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[Mamluke]

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

ORIGINAL: Mamluke

thedoctorking, you have not redeployed your cavalry to the rail way.

after I finish the South, can you do it then?

Alright guys, well were waiting on South and North.

what do you mean? the South is done!
all Cav that could move is moved, just the north is left, would be great to get those cav on the rails, so it can be taken care of next turn.

[Neogodhobo]

Alright, just because you wrote " After I finish the South" so I thought you had some last minute details to take care of.

If all there is to do in the North is to get those cav on rails, could someone (anyone ) do it ? for the sake of speeding things up.

[Mamluke]

ok, I redeployed the cav in the North, final turn is "north mini"

[Neogodhobo]

rgr that thanks. Il do my turn today.

[Neogodhobo]

Alright guys, sorry my internet was out since the 18th. I see that not much has happened since anyway so, whatever.

The turn is ours, Il do my turn right now while the internet is working.

[Neogodhobo]

Has anyone produce any offensive plans , or strategy since ? Central Front Strategy has been spoken in private messages, but I havent received anything from the other front commanders.

[Neogodhobo]

Reinforcement : around 20 infantry division and 2 tanks brigade arrived by trains near Vologda, Cherepovets and in the vicinity of the 23rd army ( Leningrad Front ) are ALL destined for the Northern Front.

Around 18 Infantry Division, 2 AT brigades and 3 tank brigades arrived by trains near and around Stalingrad. They are all destined for the Southern Front.

Nothing for the Central Front as of now.

[Neogodhobo]

Das Reich Motorised Div. is low on supplies. All divisions around them has received supplies by air. Maybe a good opportunity to try to break the encirclement or at least open a door for our troops. We have a breach in the pocket where 85th Rifle division has surrendered against 267th Infantry Division.

The Germans seems to have retreated a bit around Ivanovo and Vladimir in the Central Front. I dont mean to tell the front commanders how to conduct their operations, but maybe take the ground they abandoned ? Just a suggestion, nothing more.

everything static in the North. Not much has changed there.


Dont forget to write up your offensive plans and to send them to me by PM.

So far, we have Operation Sleeping Snake, part of the Winter campaign of 41-42 that has been talked about with the Central Front.

[thedoctorking]

All those divisions you've sent up to my front, can I build them up to some useful level? If so, what?

My thoughts for offensive operations over the snow turns is to press forward generally southwards from Northwest Front's AO, with ultimate goal being the Rzhev area and the upper Volga. I might make some attacks in Leningrad Front's AO to put some punishment on the Finns before the blizzard sets in and they get buffed. I'd like to build some ski units, at least one per army. And if I had some cavalry divisions, I'd turn them into corps and assign ski battalions as well.

[Darojax]

I only just now realized it's my turn. Will do it tomorrow (it's getting very late at my location).

[Darojax]

Someone air dropped supplies to the partisans before the Air Marshal turn. Whoever that was, are you interested in taking over the Air Marshal job? Let me know.

[Darojax]

Air + Center done

[Mamluke]

ORIGINAL: Darojax

Someone air dropped supplies to the partisans before the Air Marshal turn. Whoever that was, are you interested in taking over the Air Marshal job? Let me know.

just to let you know, air supply partisans is automatic, done by the computer.

[Darojax]

Woha? Okay, that's new to me. Thanks. Sorry if anyone of you felt accused. : )

[thedoctorking]

Wait, am I going next, or is South before me?

I'll do my turn this evening if it is my turn.

[Darojax]

Turn is always:

1st : Logistics
2nd : SupCom
3rd : Air
4th : Center
5th : North
6th : South
7th : Air Final
8th : SupCom Final

Yes, it's your turn.

[thedoctorking]

I've got two good commanders in Leningrad Front, Eremenko and Rokossovsky. They are sitting near a bunch of new divisions that STAVKA railed in for me. I have assigned some of those divisions to Eremenko (8th Army) and set them to 70% TOE and Refit, and also gave him some SU. I didn't do anything with the guys near Rokossovsky since some time ago there was some talk of reassigning him to another front. If he can have those divisions, then in the final supreme command phase, could you assign them? And if you have some leftover AP at the end, build both of those guys some ski units and Rokossovsky a few more sappers.

Since they are both in Leningrad Front, perhaps I could do some offensive action more or less due west from my position along the Cherepovets/Tikhvin/Volkhov rail line. Though the enemy's position along the Yaroslavl/Blogoe/Valdai line looks very weak as well. If we push west of the Rybinsk Reservoir, I don't see the enemy trying to hold onto Yaroslavl over the winter.

[Neogodhobo]

Do what you want with Rokossovsky, you can assign them to him if you want. As for the ski division. Yes go ahead.

As for the TOE, Mamluke is taking care of it so ask him and his answer will be backed by me.
My internet should be working good in the weeks coming at top so Im going to be more present soon.

[Mamluke]

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

Do what you want with Rokossovsky, you can assign them to him if you want. As for the ski division. Yes go ahead.

As for the TOE, Mamluke is taking care of it so ask him and his answer will be backed by me.
My internet should be working good in the weeks coming at top so Im going to be more present soon.

I've given my reply to TheDoctorking.

BTW supreme leader, there is no such ski division, only battalions, in September of 1942 we can build ski brigades with a weaker ToE then rifle brigades but with 2 and 3 times the CV during winter, but that is a story for another time.

Speaking of ski battalions, we may start training then November so next turn! I ask that you let me take care of all of it!
I'm planing to train 80 battalions, we can rely on then to fill out the Cav corps and fill up any army that lacks SU.
this way, we can avoid building expensive arty SU in the near future.

To train 80 ski battalions, we need 80 AP by turn 20, So I ask supreme leader and all the team to not wast any AP until those are created.

It's important to train then in mass, we will only have 3 turns to train then before December, I will train then all in the Urals Military district HQ, once they reach 25 experience I will hand pick those to send to Stavka so they can be distributed to the Cav and armies. Cav takes priority.
if you doubt the ski battalions check out post #18 of my AAR for a summary of the ski bat.
tm.asp?m=4464877

I made Stavka and Urals Locked to make sure they store the Support units, PLEASE DON'T CHANGE THIS!!

We have 48 active cavalry divisions for turn 19, meaning will well get 16 cavalry corps, with 1 more corps by turn 22.

We still require about 1000 cavalry squads to fill our divisions, with 400 cavalry squads per turn, all 17 cav corps will be ready by Blizzard!

We will also need 17 out of the total 36 sapper regiments for the Cavalry corps, I will also take care of this.

By December, the Supreme leader will have the grand honor and responsibility to decide which Front gets which Cav corps, decide carefully, only 17 for the entire winter and they can make a big Impact.

Final note:
only one last hurdle, there are 2 ways to decide what divisions to chose to build corps, based only on quality, or based on the numbers of wins/losses.
to explain the last point: once the corps is created, it takes the highest number of loses and the highest number of wins, for each 3 cav divisions,
this is important, because what gets Guards status is based on wins/loss rations, for example, if one corps has 5 loses, it might need 13 or higher wins just to get Guards status.

I will try to create at least some best quality corps with some wins or 0 loses. these ones will be specially marked.

[Mamluke]

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

Das Reich Motorised Div. is low on supplies. All divisions around them has received supplies by air. Maybe a good opportunity to try to break the encirclement or at least open a door for our troops. We have a breach in the pocket where 85th Rifle division has surrendered against 267th Infantry Division.

The Germans seems to have retreated a bit around Ivanovo and Vladimir in the Central Front. I dont mean to tell the front commanders how to conduct their operations, but maybe take the ground they abandoned ? Just a suggestion, nothing more.

everything static in the North. Not much has changed there.


Dont forget to write up your offensive plans and to send them to me by PM.

So far, we have Operation Sleeping Snake, part of the Winter campaign of 41-42 that has been talked about with the Central Front.

sorry to bear the bad news, but the Voronezh pocket is certainly dead, it will suffer 4 turns of Isolation, (not even counting the isolation it suffer in the past) simply put, that much time in isolation degrades the unit massively.
once snow is on, a single hasty will kill almost all units there.

with several enemy hexes between my forces and the pocket, too much space to cover, the only reserves I have left are still raw recruits, and I need my best units to secure Rostov during the snow.
just not possible boss, with mobile units getting fuel by air and just setting still, they will have MPs, If I try to pull a rescue operation, I would just give then more units to devour.


I will give my plans by 7 of may, tomorow sir.

SOuth done.