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[Darojax]

I'll take the Air.

[Mamluke]

cool, good luck Darojax, just a note, the Axis seams intent on bombing the Yak 1 factories at Engels,etc. they can grow to 25 but are at 14 right now, they only need 1% damage to stop expansion. I've put two air bases covering the 2 city hexes, but it seams the Axis just does night bombing as well.
I recommend filling all those airbases with good Fighters, and set some of then to night mission, and/or Both night and air.
there is also PVO regiments, these seam better thanks to the 85mm anti air.

[Darojax]

Alright, I'll make note of this.

[Neogodhobo]

Alright guys I saw a bit the battlefield last night. I will leave you with these instructions, to fullfill until I come back.

The USSR will transform into a triumvirate. All three Marshals will discusss between themselves on what move to do is best.
But here are my orders :

Distribute Reinforcement as originally planned. I put a copy of those orders below :

Marshall Darojax, expect this much reinforcement arriving by the 25th September. :

-29 Rifle Division
-6 Cavalry Division
- 17th Moscow Rifle Division. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Rifle_Division )

Marshall Doctorking, expect this much reinforcement arriving by the 2nd October :

-23 Rifle Division
-Misc of Construction, Naval Brigades, Sappers, AT Artillery, Motorized and Cavalry divisions


Marshall Mamluke, expect this much reinforcement arriving by the 9th October:

-18 Rifle Division
-30 Tank Brigade



On the 16th October. Reinforcement will be shared between North and South.
On the 23rd and 30th October, Reinforcement will be sent in the Central Front.
On the 6th November, reinforcement will be given to the South
On the 13 November, reinforcement will be given to the North.

On the 20th, 27th and 4th December, ALL reinforcement will be given to the Kursk Front. The Kursk front will be somewhat of a Active/Sleeping Commando Army that can be activated whenever I decide. This is a new Front I want to open, with, POSSIBLY, a new human commander. If not by a new commander, It will be taken by Thedoctorking in sleeping time and taken by either Central or Southern Commander during Active time. During Active time, the Kursk Front will have for objective to execute pincer movement where an opportunity arise, either going North towards Smolensk, or South towards Kiev. During Sleeping time, it will try to go and capture back Chernigov and Gomel.

This is the reinforcement you will all receive. ALL Moscow Rifle divisions will be sent to Moscow Front. All Leningrad Rifle Division will be sent to Leningrad Front.
Keep in mind Marshalls, that those forces are going to be the one you will have at your disposition for the Winter Offensive I am currently planning. The date of the attack has not yet been decided but during mid October, I will communicate with each of you, the objectives I want to achieve, and you will need to draw me a strategic plan. I may change some details , but if accepted, you will all be expected to achieve those objectives so be realist in your execution. Each Front will need to be in pair with each other, we cant have the central front advancing 50 miles, while North and South advance 10 miles.

This is pretty much it, do as you will in order to keep the defensive line stable until I come back basically.
Sorry for the hasty leave, but I cant hang out on the computer from now on.

Good Luck ( My turn has not been done, you guys can elect someone to do supreme commander turn, wich basically consist of assigning reinforcement and data collection ( wich you dont have to do in my absence ) Also in position to change leadership as will.

Il be back.

[Neogodhobo]

PS: Dont open the Kursk front without me, this is something that needs a bit more planning right now.

[Darojax]

Alright I will do the Supreme Commander turn as well.

[Darojax]

Doctorking, where do you want your reinforcements to arrive?

Mamluke, where do you want your reinforcements to arrive?

[Darojax]

OK then, never mind.

Most reinforcements have been sent to the South sector, not so many to the North.

Commander South, all units and reinforcements south of city Penza (Y61) and west of Kuybyshev (X155) is under your command.

All commanders feel free to use remaining strategic movement points to move your units currently loaded on rail to disembark where you deem best.

Air turn commencing.

[Darojax]

Alright, so to clarify, each Ground Commander is responsible for their own Tactical Air Operations and moving the Air Bases that belong to each Front. However, do not move Long Range Air Command bases, these are directly under the Air Marshal. Here are some pointers from one of our previous Air Marshals:

* If you ever attack anything, bomb the hex twice beforehand.

* Keep airbases around 5 hexes behind your front line, unless it is clear that that area will be overrun.

* Bunch your airbases up as close to each other as possible; mutual fighter protection.

* At the end of your turn, bomb all tank/mech units twice, and any threatening infantry units twice as much as possible.

* For bombing missions, don't do the auto mode: Hold shift, then right click the hex you want to bomb. That way you can choose which air units will take part. More than 200 bombers per attack is not that efficient. Il-2 are better against mech/tank units. Level bombers better against infantry.

* If it is likely that the Germans will use air supply in an area, make sure that bases with fighters with miles left in them are close by as much as possible.

* Only aircraft attached to a front can fly ground support for that front. So, within your command, make sure that each front has some air units, and that they are within range.

* You are free to transfer air regiments within and between the Bases and Fronts under your command to your liking. Try to maintain the following Air Base organization when possible:

IAD - Fighters AB
BAD - Bombers AB
DBAD - Long Range Bombers AB
TBAB - Heavy Bombers AB
SAD/VVS/PVO - Mixed (All types of AC) AB
VVS-ChF - Mixed Black Sea AB
VVS-KBF - Mixed Baltic AB


At the time of writing this report we have 2541 Fighters, 721 Tactical Bombers, 1955 Level Bombers, 166 Recon and 95 Transport aircraft, 5478 in total.

Current distribution of SAF Regiments is listed below. Feel free to come with requests, suggestions etc.





Air turn now done, will proceed with Center.

[Mamluke]

Roger comrade Darojax.

Comrade, I would like to recommend that the city of Murom be fortified, it will be hard to build a fort with mud but at least over a level 1 fort would be nice, just in case.

they have so much territory, I fear an attack on Gorky could be a very real possibility! however, perhaps an attack at Rostov to the Don river would be easier for then and make it easier to contain the Southern front.

Also another advise:
special attention should be given to the fully man rifle divisions that will arrive during the mud and snow. these are high morale, experience units, their placement for an offensive will be crucial, those of note in the next 3-4 turns are:

65th rifle division.
413th rifle
415th rifle
239th rifle
372nd rifle
17th Mountain cavlary division.

for turn 22, 6 great rifle division will arrive! but this will be way up in snow.
366th rifle
382nd ridle
390th rifle
385th rifle
387th rifle
391st rifle

and of course all naval rifle brigades, with high exp and morale, a very efficient use of command points.

personally, I use a special color to distinct then, dark red. this makes then much easier to spot.

[Darojax]

Roger that Comrade Mamluke.

Center turn done.

Looks like the Germans are digging in across the entire front. 40 miles east of Moscow they are building a proper fortified defensive line.


P.S. Make sure when you do air attacks that they have fighter escort. This turn I made one false move with an unescorted bombing mission, result = disaster.

[Darojax]

Also, I'm not sure what Comrade Supreme Commander had in mind for an offensive. Hopefully he will be back before next turn. : )

[thedoctorking]

OK, all done. I'm seeing very little German strength in front of me. How about an offensive down the Volga towards Vishny Volochek? Maybe I can turn the flank of their pretty line in front of Moscow.

[Mamluke]

South Done

I Placed my units best prepared to face off a possible attack at Rostov, with mobility of snow, the risk is moderate.

Comrade dortorking, It looks promising, but I advise that an offensive south words should be opportunistic in nature. only attack for Victories, not territory. Came winter your supply situation will be bad, with it already being 19 Mp's in summer, and with out a functioning rail east of the Volga.
Besides, you can't lower your guard against the Fins just yet, any big gains in territory you make south words will have to be abandon came summer unless decently reinforced, we can't risk such an encirclement until we confirm where the Axis placed all of its mobile assets.

Comrade Darojax, perhaps its best if you place the 2 airfields at Engels,etc under your personal Long Range Air Command, so to avoid confusion, Industry air defense is your responsibility correct?
BTW, there is a naval rifle brigade just East of Penza, is that for me? can I have that one?

EDIT: ok will move the Naval brigade real quick

[Darojax]

Comrade Mamluke,

Yes go ahead you can take the NvInf Brigade. Regarding changing the Airbase HQ, not sure it is possible, we'll see.

[Mamluke]

Cavalry corps training program.


Supreme commander, Comrades, we need to start preparing the Cavalry for the winter offensive, the Cavalry corps will be our most reliable mobile unit for this winter offensive
and for all of 1942. as the regular tank corps that will be available in April 1942 will be kind of crap for a tank division standard, and pathetic if compared to a German panzer division.

What I recommend, is effective immediately during the mud, we must place all Cavalry formations far away from the front line, replaced by rifle brigades if possible,
and set in refit until they can form in to Cavalry corps in December, preferably, we should place the divisions in the Center Area, south of of the Oka river so they can be distributed easily to any front.
It's imperative that we do this as soon as possible, there seams to be a hard coded rule in the production system: only 200 cavalry squads can be created per logistic phase, for exe:
During the refit phase, even if all the cavalry divisions are on refit and they all demand cavalry squads, exactly 200 cavalry squads will be created, and then during the regular replacement phase, again only 200 cavalry squads can be created.

I noticed this consistently during my other Server game.

In other words, failure to prepare our cav formations could mean we won't have enough Cav Corps to spreed out in vital sectors during the important December month, thus our offensive will lack the needed punch.
with these good formations we can even perform successful hasty attacks on German infantry regiments!

paired with this, we can count on a special Support unit for this winter occasion, the sky battalion, if you check the manual, it states that this small SU can gain up to 3 times its original CV in battle during blizzard!
excellent to attach to the cav corps, what makes it a great efficient SU is also the fact is light on manpower and armaments, just less then 700 men total with few mortars.
the only downside is that it's only possible to recruit it in November, thus only 3 effective turns of training.
this should be an Ideal Cav corps:



Notice how it is quite depleted with relatively few Cavalry squads yet it still has 10 CV!

[Darojax]

Our turn has been submitted!

[Neogodhobo]

Alright Im back. I still need to setup the game and dropbox, and the internet connection is not great here. and yadiyadi yada, but I should be up to standard in the next few days.

[Neogodhobo]

hhm, by reading the forum I see that reinforcement schedule was not respected [:-] . That is troublesome..... It was the only order I wanted you guys to follow..... but whatever.

[Mamluke]

Supreme leader, right now in turn 18, can we start to implement the Cavalry corps training program?