1.05.42 Axis AI vs fulkerson

[larryfulkerson]

This should be T34's end of turn counts:

EDIT: This is getting boring just posting the counts all the time......how about I don't post anything unless something important happens.

[randallw]

Oh, January 1942...no rifle corps yet...never mind me.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: randallw
Oh, January 1942...no rifle corps yet...never mind me.

Yeah, I just got through looking up the soviet creation unit list that was posted some time back. Rifle Corps don't appear until June '42 and I'm not sure I can last that long without them. I've got the divisions on the front lines and the rifle brigades are digging forts in the
secondary defensive lines, and the reinforcements aren't plumping up fast enough. The CV's are still too low to be going anywhere on
the front line. I'm stymied by the higher Axis CV's. I can keep attacking at low low odds and keep getting a bloody nose and we're both losing people pretty fast. I'm surprised by how deadly the Axis is still now in January, during the Blizzard and all that. Wasn't there
supposed to be some kiind of winterizing effect on the Axis? D'oh.

[randallw]

The patches have dropped their blizzard losses if the units have a decent fort level.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Thanks again Larry!

BTW, how fast do you play (i.e. turns per day and hours per turn)?

Umm.......I'm retired so WITE is all I do all day long. I rest when I'm tired, eat when I'm hungry, and I do probably about 10 or 11 hours
and I can get through about 5 turns or so in 10 hours. So I'd guess about 2 hours per turn. I'm looking for that last STAVKA inf div to
assign to some HQ somewhere and that takes time. The CR report is invaluable when you're looking for a specific unit or a specific
condition of that unit. It's taking longer per turn because I bomb the front line, do an air base strike or two, then I attack in all those
places where I can get at least a 1:2 odds situation. Most of the results are 'held' and don't go anywhere and I usually loose
thousands while he looses at least two magnitudes of order less. But there are some Axis losses. Alll the SU's were bottled up in
STAVKA and next turn they should have trickled down to the Armies and maaaaaaybe the results will be better on the attacks.

OK... so let's see what Axis AI can do in 1942... [:)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[larryfulkerson]

This is the T38 beginning of turn stats:

[larryfulkerson]

This is the T38 Axis moves:

EDIT : What we have here is T28's front lines in one frame and T34's front lines in another frame and the Soviets have pushed the
Axis west a tiny bit in some places. And mostly the Axis is attacking those hexes that are adjacent to three hexes they can attack from.
So they are doing a 3-stack attack mostly.

[larryfulkerson]

I don't remember this ever happening: My losses are less than his. By a substantial amount. I gotta find out what happened and do it
again. This is the T38 end of turn counts:

[larryfulkerson]

My air bases are framed by a red border in the picture below. It appears that I have a potential gap in my air coverage just SE of
Leningrad. I'm going to have to move some air bases to remedy that. Don't need any ground support gaps.

Wouldn't that be really cool to have range circles for the selected airport. Colored range circles, red, say, for fighters and fighter
bombers, blue for bombers, and maybe yellow for the tactical bombers. With different colors yet for the recon and transports. TOAW
has a toggled button that turns range circles on and off for all the air bases and there's a different color for the selected air base.
AND TOAW has range circles for the arty tubes too. That's kinda handy.

[larryfulkerson]

This shows the units in refit status ( blue ) and those in reserve or ready ( purple ). And about 1/2 of the force is on refit right now.

[larryfulkerson]

Those big infusions of reinforcements has slowed to a trickle. No more people are coming, practically. That means I'll have to fight with
what I have right now. Or save up enough AP's to buy some more. I'm not so sure I need any more divisions right now, I just need the
divisions I have to plump up, increase in their CV's and actually be able to hold their ground.

It looks like this spring ( well, it's March now ) and summer are going to be more pulling back slowly and giving up ground. I've been
railing industrial stuff out of potentially threatened areas so I'm getting ready to have to pull back. I may even lose Moscow this year.

[larryfulkerson]

This shot shows all the partisans bordered in red. Lots of active partisans.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the T39 beginning of turn stats:

[larryfulkerson]

This should be the T39 Axis moves: I say should be because I haven't seen it yet either:

[larryfulkerson]

This should be the T39 end of turn counts. I did some attacking, bombing of ground units, I don't remember doing an air base strike.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the T40 beginning of turn stats:

[larryfulkerson]

It's beginning to look like Moscow might be Elmer's next target. Lots of armour stacked up behind the lines and more units than the
Axis owns are there. I'm thinking this is going to be 1942's major battle. I'd better get some more defensive lines started right now.

[randallw]

You can afford to have HQs another hex or two farther back; you don't want them to be a victim of a bump and run.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the T41 beginning of turn stats:

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: randallw
You can afford to have HQs another hex or two farther back; you don't want them to be a victim of a bump and run.

Oh, right, right. Thanks, my mind was elsewhere when I moved it there.