Directive 21 ( mod of FITE )

[larryfulkerson]

And the next sector to the south:

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And the next sector to the south:

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And the southernmost sector

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I lost the 111th Inf regiment in turn 5 ( it evaporated in combat ) and now in turn 6 I find out that it's reconstituting in turn 13. That's 8 turns to reconstitute which equals a month in game time. I'm wondering if one month was chosen for a specific reason or was it arbitrary ( chosen out of thin air ).

Steve, Rick, one of you guys know the answer?

[desert]

I lost the 111th Inf regiment in turn 5 ( it evaporated in combat ) and now in turn 6 I find out that it's reconstituting in turn 13. That's 8 turns to reconstitute which equals a month in game time. I'm wondering if one month was chosen for a specific reason or was it arbitrary ( chosen out of thin air ).

Steve, Rick, one of you guys know the answer?

 
Reconstitutions are anywhere from 1-4 weeks after evaporation. I think the exact amount of time it takes is random though.

[larryfulkerson]

I found out by rude example that the Finnish units don't reconstitute. This picture says Axis and not Finn but it is a Finnish unit, believe me.



EDIT: according to Rick ( one of the designers of D21 ) they actually DO reconstitute, it's just that it takes a turn or two to register on the game engine and get the unit scheduled to do so.

Thanks Rick dude.

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I found out by rude example that the Finnish units don't reconstitute. This picture says Axis and not Finn but it is a Finnish unit, believe me.

The Finnish units will reconstitute. They just do not reconstitute as fast and it may take a turn or two before that unit gets scheduled.

[larryfulkerson]

Turn 6 is over. I got an early turn ending after the first round and so didn't make as much progress as I had hoped I would make. Anyway, I found something interesting that Elmer does.

As I was making my cross-river assaults just south of Riga there was an incident where I left one of MY riverbank hexes open and in his turn to move Elmer moved some of his river roadblock units into MY territory and right into my killing fields. No human opponent would do that I'm pretty sure. But Elmer has orders from Stalin and they do or die in Elmer world. You might keep this in mind when you need to destroy some units easily.

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Here's the losses for both sides as of the end of turn 6: Note that the Axis has lost about as many infantry squads as the Soviets. This must be due to the combats that took place on the Stalin Line way down south. There would have been many many more but Elmer didn't park very much arty on the Stalin Line thank goodness. Note that the rate of production of Soviet units is less for every category since I captured Minsk.

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Here's the moves minimovie from turns 2 throu 6

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And now starts a series of close-ups on the moves starting at the northernmost sector:

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And the next sector south

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And the third sector down

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And the next sector going south

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And the last and southernmost sector

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I've gotten myself into big trouble. Either that or I've made a breakthrough of sorts. Here's the situation on the Murmansk front. I divided a couple of my regiments and moved them through the Soviet lines and they will either get cut off and killed or maybe I can displace that arty unit and attack the Soviet division and make it move south and or east and either way I gain that hex. Maybe.

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Here's the situation just south of Murmansk. I've run into a substantial roadblock and I've been doing some probing with my tank unit and not getting anywhere. I hate to attack that stack with my infantry since he has some arty entrenched in that hex and attacking it means lots of losses. I'm thinking I should rest my tank unit and give it a go again. Maybe.

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It seems that Elmer has what is left of his air force up and running and taking horrendous losses. Several times his longest range bombers have bombarded my ground units taking huge losses and no significant Axis losses. And when his interdiction aircraft do their thing my fighters shoot down large groups of the attackers. The air war is ongoing and is going well for the Axis so far. The Soviet production rates are higher than the Axis however and eventually, perhaps around T15 or so, the Soviets will have more fighters than the Axis and the air war will slowly turn sour for the Axis.

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Here's the situation just north of Leningrad. Elmer has mishandled his units, left a hole open and I took advantage of it and drove south and then east and got behind the Soviet defenders and it looks like I might be able to make some headway with the Finnish troops. We'll see.

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Here's a zoomed-out look at the Kiev area. I have run my recon scout to the east so far I found the Kiev defenders. It has the look of a fortress and I'm thinking I'm going to have to attack this place from both sides at the same time to lessen the losses.

Also, you can see the scattered and fragmented look of my armies. We've been fighting for so long some of my units are getting into the single digit range on their supply and I have to drop them off to refuel by the side of the road. I'm thinking that if I keep my units in good supply my odds increase since the Soviet units generally don't rest after reconstitution but instead are thrust onto the battlefield as-is and as a result they will start showing up on the front lines with cherry-red health and will be easier to kill.