Your game is remarkably close to the historical situation. Your summer opening included. Luckily for you your opponent decided to stay close in the open, inviting the two pockets. The Northern one may be a 2-3 turn battle though depending on Soviet reserves. Great to see the AAR continue!


Yeah ...

Compounding further on what I said above, let's take a look at the losses this turn.

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In all the ground battle circles you see in the image above, many of those turned into routs for the Soviet units with losses of 4000-5000+. As a result the Soviets suffered massive losses of around 200 ...

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As hoped, German forces absolutely destroy the prepared Soviet defenses and panzers have broken through 70 miles from initial positions. Elements of 3rd and 1st Panzer Army have linked up in a massive encirclement of about 18 divisions and 2 corps east of Voronezh ...

Recon during the air phase reveals that Soviet positions are quite in-depth as they probably did detect some of the build-up from their own air recon, but it does not matter. My divisions are rested and very well-supplied leading to CVs not seen since T1.

T51 - June 7, 1942:

Welcome back everyone, its been awhile since my last post but let's continue for now with this AAR.

The German 42 campaign begins this turn after about 14 turns of pretty much no action on the front. As a note the Soviets abandoned some ground east of Kharkov and German ...

Yeah I'll update it soon once me and jubjub crank out some more turns, we're on like t59 right now.

I mean captured from a gameplay perspective. The way it is right now no Axis player can ever take the city against an experienced Soviet player.

Previously the last time before urban combat was adjusted urban hexes were far too easy to capture and were actually a detriment to your defense to have them on the front line. Now after the adjustments were made it seems Urban hexes are now practically impossible to capture unless you have them ...

Has the changes to auto-intercepting GA in the air phase been implemented since the last post? I thought there was but am not sure atm. Am asking since my fighters are also not intercepting any GA at all unless they are very close (4 hexes away).

4 – I ended up with about 15% of my infantry divisions on a TOE that meant they had no support squads in 1944 (this was corrected a couple of patches after we started – with hindsight I wish I'd realised the importance and gone back to restart) – but they became very vulnerable to routing and ...

I think they are moving in the right direction by increasing Romanian morale. They are still pretty much useless but can perform OK if they are the mythical 55 morale Romanians backed up by a German infantry division


Oh axis allies are 55 NM now that is very well deserved :)


AFAIK, the ...

The TOE indicator is saying that the 73rd infantry division is at practically at full strength while it clearly is not. The division is missing 44% of its support squads.

This weirdness with TOE and actual manpower in the division can also be seen in the 1st RM Mnt Div and Front. RM ID where they ...

German 41 1st & 2nd wave infantry division TOE requires 180 infantry ATs but only ever fills up to 90, like all the other infantry TOEs. This doesn't have much impact on gameplay but prevents the division from ever being "100%" strength.

Playing DotD myself, if romanian surrender triggers does it mean basically any units in the eastern parts of romania would be cut off? Seems to discourage defending romania aside from western romania which axis occupies.

I would say it's a bit different in this case because all leaders in the game are being dismissed due to bad performance while IRL some commanders were replaced because they were promoted/took a higher post, such as Von Kluge taking command of AGC and Heinrici command of 4th Army.

It is good to see ...

State of the Front:

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The Soviet Counter-Offensive has repulsed the Wehrmacht from the gates of Moscow and the following offensives have resulted in the capture of Tula and Kalinin. The Soviet offensive in the Vladai region and west of Tula have also resulted in a salient forming ...

NOTE: Please make sure you check out the end of the previous page to see the rest of the report of T38.

State of the Ostheer & Order of Battle:

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4th Panzer Army was left on assault over the winter. It will be useful for 42 but looking back now I think having 3 assault armies would also ...

T38 - March 8, 1942

Summary & Losses:

No more Soviet attacks have been launched since last turn. It seems safe to assume that the Soviet winter counter-offensive has come to an end.

Here are the losses suffered during the Soviet Winter Offensive:

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Since the beginning of the counter ...

T37 - March 1, 1942

Battles directly for Rzhev have stopped a few turns ago but the Soviets are now focusing on the flanks of Vyazma-Rzhev.

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The Soviets pushing in the Vladai region continue to take ground this turn and have pushed troops through a gap they created a turn earlier ...

Quick post to summarize and show the movement of the frontline from T31-38 and a quick OOB update.

T32 - January 18, 1942

Soviets took a rest turn during T31 and on this turn continue their assault toward Vyazma and Orel.

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The main soviet assault against 9. Armee is launched east of ...