1942 - The year of victory? (SOV AI)

[jubjub]

Can you show the chart of fuel stocks?

[tm1]

Nice work capturing The Caucasus, have you got any rails lines to oilfields, and are they send oil back to Germany ?


How are your supply lines looking that far from Germany ?


Any chance of seeing OB numbers and also your current losses please.

cheers

[Jukipo]

Nice work capturing The Caucasus, have you got any rails lines to oilfields, and are they send oil back to Germany ?

I have rail lines to oilfields. There was a million ton storage of drilled oil. Oil was sent back to Germany by train, it's now in Axis pool.

My oil production capacity is now 380 or 380.000 tons per week. My refinery capacity is 507, it equals 126750 tons of fuel per week. My refineries can use only 253.000 tons oil per week. So, I'm drilling too much oil every week. Each week my oil pool grows by 127.000 tons.

Synthetic fuel production is 97.000 tons. Combined fuel production is about 220.000 tons. All produced fuel is used every week. There is no surplus.

[Jukipo]

How are your supply lines looking that far from Germany ?

I had to use superdepots to get supply moving. I moved superdepot east when I captured more towns with large railyards. Rostov -> Maikop -> Ordzhonikidze -> Grozny -> Makhathkala -> Baku.

There is no continuous railroad in the Black Sea coast. I used Sukhumi port as a supply source. Supply was air transported over the Caucasus Mountains as well.

The superdepot is now in Astrakhan.

[Jukipo]

Turn 111
August 1st, 1943

Moscow sector. The front line has been really stable for a year. The enemy has moved troops away from the forest area between Volkhov and Kalinin. VIII korps is probing towards Bezhetsk.

[Jukipo]

Turn 111
August 1st, 1943

XXIV PzK made succesful counterattack near Yelets. The enemy lost over 10000 men. We have destroyed several supply dumps. Lipetsk was captured.

[Jukipo]

Turn 111
August 1st, 1943

We are pushing forward. The Soviet losses are 70.000 men and 500 tanks.

[Jukipo]

Turn 112
August 8th, 1943

XXIV PzK destroyed sevaral supply dumps, airfields and rail yards this week. We are not going to advance. Infantry divisions are going to stay in fortified positions. We are expecting enemy counter attack soon.

2nd Panzer Army HQ was sent to Balkans! Some idiot at OKW thought it would be a good idea to send Model away. I had to attach all 2nd PzA korps to 3rd PzA.

[Jukipo]

Turn 112
August 8th, 1943

Kempf Det. Army was redesignated as 8th Army.

Most enemy formations in south bank of Volga are now surrounded or destroyed. 22nd Panzer Division crossed Volga near Stalingrad.

[jubjub]

Synthetic fuel production is 97,000 tons. Combined fuel production is about 220,000 tons. All produced fuel is used every week. There is no surplus.

Interesting, so you basically get all of the benefit from just Maikop and Grozny.

[Jukipo]

Turn 113
August 15th, 1943

Enemy reserves arrived. XXIV PzK moved behind the frontline for resupply.

[Jukipo]

Turn 113
August 15th, 1943

The enemy is counter attacking near Bezhetsk. VIII Korps withdraws back to fortified positions. It is difficult to advance with light forces. German infantry divisions can't hold ground without trenches.

Enemy offensive continues near Volkhov. We are sending reinforcements.

[Jukipo]

Turn 113
August 15th, 1943

Das Reich captured Baskunchak railroad junction. Leninsk was captured. Formations near Stalingrad are now surrounded.

[Jukipo]

Turn 114
August 22nd, 1943

Allies Capture Sicily

[Jukipo]

Turn 114
August 22nd, 1943

Axis top aces.
W.Jung - 137 kills

All best pilots are stationed in I./JG 51

[tm1]

ORIGINAL: Jukipo

Nice work capturing The Caucasus, have you got any rails lines to oilfields, and are they send oil back to Germany ?

I have rail lines to oilfields. There was a million ton storage of drilled oil. Oil was sent back to Germany by train, it's now in Axis pool.

My oil production capacity is now 380 or 380.000 tons per week. My refinery capacity is 507, it equals 126750 tons of fuel per week. My refineries can use only 253.000 tons oil per week. So, I'm drilling too much oil every week. Each week my oil pool grows by 127.000 tons.

Synthetic fuel production is 97.000 tons. Combined fuel production is about 220.000 tons. All produced fuel is used every week. There is no surplus

Well The leader should be happy he wanted those oil fields and his Panzer's wont run out of fuel now.

Partisan activity must be hell down there tho, hope the Romanians can handle it.

cheers

[Jukipo]

Turn 114
August 22nd, 1943

[Yogol]

Thanks a lot for this AAR!
It sets a very nice benchmark for my campaigns! I like how you do the pockets so well. Punch a hole, drive tanks to it, kill them all off. You make it look easy, but I know it's not, lol. [&o] [&o] [&o]


I do have two questions, if you don't mind.

1/ I see in your save-game that you build several depots along the railroads, like we all do. But you set several of them at priority 4, not just the one next to the front. Why is that?

I only set the one next to the front on 4, the next on 3, the next on 2 and all the others at 0.
So, with me, it would be something like 0 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 2 > 3 > 4
With you, it's more like 0 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 4


2/ You do not seem to move units around in your command structure. Why is that?

- For example, there are several units with non-matching types & command points.
Take the XIII corps, led by Freissner. He has an Infantry rating of 8, but he doesn't commands any regular infantry, only Mechanised for which he only has a rating of 6.
On the other hand, the XXXVII has several infantry divisions and is led by Lemelsen. He who also has a mechanised of 6 but an infantry of 6.
So, if both troops are switched and Freissner leads the mechanised and Lemelsen leads the infantry, the infantry units would have the same command quality (6), but the mechanised units would now have a command quality of 8 instead of 6. That means that they would lose only half the rolls that they now lose (20% instead of 40%) on corps level.

- Another example are the infantry divisions that report directly to the OKH, instead of following the typical division > corps > army > army group > OKH structure. They will lose about 30% of their rolls (Kluge has an infantry rating of 70%), which is a lot more than in a typical setup.

- There are also a lot of unspent APs (241 in turn 98) that are not used to replace bad leaders with better ones (such as Konrad or Stemmerman, who both have an infantry rating of 7 or even Rommel which has a mechanised of 8 and an infantry rating of 8).

You are doing very well against the AI, so maybe it doesn't matter as much as I thought, but you seem to lose a lot of command quality overall and I wondered why you do it like that.