile front in considerable depth. Two panzer corps are poised to strike, just south of Vitebsk, but I suspect they won’t get anywhere near Smolensk next turn. Moscow MD has two armies forward, ...