Thanks, Marcinos, for following! I was missing your always interesting comments! When do we play again
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I agree with you in your analysis. The US Navy investment in subs was a strange decision. Also, those British destroyers should have been all updated with at least antisub tech. I was happy with all those Soviets units in Finland, Stalin needed them badly in Stalingrad!
Admiral Yamamoto sailed south from home waters with the IJN Combined Fleet. Nagumo’s Advance Task Force attacked one of the remaining USS subs. Our Intelligence Office in Tokyo reports that 3-4 US subs may still be operating the Pacific (4 sunk).
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In the AGC area of operations the Soviets have place their commanding General in an exposed position, leading his troops too forward from the town of Vyazma. General von Leeb targeted this HQ and attacked the army defending the hex south of Vyazma (by the way not fortified). Shortly afterwards General
Timoshenko was captured, later commenting to his interrogators: “the war is lost, to continue this struggle is pointless!”
. Undefended
Kaluga town was also captured.
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The Soviet entrenched at Bryansk are defending themselves courageously and their position is hampering our advance. To help deblock the situation General Rommel was transferred to AGC, arriving to Smolensk rail station, after spending a few weeks relaxing in the Bavarian Alps. The Fuhrer promised to send additional reinforcements for the advance towards Moscow. Now that the Soviet Central Front is leaderless Moscow should fall in short notice.
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General von Manstein opted to avoid a frontal attack towards Stalingrad. Instead, he cut the railroads supplying the big city, isolating the whole Stalingrad Front and most probably General Zhukov inside.
He attacked Kotelnikovo from the south damaging the defending infantry corps and the heavy tank.
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What would Stalin do? Will he order his troops to stay put and don’t move in order not to lose their entrenchment? (
Remember this game is about readiness and entrenchment) or will he order a general counterattack or a general withdrawal? Difficult decision to take. I think that I would leave the troops where they are, Stalingrad being an Industrial Center and providing good supply.
Importantly, 2 new AT units detrained at Morozovsk. The elite German Army left the Crimea due to low supply.
In AGS A area of operations von Bock captured Grozny, isolating the Soviet paras and opening the road towards Baku. We needed to rescue our out of supply paras near the Baku oilfields ASAP.
