Move-wise FitE

[larryfulkerson]

As you can see from the picture I moved the 71st Inf Div HQ unit to more fully share it's
arty tubes and assigned the three regiments to attack the Soviet MP unit. I also moved
the 14th Korps HQ unit to complete the surround on the Soviet unit there but thinking
about it more fully, I realized that that was unnecessary since I'm going to be moving a
combat unit into that hex later.

[larryfulkerson]

I moved one regiment of the 262nd Inf Div South to attack the Soviet div. The other two
regiments are assigned to attack the adjacent Soviet div at min. losses.

[larryfulkerson]

As you can see in the picture the 295th Inf Div came in handy in finishing a surround on
that stack of Soviet stuff. Also, I moved the 1st Panzer Army HQ unit. One of the
elements of the 295th had enough movement points left to take part in the first combat
round.

[larryfulkerson]

Next to move is the 296th Inf Div. I moved all the elements of this division a short
distance and assigned them to attack at min. losses.

[larryfulkerson]

Next mover is the 68th Inf Div. I assigned the three regiments to conduct a limited attack
at min. losses so as not to move into the potentially vacated hex after the attack. I have
plans to move them south later.

[larryfulkerson]

There's nothing to move with the 257th Inf Div. I just assign the three regiments to attack
at min. losses.

[larryfulkerson]

Next I move the 1st Geb Div. Only the HQ unit moved, to share it's arty tubes. The two
regiments are to conduct a limited attack on the Soviet unit(s) there and at min. losses.
Also I moved AGS by rail to this area.

[larryfulkerson]

The 101st JG Div HQ unit moves to share it's arty tubes and the two regiments are
assigned to attack the Soviet unit at min. losses.

[larryfulkerson]

I moved the 8th Italian Army HQ unit by rail from Italy to this area:

[larryfulkerson]

Now we come to the part of the moving of stuff where we move the air units. Before I
move the air units I need to know where the Soviet air units are so I can best position the
Axis aircraft. Below is a list of the Soviet air squadrons and where they are at the start of
the scenario.

[larryfulkerson]

I wanted to put together one of those aircraft range charts to show where the aircraft are
graphically and I thought you might like to know how I calculated the size of the circles
to show them. I counted the number of hexes on the map from one known place to
another. Then on the minimap I drew a line from that place to the other place. And then
I drew a box around the line and noted how big in pixels it was. It was a simple
calculation after that to get an approx. size of the circles for the aircraft ranges.

[larryfulkerson]

So then I constructed a series of boxes of the appropriate size and drew circles in them,
found the centers and voila....we have a set of circles of the approx. correct size to
construct a chart of where the soviet aircraft are. An Axis chart could be constructed
the same way. And of course you would erase the straight lines in the picture.

[larryfulkerson]

And here's the approx. positions of the Soviet aircraft at the start of the scenario:
[ I've left some out since it would tend to confuse the issue even more than it is already ]

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the list of the Axis aircraft at the start of the scenario:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's where the Axis aircraft are at the start of the scenario:

[larryfulkerson]

Okay, I moved all the fighters to better positions ( I'm not sure it would be helpful to go
through all of them one by one ) and set them to min. losses and put them on air
superiority missions and set all the bombers on min. losses and gave them airfield attack
orders:

[larryfulkerson]

Typically, just before I pull the trigger to launch the attacks, I go through the list of units
one more time just to make last minute adjustments, move the units that haven't moved
yet etc. One change I want to make is with the 620th Pioneer unit. Now that it has
conveyed units across the river he's free to do whatever else is in store. I used him as
in the picture below to finish the surround on the Soviet division.

[larryfulkerson]

Another move is for the 251st Inf Div. I moved the HQ unit to share it's arty tubes and
moved the regiments to finish the surround on two Soviet units.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the before and after and results of the attack on the northwesternmost edge of the
front lines:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of the attack on 73,106. The Soviet MP unit was forced backward.