1.04 The Wolf and the Bear (no Gids)

[Tarhunnas]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

I have just encouraged Gids to continue fighting and never ever give up! [:)]

I am very much looking forward this continued grand campaign! [:)]

That's great! Thanks for the support!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Tarhunnas

ORIGINAL: Apollo11


I have just encouraged Gids to continue fighting and never ever give up! [:)]

I am very much looking forward this continued grand campaign! [:)]

That's great! Thanks for the support!

Thank you - it was my pleasure - we at the developer's forum love to see such dedicated and long term grand campaigns (and diverse as well [:D]) - this helps us seeing many aspects of the game that, otherwise, might be left "in the shadows"!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Tarhunnas]

Turn 97. April 22 1943.

Nothing dramatic happning. Continuing slow reduction of the pockets at the Crimea. This is an overview of the front from Moscow and south.

[Tarhunnas]

Turn 98. April 28 1943.

Not much happening to show on the map. However, a couple of new trends have been observed:

* An airfield bombing campaign by the Reds. They lose more aircraft than we, so not really worrying so far.

* Soviet ground attacks suddenly seem to cause slightly more casualties than the suffer themselves. This is worrying! Previously, they always took more casualties than the defenders, even when they caused a retreat.

[ComradeP]

Tarhunnas, could you post a screenshot showing the area from Tula to Kalinin or so in zoom level 3 or 4?

[Tarhunnas]

ORIGINAL: ComradeP

Tarhunnas, could you post a screenshot showing the area from Tula to Kalinin or so in zoom level 3 or 4?

Your wish is my command [;)].

This is from the beginning of turn 98, forgot to save during the turn.

[ComradeP]

That looks better than I expected, there are still a fair number of reasonable to good CV units there and with those fort levels the Soviets are not likely to start pushing them around in any significant way.

[Balou]

Is frontline attrition and/or loss of morale compensated by those fort levels? April isn't going to be blizzard, but many experts advocate to rotate out some units during winter.

[Tarhunnas]

ORIGINAL: Balou

Is frontline attrition and/or loss of morale compensated by those fort levels? April isn't going to be blizzard, but many experts advocate to rotate out some units during winter.

This is the second winter, so blizzard effects doesn't apply. Rotating in and out of line now and then is necessary however, as attrition will slowly reduce the CV of units in the frontline.

[Tarhunnas]

Turn 99. May 6 1943.

Reducing the pockets at the Crimea is going veeeery slow. The units at the coast have beachhead supply, and with the mud, I cannot dislodge them. I had hoped to send 2d Panzer Army north again, but that will take at least another turn.

Sevastopol has been thuroughly sacked, but now the advance units are returning to the isthmuses. I am not putting units at risk in the Crimea.

[Tarhunnas]

At the Tambov front, we are likewise pulling back, after razing Penza to the ground. Soviet attacks have been growing stronger, and the Penza bulge began to feel like more of a liability than an asset.

[Tarhunnas]

OOB turn 99. The Soviet CVs are rising all over. Soviet numbers have risen by 700,000 men and 20,000 guns since January, despite them taking heavy losses. I guess that makes a difference.

[Tarhunnas]

Turn 100! Celebration!

May 13 1943.

A Soviet armor breakthrough is contained near Tambov. To gather the forces for that, the withdrawal of the front to the east has been accelerated.

Note the customary mid may snowfall.

[Tarhunnas]

Losses turn 100.

Losses from last turn is somewhat inflated from a surrender of a surrounded stack at the Crimea.

[ComradeP]

Note the customary mid may snowfall.

10 or 11 on the random weather roll, you're mostly fighting in the North Soviet zone currently.

[Q-Ball]

ORIGINAL: ComradeP

Note the customary mid may snowfall.

10 or 11 on the random weather roll, you're mostly fighting in the North Soviet zone currently.

It shouldn't snow there in May though regardless. By Snow, I don't mean 1/2 inch a melt-off, but sustained Snow, which is what I think a "Snow" turn is.

If it "Snowed" in May, you wouldn't be able to grow wheat, which of course you can in Russia.

Even a light snow would prevent Corn cultivation, which you can in most of the Ukraine

Random weather, IMO, is too random.

[unikey]

+1

gone back to non random its that bad

[Tarhunnas]

Turn 101. Mud all over. The Soviets naturally freed their encircled tank corps, with the help of the 1-1 rule. Otherwise, not much happening.

[Tarhunnas]

Turn 102. May 27 1943. Mostly mud.

2d Panzer army is regrouping to the Tula area, fresh from its Crimean victory. OKH has developed a plan for the summer offensive 1943. If we can cut of the Soviet bulge southwest of Ryazan, we can trap some Soviet units and then anchor the front on the river Oka and establish a shorter front (shown in yellow below. Eliminating a suitable bulge somehow seems like an appropriate plan for the 1943 summer offensive.

[Tarhunnas]

Meanwhile, victorious German and Rumanian troops are leaving the Crimea and reestablishing defenses at the isthmuses. They leave Crimea with its cities smoldering ruins, everything that can be of help to the enemy has been destroyed and undesirable ethnic groups eliminated. A job to be proud of for the II SS Panzer Corps! Edit: I better add that that was irony, just to be on the safe side!