Drive To The Caucasus - A 41 Campaign

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Leader / Losses / OB Turn 78

Apparently the High Command is not pleased even though the 8th Italian Army has achieved great success and sacked its Commander, I guess some people are just not happy no matter how good you do

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While I'm not complaining about casualty numbers just above 100,000 mark this week, the big win came with the nearly 600 AFV's destroyed.

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Also over 230 enemy planes destroyed, very pleasing since I am really not using my Air Force at all.

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Despite the big AFV losses the enemy still has over 4000,will keep working on driving that number down.

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AG North & Centre Turn 79

Not much happening up North again, but Intelligence reports coming in show more and more Guards units.

3 Heavy Rocket brigades reported at Gorky, More guards units close to the Front and a Guards Army HQ reported to be at Teikovo.

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On the central Front after destroying the trapped units things have gone quiet again with Soviets not pushing forward again and risking there Corps units being trapped.

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More Guards units arriving

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Army Group A & Don Turn 79

On this front a series of flanking moves has netted some big fish, the enemy just seems to throwing its forces at my lines only to have units cut off.

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Finally might get a chance to trap 1 or both of these Inf Corps in the Don sector.

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Army Group B Turn 79

Destroying the pockets and securing The Caspian Sea coastline is the order of the day.

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Its seems now after a brief attempt to halt the Italians the enemy has backed off.

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Losses / OB / Events Turn 79

This week the Russians took another beating, nearly 200.000 men at arms, almost 1000 AFV's and over 3300 pieces of Artillery.

One of best weeks in some time for destroying AFV's.

The Red Army has now suffered over 11 million in manpower losses.

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The enemy air force lost another 150 aircraft.

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The OB situation for both sides.

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Things did not go all well for us despite Russia almost defeated, Axis Forces in North Africa have been forced to retreat from Cyrenaica, still we cannot lose and our forces are close to taking all of the Caucasus, which will force the Allies
to halt there pursuit as they will be facing Army Group B coming through Iran.

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The OB situation for both sides.


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I'm impressed that you are worried enough to have one fort unit on the map now that the Western Allies are on the march

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The OB situation for both sides.


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I'm impressed that you are worried enough to have one fort unit on the map now that the Western Allies are on the march

To be honest I would not even have that fort there at Batumi if it was not for that dam Soviet Amphib HQ I cant get rid of the bloody thing.

I have read a few post on how to get rid of it, apparently you have to bomb it.

I have Fliegerfuhrer Sud there doing naval Ops but that does not seem to do anything to it.

Must have to bomb it via a Air directive to attack ground units, but really don't see the point of changing air directives just to attack one HQ.

Thought it might just sink ( obviously wishful thinking ) so I just placed a fort just in case some Soviet Marines don't miraculously invade

[Stamb]

it is getting 1 damage per turn just for staying in a water
you can not bomb it
you have to naval patrol over hexes with it

and it is just a matter of time when it will be gone forever

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it is getting 1 damage per turn just for staying in a water
you can not bomb it
you have to naval patrol over hexes with it

and it is just a matter of time when it will be gone forever

OK thanks for the heads up, lets hope my Naval Aviators are up to the job.

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it picks up losses for (a) being adjacent and (b) off any naval interdiction you have present. As Stamb says, in the end it will attrit away and I don't think the Soviets can replace it

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AG North & Centre Turn 80

With no real objectives left up North The Red Army has all but surrendered the territory to the Axis.

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Around the Vladimir sector the Russians launch several attacks which leads to 3rd Pz Armee counterattacking and trapping a Guards Rocket unit and another Red Army unit.

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Again in the 2nd Pz Armee sector The Russians attack and we counterattack this time trapping a number of enemy units including a Artillery Div.

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Army Group A Turn 80

2nd and 4th Armee's continue there drives towards the cities of Balashov and Samoylovka, capturing both and driving off the enemy.

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Fighting in and around Stalingrad continues with great success as South Stalingrad is taken and a Mech corps is encircled South of the city.

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17th Armee troops fight through the suburbs of Stalingrad.

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Army Group B Turn 80

In The Caucasus the Romanians manage to trap a second Mech Corps while 1st Pz Armee begins to eliminate the pocket around The Caspian Sea.

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On the Black Sea front the Italians keep pushing into the Georgia Region.

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Losses / leaders and OB turn 80

The Red Army suffered heavy losses both in manpower and AFV's again this turn however we also lost quite a few AFV's ourselves from the attacks on Stalingrad's defenders.

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Once again the enemy has lost 4 Army Commanders, it seems almost every week at least 1 Russian general dies.

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Manage to get the enemies troop numbers back down under 3 million.

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AG North & Centre Turn 81

One attack across the entire 18th Armee front, likewise 16th Armee sector.

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Things are different here on the Central front as Russian units throw themselves at my prepared positions which gets them repulsed with heavy losses or trapped.

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Decided to pull XII Korps out of the Moscow battle and put it back in the front line so I can get some of the Panzer Divs out of the line to refit.

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9th Armee can deal with the city's garrison.

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Army Group A Turn 81

North of Stalingrad all 3 Inf Armee's push the enemy relentlessly back.

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Around Stalingrad itself the enemy has stopped launching any assaults as it costs them dearly.

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There forces are scattered all over the place and they just don't have enough concentrated to really get any breakthroughs.

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Army Group B Turn 81

Seeing a increasing number of Tank / Mech Corps here in the South, luckily there spread out so I am able to trap them.

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Almost cleared the pocket along the sea front and can now finally take Makhachkala without causing the auto victory to kick in.

I gained a big boost in oil supplies with the city's capture.

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The few enemy units in the Georgia region seem hesitant to push so I was able to trap the lone intruder there also secured the last port along the coast as the last fortress surrendered.

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Army Group Don Turn 81

Just biding my time and waiting for a chance to capture either or both those Inf Corps in the mountains.

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Supply / Leader Turn 81

While I am not that concerned about the supply issue on the whole, the gap between what ground forces needs and what its actually getting is pretty wide.

Of course my Armee's are a long way from home.

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Two more Russian Generals killed including a Front Commander.

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Losses / OB turn 81

Soviet losses just keep piling up nearly 200,000 men, over 12 hundred AFV and over 3500 artillery pieces.

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Air losses we did great again losing only 1 planes to over 130 of the enemy.

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We are getting there manpower down quite well now.

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