Vanilla FITE Kevin VS Larry

[larryfulkerson]

Kevin made some pretty BOLD moves. He took advantage of the frozen-over river and advanced into my sparce front line and forced me to scramble to try to salvage the situation. I'm hoping I can contain his thrust but it's iffy still even as we speak. He's got some tank units in that spearhead and as you all know those are hard to contain with infantry. This game just got a lot more interesting.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay, static front lines is over. Kevin has started his '41 Winter Offensive. It's turn 50 and I thought I'd post the Axis losses so we can compare them with the losses on turn 60 to see how much the offensive cost the Axis. Now that the front lines are in motion again I'll be posting more stuff for you to be able to keep up with our game.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay it's now turn 51 and Kevin has achieved a magnificant breakthrough in more than one place.  My lack of reserves is starting to wear thin on my habit of taking risks.  I'm really really going to have to scrape up some reserves some how to prevent this from occuring in the future.  D'oh.

[larryfulkerson]

And what's making it worse is that he's got air supremacy.

[toawfan]

Now that is one amazing front for both sides. I am watching a heavyweight fight that has gone 51 rounds and they're both standing. What is the score in victory points and friendly v. enemy losses?

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie.....it's now turn 52 and Kevin is winning on style points now. Plus he's still got air superiority and the '41 Winter Offensive has only just started on turn 50. Doesn't bode well for the future of the Axis army.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie.........for an update.....

I managed to plug the holes in my front line for a few turns, but now it's turn 54 and Kevin has been hammering on my dudes constantly and they're starting to give way in several places. Here's one place that's about the worst I guess. You can see how the front line bends back and back and now it's starting to tear holes in several places. I don't think I can mend this gap any longer. Kevin is on his way to my rear areas pretty soon now.

[larryfulkerson]

I was going through the order of battle just now moving my units in turn 54 and I ran across an ME-109 squadron with 100% proficiency. You can't get much better than that.

[larryfulkerson]

Somebody check out this link and tell me if you can download anything from this web page.  It's supposed to be my shared folder with a bunch of AARs in it and stuff like that.  It would be really cool if I just posted a link to the shared folder and you guys could download anything you wanted to from it. 

http://www.mediafire.com/?prnjp869ugek5

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines as of the beginning of turn 56. You can see the places where Kevin has broken through my lines and is trying to close the pincers of an envelopment so he can isolate, surround, and destroy a bunch of my stuff.

[1_Lzard]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Somebody check out this link and tell me if you can download anything from this web page.  It's supposed to be my shared folder with a bunch of AARs in it and stuff like that.  It would be really cool if I just posted a link to the shared folder and you guys could download anything you wanted to from it. 

http://www.mediafire.com/?prnjp869ugek5

Works for me!

Kurt

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: 1_Lzard
http://www.mediafire.com/?prnjp869ugek5

Works for me!

Great. Now I'll just post stuff to the shared folder and you guys can just download anything you want from there. I'll tell you when I add
something there so you won't have any "wasted trips" to the web page. Cool.

[larryfulkerson]

It's now turn 57 and I've been desperately trying to plug the holes in my lines and Kevin has been breaking open my plugs. Here's a section of the front line near Kiev where for the last four turns in a row I've had to move people in there to "build another front line" around the broken open place. And I've not finished yet it seems. I'm thinking Kevin is breaking through my lines in slow motion so far. I'm going to have to pull a bunch of people back so that they don't get surrounded and destroyed. Good thing this Soviet Offensive is almost over. I can't hang in there much longer this way.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a look at the HRS losses on the Axis side. I'm down to 36K HRS squads and almost none on hand anymore. This is reflected in the size of my units now. A significant portion of the Axis units are 1/2 strength and most all of them are tired and worn out. I'm pretty sure Kevin is feeling the pressure too. In the playback for turn 57 I saw at least two instances of Soviet units evaporating during the attack. So he's probably had some high losses too. This part of the game is brutal to both sides.

[larryfulkerson]

The Rumanian Air Force has been gutted and cleaned.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's turns 53 through 57 and you can just see how the front line is moving to the west near Kiev.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines near Kiev as of turn 58. Kevin has made another breakthrough and this time I'm pretty sure I can't plug the hole. This may be the beginning of the end for the Axis forces in this area. Kevin simply has to surround and destroy all these tired units and there will be a gigantic, humongous hole in the Axis front lines. This Soviet offensive is almost over but Kevin has done enough damage already to have this offensive be called a success. The next few turns will be sort of interesting for those of us who are following along with this game.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how the air war is going

[Panama]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Here's how the air war is going

[:D] That's just not right.

[1_Lzard]

Looks like your NuB is doing well for himself, eh? How many games would this be for him?

I'd assume from this that this isn't the first wargame he's played! [:D]

Have you uploaded the .sals for this? Not findin' 'em!