RE: 1.04.36 KLilly vs Fulkerson T7

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my T39 moves with an overlay showing my selected attacks. I didn't attack all up and down the line this time so as not to abort
any almost-Guards units with a "loss". I've got a lot of pending Guards units still.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production for T39:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T40 front lines before I've moved anything besides the two Armies in northern lapland battling the Finns. Those guys I've
already moved and attacked that Finn division I had isolated from last turn and it surrendered.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a close-up of the battle against that Finn division I isolated last turn. I have no idea why KLilly didn't counterattack to try to free the isolated division. Is it that the Finns CAN'T attack? Surely not. One of life's little mysteries.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what's happening NE of Riga. I'm breaking through because of the sparcity of Axis units and the relative ease with which I can push the Axis units around.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all my moves with an overlay showing my attacks: I expect KLilly to start his spring push any turn now.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production for T40

[Flapdrol]

> I expect KLilly to start his spring push any turn now.

To do what?
- All industry west of Vladivostok has been evacuated
- He'll find it hard to pocket many Russians since you can fall back 20 hexes without any problem

All you need to do is avoid a total disaster (like having three fronts pocketed) until the Rifle corps show up. In he meanwhile, amuse yourself by marching to Viborg and Helsinki since he doesn't seem to realize he has a Finnish front.

BTW: It is strange that Lend-Lease doesn't seem to be tied to how the Russian front is actually doing at the moment. At this moment in the war, the Western Allies didn't have a whole lot of tanks to spare. So why they have sent you 1000 tanks (albeit mostly crappy ones), while you have 1200 KV-1s and T34s in your pool, is a complete riddle to me. Surely these would have been put to better use in Egypt/Libya

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Flapdrol
> I expect KLilly to start his spring push any turn now.

To do what?
- All industry west of Vladivostok has been evacuated
- He'll find it hard to pocket many Russians since you can fall back 20 hexes without any problem

I expect him to try to capture Stalino and or Stalingrad

ORIGINAL: Flapdrol
BTW: It is strange that Lend-Lease doesn't seem to be tied to how the Russian front is actually doing at the moment. At this moment in the war, the Western Allies didn't have a whole lot of tanks to spare. So why they have sent you 1000 tanks (albeit mostly crappy ones), while you have 1200 KV-1s and T34s in your pool, is a complete riddle to me. Surely these would have been put to better use in Egypt/Libya

I agree with you about the tanks. WTF?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T41 front lines before any Soviet movement:

[larryfulkerson]

In the area SW of Leningrad KLilly has pulled back to the south and has left open the road to Tallinin and I'm not all that sure I want to
occupy all that stuff now. The troops on hand are limited...........I railed in the 4th Shock Army and it's going to help somewhat but it's not
nearly enough to form a east-west front line across the area south of Tallinin. I'm thinking maybe I should hold what I have now. I've
moved everybody as far as they would go for this turn but I'm not sure that anything more expansive is advisable. What do you guys
think?

[larryfulkerson]

I thought I'd better investigate the terrain and flew some recon out over the area SW of Leningrad and what'd'ya know I found some
Panzers lurking in the cities. Think I'll just hold what I got now.

[larryfulkerson]

I went to the Commanders Report and made sure that each Airbase had at least 7 air groups on it ( besides those airbases that are frozen in the mountains near Turkey ).

[larryfulkerson]

I discovered that I could turn paratroopers into Guards Rifle Divisions and converted three stacks of three paratroopers and railed them to LapLand so as to help out in the fighting there.

[larryfulkerson]

I found some more tanks and troops to rail in to the SW of Leningrad. Now maybe I have enough to stretch all the way over to Talinin.

[larryfulkerson]

I built three more Rifle Divisions at Kharkov so as to start building a strategic reserve. I don't have one yet and there's going to be a need soon.

Also, I upgraded all the I-16's to Lagg-3's and Mig-3's and P-40E's.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my moves with an overlay to show my attacks:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T41 oob, losses, destroyed units, and production:

[Flapdrol]

Losses: 75K Soviet vs 7.5K Axis. Methinks the Winter offensive is largely over, though I'm curious as to what he will do around Tallinn.

BTW: Do you know if his Recon losses are hurting him? Have you any idea how much of his recon capacity has been destroyed?

[larryfulkerson]

I just happened to have a game ongoing where I'm the Axis player against the Soviet AI and I've captured a screenshot of the production of recon types and it's not terribly high. Cross-referencing the production of recon planes with the figures of recon losses reveals that the number of recon planes deployed by the Axis now must be approaching non-existant. I'm thinking maybe in the low tens of planes left. Which is a good thing for me if I can move my reserves around without being observed doing so. Also, loss of recon by the Axis might just aid me in my offensive drives too. I for one am glad I still have some recon planes, even if I don't use them an awful lot.