Empire101 (Axis) vs sveint (Sov) - Soviet PoV

[sveint]

Western Front

[sveint]

Southern front

[cpt flam]

as opposed to you I prefer to leave a lone division in contact (prefer with a lot of unit)
of course it will not make great but attrition losses will grow
allways better to erode them [:D]

[sveint]

I think avoiding routs and encirclements trumps attrition for the first 17 turns. As soon as mud hits though I will stay in permanent contact.

[Reedster]

Nice work sveint... I recently started my first GC 41 as Axis so I'm following your AAR as a rough gauge to my own progress.

A teeny request though, could you please put the date after the turn number? For example, turn 6 (Jul 24th) - I'm rather date obsessive [:D]

[sveint]

Turn 7, 7/31/1941

Not much happening. We make a few failed counterattacks in the southwestern front. In the far south a panzer division crosses the river.

Leningrad front

[sveint]

Western Front

[sveint]

Southwestern front

[sveint]

Southern front

[sveint]

Turn 8

Report will be brief as I played a bit fast. We were worried there was a bug not letting the Axis fly their aircraft, but apparently the bug was in OKH which had set required to fly to 100%. No screenshot from the south unfortunately: the panzers are advancing across the river in the very far south.

Leningrad

[sveint]

Western Front

[sveint]

Turn 9, 8/14/1941

Quite a bad week. Many units rout, a couple even shatter. Industry still not fully evacuated from Bryansk.

Leningrad font

[sveint]

Western front

[sveint]

Southwestern front

The river line will not hold much longer. Fortunately there is absolutely no threat of encirclement from the north.

[sveint]

Southern front

The Axis will capture the Crimea before mud comes. Not sure why they'd want it though.

[Klydon]

Careful with the Leningrad area. He could be going for a right hook to cut the ports and trap a lot of troops. You are not very well dug in to resist such a move.

Otherwise, the situation looks fairly good for you for the most part.

[sveint]

I expect to evacuate most of Leningrad within a turn or two. I'd rather lose the city than have a large number of troops surrounded.

[sveint]

Turn 10, 8/21/41

All fronts and armies now have at least decent leaders. Army support structure is mostly complete, a minimum of 2 artillery, 1 howitser, 1 AA battalion, 1 sapper battalion per army.

Northern front

Germans slowly advance. I don't think there is any chance of any major pockets. A small garrison will be left in Leningrad.

[sveint]

Northwest front

Quite weak defense, but there is nothing but forests to defend. More troops will be available from Leningrad soon.

[sveint]

Reserve front

Strong entrenchments and fresh troops make it unlikely that the Germans will be able to break through to the north of Moscow.