A random blizzard AAR (no Traemyn please)

[olivier34]

I saved my game...time to take a break and find what I should do. I just spent two wonderful hours guys !! very intense !

[olivier34]

I decided not to move into the soviet airforce...a little gamey...I don't understand how a unit, even a panzer div could take all those airfields...and the unit will be sacrified. Instead I stick to my plan wich is to trap a large amount of soviet corps. I move into the gap the II SS corps and something I did not planed happended...Those arty soviet divisions did an incredible job ! [X(] I pushed them several times east and they never broke !! they retreated in good order on better positions (level 3 forts). My mechanised infantry could hardly open a gap because of those damn arty divisions ![X(]. it tooks me all I had left to surround the soviets but this is not a pocket ! it's a joke ! and Traemyn will easily turn this to his advantage !
I moved back the rest of the front...moved down south a corps of the 4th army wich was around Minsk...he will be my reserve forces for the next turn. I moved down south my troops in an agressive way. My only hope is to have scared Traemyn enough so he moves back...but I doubt it !

[olivier34]

The soviets moved back from the south and attacked strongly in some places. It was costly for them ! Both my offensive and what they had to do in response have hurt the soviet. But nowone of my best units is now surrounded.
Traemyn told me that he thought he had the iniative until the end of the game. He did this mistake to not keep a reserve force behind the front. He thinks that he should have put during those mud turns more armies 10 or 15 hexes from the front to increase their morale.
I tried to open a corridor to help my two trapped units to escape but I felt...(two hexes deep, too far)
I decided to cancel my offensive and move back my panzers in the rear.

[olivier34]

Now I see what will be the next 50 turns or so that we have to play before the end of the axis evil (me ![:'(]).
I won't get another oportunity to inflict a major defeat to the russians.
I decided to offer my surrender to Traemyn, telling him that I would be happy to play until the end if he likes to.
Traemyn decided that we could end this game now. We both learned a lot, playing our first GC. Now it's time to move on ! We have played 100 turns or so, it was really fun !
Congratulations to Traemyn ! It was a pleasure to play him !