Gnikam eht ni retsasid - Oloren USSR, Terje Axis. Oloren now permitted.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: sj80

Hey Terje, I'm sure this was a hard decision, but it was the right decision. I hope you can stabilize your line in the area north-east of Riga. [&:]
Whats your situation in the center and south?

Actually I could have held the north, but the front was too long, the centre is my main headache atm, so we are digging in, trying to make a somewhat shorter line there as well. The south. I have but one word. Rumanians [:D]


Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

arg, that looks more like 1944 then 1942.

hope you can hold the line and inflict 3:1 loses to the red army.

I think I should be able to hold around Riga as the troops I have in that sector is quite ok in morale and TOE, we'll see about the losses though. Yup, this is an early -44 [;)]


Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Tophat1812

Well we shall see if defensive victories ca come to the fore now. The Reds have to be really feeling it and trying for a kill here while he has you running. He might well overextend himself.

My main problem is that it does not seem so, he seems to pick his battles well (I knew he would), and I need to restabilize the centre and strengthen the south before I am somewhat near confident, but we will see. Atleast in the south I have alot of lvl 2-3 fort lines he needs to push through. I need some more turns in the south to dig a proper line, when that is done, I will leave the Rumanians at the front and start to pull back some Germans.


Terje

[terje439]

Turn 62

Overall
Good things first. We are at the Riga line in the north, that has shorthened the front dramatically, and should see us free up some units next turn. The bad news is that the USSR is now really dangerous in the centre and the south, thankfully we are soon done with our second fallback line in the south. At that time the Rumanians will be sacrificed to preserve the German units.
We only make 1 attack this turn, we do score a rout on a pesky Guards Cavalry Corps, so that is something atleast. The USSR make 9 attacks, score 3 held, 5 retreats and 1 rout, and threathen to cut off 6 divisions in the south.

Losses
USSR : 58.000 troops, 517 guns, 305 AFVs, 262 AC.
Axis : 28.000 troops, 323 guns, 39 AFVs, 25 AC.

Pools
Manpower : 204.320
Vehicle : 228.296
Armaments : 205.371
Hiwi : 27

Pest control
5 new partisan units pop up, and are delt with. Atleast the area I have to counter partisans in just got alot smaller...

[Omat]

Hello

I see you have planty of admin points. Is von Kluge still alive? I think he would be a better commander for the AGN instead List. Hope you can offer some resistance against the soviet.

Omat

[bigbaba]

i think the worst thing (for the germans) he could do is just to stop attacking until mid 43 to get a unbeatable strength.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Omat

Hello

I see you have planty of admin points. Is von Kluge still alive? I think he would be a better commander for the AGN instead List. Hope you can offer some resistance against the soviet.

Omat

Yeah, not alot to use those on atm, just for making forts. Will look for von Kluge next turn, but think he was fired by AH.
We'll try our best to resist them (it will probably end up like the soldiers taking on those USSR tanks in the movie Stalingrad, but who cares [:D])


Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

i think the worst thing (for the germans) he could do is just to stop attacking until mid 43 to get a unbeatable strength.

According to his own words, Oloren is vary of the major rivers, and will probably wait for winter to tackle those lines. The south on the other hand...Well, atleast some of my panzers are back to strength now, and will try to make him vary in the south as well, will go for his spearhead next turn.


Terje

[terje439]

Turn 63

Overall
Once more the USSR make more attacks than us, but I can live with that rather than to make headless attacks. Now all the USSR attacks occur in the south, but atleast three panzer divisions are back to strength, and will strike his spearhead next turn. More units are doing two things at once, resting and digging that is. In the end, the USSR make 8 attacks, and score 1 held, 5 retreats and 2 routs. Our 5 attacks ammount to 2 helds, 2 retreats and 1 rout. Our Hungarians are performing very well, if only the Rumanians could learn from their neighbour...

Losses
USSR : 63.000 troops, 534 guns, 189 AFVs, 292 AC.
Axis : 31.000 troops, 381 guns, 43 AFVs, 18 AC.

Pools
Manpower : 210.649
Vehicle : 232.053
Armaments : 226.244
Hiwi : 19

Pest control
4 units pop up, and 4 units run away.

[terje439]

Turn 64

Overall
The USSR attack in th south, and threathen to cut off 9 divisions. However the timely arrival of our panzers reduce the danger, and I think that if a pocket forms, we should be able to reopen it, and we have allready saved 3 of those 9 divisions (the map below is before we started to pull our divisions out of the salient). The USSR make 19 attacks, scoring 3 helds, 11 retreats, 1 shatter, 1 rout and 3 surrenders. The surrenders were fortified zones I thought I could keep one more turn. Seems I was wrong. We launched 13 attacks, and scored 3 helds, 4 retreats and 6 routs.

Losses
USSR : 83.000 troops, 947 guns, 481 AFVs, 307 AC.
Axis : 45.000 troops, 675 guns, 52 AFVs, 32 AC.

Pools
Manpower : 220.454
Vehicles : 236.844
Armaments : 230.647
Hiwi : 0

Pest control
We chase away the 4 units that pop up this turn.

[bigbaba]

would be great for you to reduce your loses a bit and increase his loes just a little bit to meet a 1:3 ratio.

i found that putting as many units as possible in reserve modus can help to get some holds and to inflict "unexpected" loses to the enemy while he is attacking.

[Tophat1815]

He brings up a good point Terje,do you use reserve mode to backup your line divisions?

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

would be great for you to reduce your loses a bit and increase his loes just a little bit to meet a 1:3 ratio.

i found that putting as many units as possible in reserve modus can help to get some holds and to inflict "unexpected" loses to the enemy while he is attacking.

Yes, I am in the process of achieving this. I say in the process because too many of my units are currently so weak that I need some time to rebuild some of them, but whenever I have some decent divisions, I pull weaker ones off the front, move them to the rear and place them on reserve (first a few turns on refit), then I repeat the process further down the line. (will try to show this in the next picture)

Terje

[terje439]

Turn 65

Overall
It seems the counter attack we launched last turn got the USSR somewhat vary, espesially seing how brittle his Tank Corps are, so the USSR only launched 8 attacks this turn, scoring 1 held and 7 retreats, We only make 6 attacks this turn, scoring 1 held, 1 retreat and 4 routs this turn. The good news is that we are routing his guards units in the south as soon as he brings them to the front.

Losses
USSR : 84.000 troops, 809 guns, 106 AFVs, 218 AC.
Axis : 39.000 troops, 545 guns, 70 AFVs, 21 AC.

Pools
Manpower : 227.566
Vehicle : 241.779
Armaments : 233.533
Hiwi : 15
*note - some fluctuations in the pools due to the fact that fortifed zones are built and disbanded as the front changes.

Pest control
This turn 4 partisans pop up within the Pripjet, this means we only manage to chase away 3 of them, leaving one.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Omat

Hello

I see you have planty of admin points. Is von Kluge still alive? I think he would be a better commander for the AGN instead List. Hope you can offer some resistance against the soviet.

Omat

Von Kluge given command of AGN (ended up costing me just over 60 points all in all, as I had to replace von Kluge's replacement in the 4th Army as well).


Terje

[bigbaba]

AGN looks much getter now with this shorter frontline. lets hope that he will overestimate his capacities and attack. that may give you the one or the other chance to inflict loses.

[hfarrish]

If you are so agreeable, please start showing screenshots with Attack / Defense CVs rather than movement...the defensive CVs are pretty critical right now.

Props for soldiering on.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

AGN looks much getter now with this shorter frontline. lets hope that he will overestimate his capacities and attack. that may give you the one or the other chance to inflict loses.

Does not look like it. He might attack Riga, but that will be it I think. Right now he is focusing on my centre and south, so I keep my valuable panzers in those areas, ready to unterdict if the need arise.

Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: hfarrish

If you are so agreeable ??????, please start showing screenshots with Attack / Defense CVs rather than movement...the defensive CVs are pretty critical right now.

Props for soldiering on.

The reason the units still show their MP is because that is actually quite important to me as I need to figure out which unit can go where as the need arise. As stated above, my centre is under attack, but I will try to remember to switch.


Terje

[terje439]

turn 66

Overall
Most of the enemy attacks now happen in my centre, fortunately the units on reserve duty make a difference now, as the enemy get alot more held results. Nevertheless, I am digging like mad, making new lines, and it is a matter of time before I will have to consider shortening the front even more, but it will hold for now.
The USSR launch 10 attacks, scoring 5 helds and 5 retreats. We only make 5 attacks, scoring 1 held, 1 retreat and 3 routs.

Losses
USSR : 77.000 troops, 671 guns, 483 AFVs, 240 AC.
Axis : 37.000 troops, 552 guns, 108 AFVs, 35 AC.

Pools
Manpower : 232.681
Vehicle : 245.994
Armaments : 221.172
Hiwi : 8

Pest control
3 partisan units are forced to retreat this turn, leaving none on the map.