1.05.42 Axis AI vs fulkerson

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Soviet moves in T2:

[larryfulkerson]

Beginning of turn T3 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Axis T3 moves:

EDIT: That pocket west of Minsk.......um.......I changed my mind AFTER I took the 'before' screenshot and BEFORE I took the 'after' shot
so it looks like the Soviet units are moving as well as the Axis units. It's an optical delusion.

[larryfulkerson]

It's slowly dawning on me that what's needed by the Soviet side is a delicate balance of losses both to the Axis and the Soviets so that the Axis is worn down slowly but
not at too pricey while doing it.  A mix of pull-back and standing firm using terrain features to the max, making the Axis pay for every hex but not to risk loosing a
unit while doing it.  Trade space for lower losses overall.  Okie dokie.

[larryfulkerson]

One thing I just thought of to do to bring the losses down is put all the bombers on night missions, and pull all the lower experienced
pilots back to the NR. The experience goes from the 30's to 59 ( rounded off is 60 ) and so I'm thinking I should move all the pilots in
the 30's to the NR because they have roughly half the experience of the most experienced pilots. Will slow down Axis losses very little
at all and will slow down my losses substantially.

EDIT: One other thing I could do would be to spend some of those 50 AP's to upgrade some of the I-153's to a more modern fighter.

[larryfulkerson]

I had the thought that maybe I should pull back to the NR all those pilots that have low morale. Does morale figure into air-to-air
combat? Does anybody know? I would do it in real life so I'm going to do it now.

[larryfulkerson]

I bought an 8 AP fort for Riga because in my last encounter with the Axis AI, he let me hang on to Riga for at least 24 turns. I'm hoping
that same thing will happen in this game. The fort will allow high fortification levels for the Riga hex.

[larryfulkerson]

I parked the 10th division on the rail junction hoping to delay the repair of Axis rail. The sacrifice of one division is worth the chance to
significantly delay the laying of Axis rail toward Leningrad.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Soviet T3 moves:

[larryfulkerson]

I thought I'd rail out stuff from Odessa since it's going to be on the front line soon.

[larryfulkerson]

Beginning of turn T4 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

I'm running into more and more HQ's that don't have any arty tubes. So I bought 10 of the 41B Reg. Arty and left them in STAVKA so
that they won't be (u) anymore ( so they flesh out and fill up with actual equipment and men ). Next turn or so I'll distribute them if the
automatic system doesn't.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T4 Soviet moves:

[larryfulkerson]

End of turn T4 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Beginning of turn 5 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T5 Axis moves:

EDIT: The Soviet stuff in Lapland appears to be moving while the Axis are because I changed my mind about where to move that stuff
to after I took the 'after' shot.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Soviet moves: ( not much to say about this turn. I moved all the bombers back to daylight missions except for those on
VVS airbases ).

[larryfulkerson]

end of turn T5 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Beginning of turn 6 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Axis T6 moves: