Hey folks,

so I also want to give my final statements here as well.

I really want to thank everyone who was interested in this and even the experienced players having a look here.
Especially the very detailed and constructive feedback and suggestions are very welcome!

Again, this was one of my ...

Finally the crimea region:

The very good progress here came to and halt in the mountain region of sewastapol.
There was one very sucsessfull last attack in turn 15, after which both sites digged in and could not attack any further due to fortifications and the terrian.

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IN the south, things turned out to be a little confusing.
At turn 14 stalino was reached, which was indeed my target before winter. Unfortunatly there was almost no infantry nearby and I did not dare to do the assault on the town with Panzers + ModDiv.

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I planned to do ...

In turn 15 the sky was cleared again, and in the north the army can still count on good air-support.

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At turn 16 the advance came to an halt due to increasingly bad weather, turning the ground into mud and gave 18th army and PzGrp 4 a well ...

I will continue with my summary of turn 14 - 16, which was not as full of exciting events as our last turns.
Actually, center can be handled very briefly here, as not much happened. Priority was to regroup, refit and resupply units, there were almost no offensive actions in this area.
This is the ...

Another very successful "front" was again the Crimea-region where I was able to do the breakthroughs as RKhan described.
11th army used brute force here, with many pioniers, heavy werfers, much artillery and air-support and managed to take half of the crimea, including the valuable port in a single ...

Interesting developments also in the south with the generals of OKH to decide this front to be top 2 priority from now on there was also a decent amount of air-support and air-supply available.
The spearhead was able to take D'town at turn 11 and decided to seek the battle wherever possible.

Dtown ...

Also at AGN I managed to destoy his front depot on my eastern flank, which should cause him not to be able to bring much supply to this section of the front.
Maybe I overestimated this facor, but with no RR nearby I could not imagine him to have any source of good supply in this region.
In the ...

The supply in AGC was fully reliant on air-supply at this point, which I guess made the difference to not fully loose the whole frontline at this early point.
I was able to hold the bad position and re-take smolenks at turn 13.
The supply re-opened at turn 13, taking the northern RR over Vitbesk ...

Hey folks, I am back from a long, exhausting business trip, ready to give my update report for turn 10-13.

First, thank you all for your encouraging feedback and your interest in our game.

Turn 10-13 were exciting times indeed, with most substantial happenings in the center.
I will go on with our ...

One (yes, another one) major mistake, this time on tactical level was to underestimate the range of CAV units in one turn, leaving the garrison of MINSK very weak.


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This will play a role soon, when we will see the outcome of all this mess in turn 10 and 11 eventually ...

One (yes, another one) major mistake, this time on tactical level was to underestimate the range of CAV units in one turn, leaving the garrison of MINSK very weak.


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This will play a role soon, when we will see the outcome of all this mess in turn 10 and 11 eventually ...

The real thread came through the swamps towards Minks, cutting off my main supply line for smolenks.

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I fully realized the problem at the beginning of turn 9 and started to pull many forces here to catch the many Cav units spreading around in my rear.
Even ...

So north and south are bot looking pretty good at this point. No major defences made me confident to advance to sewastapol until winter and maybe fight towards Leningrad till next year.

Let's see the major problem, which RKhan already described pretty well before.
From my perspective the whole ...

At the end of turn 9 I seperated his forces in the north and built up a connected and good to defend RR with depot directly behind the frontline.
As said, I put heavy focus on this front and so far I was happy with the results here.

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Let's continue with the second more ...

Hello, we are back. Actually we are in turn 18, so we are a little bit lacking behind with our AAR.

As RKhan I will also summarize the events in turn 7-9 now, which pictured quite a desaster for Army Group Centre.

Lets start in the North, where things have run way better:
In the north I had almost ...

In the Center I managed to deal some good attacks on open ground pushing his defense further back.

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But a real problem I just realized at the end of that turn where my unguarded flanks and large parts of my rear - which will become a real major ***up as we will see in ...

In the south I was able to take Odessa already. 11th Army had held of rather big ressorces in form of SU's and was able to take the Port in one sudden attack.

Due to an happy fast forward push, which was considered to be a scouting mission, I found Nikolaev rather undefended as well and was able to ...

In Turn 6 things are getting startet finally.

In the north was a little fighting in the skies. In the battles Rkhan took severe losses in the fighter section and I started to believe in the north I gained clear skies.

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In the north I continued the ...

In the south I surrounded Odessa, preparing to attack next turn. Therefore I startet to naval Ops, without enemy fighters showing up.