Aditia vs. Darbymcd

[Aditia]

Crucial battle to create the pocket is the battle for Poltava. Overkill is applied and it was needed.

[Aditia]

The operation is a success:

[Aditia]

In front of Moscow I form a pocket at Vyazma and the units encircled in red are also toast. I also gobble some fuel and deny further fort building.

[Aditia]

Forming the Vyazma pocket required a lucky battle that I started with questionable odds:

[Aditia]

With Leningrad secured I start clearing the enemy off the Valdai.

Freed up troops are marching to Moscow. No loop in place yet to rail them.

[Aditia]

In the south my lackluster recon resulted in a bit of a surprise for me, a sortie on my weak flank:

[Aditia]

I judge I have to deal with it to avoid complications and cancel the assault on D-Town for now:

[Aditia]

View of the southern part of the front.

I slowly advance around Orel with the only objective of being ready for HQBU if the opportunity for gain is there.
FBD4 is moved from Leningrad to start the first loop between Vitebsk and Mogilev.

[Aditia]

Soviet losses are approaching 2.5M men

[Aditia]

Turn 12:

Around Moscow I make good progress with a lot of soviet units that can be written off, including the only strong position he had here west of Kaluga.

[Aditia]

In front of Kharkov I still at plenty of fuel, enough to do another encirclement:

[Aditia]

In the south, capturing D-Town remains a distant dream. The trade off is that I am removing his front sector at Kharkov.

[Aditia]

Below my mud goals in the North. A few turns later I find out that is probably retarded due to the supply situation there.

I was a bit too optimistic about the Finnish auto rail repair..

[Aditia]

In the air things are going quite decently. Have not received any crippling losses yet, only had to move 2 Ju-88 groups to the national reserve that were depleted.

[Aditia]

OOB:

Soviet looks a bit anaemic.. not sure though what it is supposed to look like at this time.

[Aditia]

And finally I decide the time is right for 2 HQBU around Orel. The northern objective is to cut the N-S rail lines out of Moscow. The southern objective is to create a pocket at Kursk or drive on Voronezh, I'll decide during the turn.

[Aditia]

More turns another time.

By the way, thus far I have only suffered 2 partisan attacks. In both instances the damage was already repaired, by I assume the RHG commands loaded with Construction Bn's.

[Peltonx]

ORIGINAL: Aditia

Question about supply/rail repair

The below screenshot is from Turn 15. My Question is, how many MP should units be from rail heads at maximum when mud hits?

The Finns in the North east had that location as their goal to anchor the front but they are in the void and it wont get much better in 2 turns. Should I pull them back?
Theoretically, if Sviritsa's port were repaired, would it have been worth to repair the rail encircled in red?

Your screwed basicly, but it doesn't really matter up north, same thing happens to everyone.

Once mud hits STOP moving, make sure all HQ/AB and as many panzers are on converted rail hexes to limit truck damage.

Infantry not moving does not cost much at all but the other units do.

[Peltonx]

Nice job on crippling his army, but he has slowed you down some.

You strategy looks allot like morveals, going for Moscow and basicly ignoring south.

[ericv]

i really like this aar. Good work. thanks