ORIGINAL: MrQuiet
Russia China Winter 42
I found it quite lucky that the germans were able to take out a defending fighter and tac with flack support in Lenningrad durring first Russian winter with only 1 Stuka squadran thus allowing him to gain combined arms. Stuka scored auto hit in air to air against my fighter durring first Russian winter. I doubt I could have pulled that off and thus would not have even tried. Luck does indeed seem to be running very high on the German side this game, but for how long?
Well I did pull off that one and get a bit less than 50% to take Leningrad and failed. The things that make me try this is the risk to loose a TAC against the chance to get combined arms. Without that I would have had to pull out of Finland or you would have slaughtered my troops there as you did in Kiev and pulling out of Finland means loosing Norway and being in defense on the Eastern Front. To avoid this loosing a TAC is cheap. [:(] If only I would have thought of trying this one last turn during Fall and I might have taken Leningrad out.
(For info I still had some HVY bombers at distance to finish the job in case).With the Wallies knocking at my Western door and you doing this kind of attack againts Kiev it won't be long before the 3rd Reich is fully on the defense.
Not taking Leningrad and Kharkov are the nails on my coffin that the lack of UBoats is creating on the West.
Now the momentum for Germany is gone, it's only Winter 1942 and Russia as you said can take those losses. I think it's the beginning of the end for the Axis.
Strange game.
After initial loss of England I tought that Axis will bring it home soon...[&o] But MrQuiet and Avatar47 are one of the teams that might face Dahnyul and me in the finals!
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