OKH Plan 1942 - Alpha AAR

[freeboy]

how rapidly can troops move by rail to reinforce breakthrough areas or trouble areas? ie can the ai pull in troops to an area to help? or can you?

[PyleDriver]

1st PzA advances with hard fighting...

[PyleDriver]

Heres a level 4 zoom of the front... I haven't completed the south, north or rear yet. I just thought I keep you up on events...

[ComradeP]

Any idea why the AI isn't attacking those single Panzer regiments next to Voronezh with the pile of Tank Corps right next to them?

[PyleDriver]

First all I hope they do, second there behind a river and third I have a good Corps commander that can fling any of these support units into the battle...The AI cheats in that it sees past the FoW and even into support unit locations...Heres a ss of the HQ, notice the 17th LW Flak...

[PyleDriver]

Heres the 17th LW Flak...

[PyleDriver]

And heres what that Regiment in question looks like...Hope that answers your question...

[DivePac88]

Hi PyleDriver... Could you please explain what this tanks symbol stands for?

Thanks Des

[PyleDriver]

Joel just answered that in the "New screenshot" post...

[Montbrun]

ORIGINAL: PyleDriver

Heres the 17th LW Flak...

Did the Luftwaffe Flak Regiments really deploy the 10.5cm Flak in the field? I thought thiose guns were relatively immobile, and primarily used in a static role?

[PyleDriver]

Brad and others PLEASE post general questions on Q&A, your like a commerical during a good movie. And then post a ss of an ss, please take them to Q&A. Questions like Comrade had were about this game, not general questions others could answer for me...Sorry for sounding rough, but it takes a hell of alot of effort to get in the flow of the game and post ss's, and then have interruptions that take me back to basics...I will post alot of neet stuff as we go, like stratigic rail movement, soooo please think about the question and where to post it...

Thanks
Jon

[thackaray]

ORIGINAL: PyleDriver

soooo please think about the question and where to post it...

Thanks
Jon

Do you have an app for that ? [:D]

[ComradeP]

First all I hope they do, second there behind a river and third I have a good Corps commander that can fling any of these support units into the battle...

OK, that makes sense. I was just a bit surprised that what seems to be 4 Tank Corps, or 4 Corps at the least didn't attack a single Panzer regiment.

Looking at the screenshots again, it seems the AI is parking some air groups/HQ's very close to the frontline and some in the rear. That doesn't make a lot of sense judged solely by the screenshots, but there's probably a good reason for it.

[PyleDriver]

Comrade you have to remember they just moved there on their turn 1 (not enough mp's to attack), they may just chose to attack on their turn 2...Lets see...I still hope they do, look closer at the defence I set up there, Voronezh has plus defence factors (murder), so if the even dislodge the regiment in question can they cross? How open will they be to a counter attack if they do?

[Montbrun]

ORIGINAL: PyleDriver

Brad and others PLEASE post general questions on Q&A, your like a commerical during a good movie. And then post a ss of an ss, please take them to Q&A. Questions like Comrade had were about this game, not general questions others could answer for me...Sorry for sounding rough, but it takes a hell of alot of effort to get in the flow of the game and post ss's, and then have interruptions that take me back to basics...I will post alot of neet stuff as we go, like stratigic rail movement, soooo please think about the question and where to post it...

Thanks
Jon

My apologies....

[jaw]

ORIGINAL: Brad Hunter


Did the Luftwaffe Flak Regiments really deploy the 10.5cm Flak in the field? I thought thiose guns were relatively immobile, and primarily used in a static role?

That does look weird; I'll check it out.

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: Brad Hunter

My apologies....

Me too, no more questions from me....

[ComradeP]

Comrade you have to remember they just moved there on their turn 1 (not enough mp's to attack), they may just chose to attack on their turn 2...Lets see...I still hope they do, look closer at the defence I set up there, Voronezh has plus defence factors (murder), so if the even dislodge the regiment in question can they cross? How open will they be to a counter attack if they do?

Some of the air groups/HQ's very close to the front didn't move in the first Soviet turn, or possibly they are different ones in the same position as the others.

Looking closer at the map, I see that you have a Panzer division and two regiments in between two rivers, so if those stack of tank corps could bump you out of the hex, you'd be attacking across a river too. On the other hand, those Tank Corps seem to be seriously understrength, as their stacks have an attack value of 3 and 5.

That does look weird; I'll check it out.

As the LW regiment is independent, and not part of a combat unit (and thus not always at the frontline), it could be using 105mm FlaK guns for semi-static security like at airfields, although it had about the same performance as the 88mm.

[SGHunt]

ComradeP - your knowledge and insight are a great boon to this forum.   Thanks. 

Imagine the defensive impact of more than 60 88's and 105's on a still fairly early war Soviet armoured assault - that's gotta be a lot of smoking T34's, especially as they will have to attack across the river!




I they do come at you PyleDriver, is there any way you capture the combat results as a SS for us?  I haven't seen one yet either here, or on Elmo's great AAR, and I'd love to know what detail (and FOW) you get after each battle.

Thanks for the report - it's great to get another so soon after Elmo's devastating blizzard wars!!

Stuart

[Joel Billings]

At this time in the war, a Soviet Tank Corps consists of just over 5600 men and 100 tanks. In July they will start to upgrade to 7800 men and 162 tanks. At the moment they aren't very powerful. Not to mention that their morale and experience is very low still. I was just reading the first of the Stalingrad trilogy that starts with a small story about the leader of the Soviet 5th Tank Army in July and how that Army with it's new Tank Corps was cut off and chewed up by two German Panzer Divisions.