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[Tophat1815]

Read it daily,or when there is an update I should say. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well.

[cpt flam]

Merry christmas too
Have a good day

[terje439]

Still no turn from Brad, so this is merely to wish you all a Happy New Year.


Terje

[terje439]

Turn 91 aka Back on Track

Overall
As before we step back in the salient, and attack southwards. After examining the cities (talk about your superspies btw), I have decided not to target Stalino (and the other two cities I do not recall the name of) although I can take them easily enough. This would however not gain me much, so I will instead attack in a SW-direction (No, NOT Star Wars!!).
To reduce my attrition losses, I am contemplating something, and that is to make my line look like this;
ddEddEddEdd where the d's are divisions and the E's are empty hexes. If the USSR pushes into the empty hexes, I should be able to deliberately attack with alteast two divisions, but I am not sure if they will manage to push the attacker back. If they fail, I am in a bad place. Anyone tested this? Any thoughts?
We launched 30 attacks, and scored 2 helds, 24 retreats, 1 rout and 3 surrenders. Only thing I am not happy about are the two helds, but our losses were light this turn nevertheless.

USSR units in pockets at start of turn
9.

USSR units in pockets at end of turn
12.

Losses
USSR : 175.000 troops, 2.683 guns, 183 AFVs, 323 AC.
Axis : 38.000 troops, 275 guns, 51 AFVs, 69 AC.

USSR units lost
1 Guards Cavalry Corps, 1 Rifle Corps, 7 rifle divisions.

German units disbanded
1 LuftWaffe Field Division. Am now contemplating disbanding the Railroad repair guys. They will not have much use for much longer.

Partisans hunted down
6.

German pools
Manpower : 10.374
Vehicles : 182.283
Armaments : 91.876
Hiwi : 2.752

[Wuffer]

you will get both D-/Z-town and Stalino.
looking at his CVs and unit-numbers, he had to abandon at least D. immediately, otherwise you could happily roll his entire front with even more losses before mud...
Honestly, keep this offensive for half a year and Germany might even survive the exercise... [:D][:D]

[juret]

wich railroad repair units ? the fbd ones? u still have 5? i would go with max 2 untill autum 43 and then disband.

Just continue rolling with the panzerball and gobble units for him. The direction looks ok, altough cutting hes units of to sea of azov and then move west would force him to evacuate the entire area through crimea and give u nice defensive lines againt dnepr for axis minors and AGS.

[Tophat1815]

Time for screenshots showing the whole front once again my friend. Also an update on total losses and what your tank numbers are looking like. You had 10 days of break....[:D]

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Wuffer

you will get both D-/Z-town and Stalino.
looking at his CVs and unit-numbers, he had to abandon at least D. immediately, otherwise you could happily roll his entire front with even more losses before mud...
Honestly, keep this offensive for half a year and Germany might even survive the exercise... [:D][:D]

I do not think so;
1. Mud is arriving sooner rather than later (T91 = mud in south zone)
2. If I do not take Stalino++ now, he will get his corps formations in there
3. If i DO take Stalino, my front gets too long, and I will not be able to hold it, nor can I keep attacking.
4. If I do not target his D/Z-area NOW, I will not take it as my strength is decreasing quickly (I am now happy when I see a German 5 CV Inf...)

Well, I intend to attack as long as possible, but a big Q will be how well he can dig in during mud season. If he gets his frontline up to lvl 3 forts, I can forget about attacking, as I will not be able to break such a line once more I fear.


Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: juret

wich railroad repair units ? the fbd ones? u still have 5? i would go with max 2 untill autum 43 and then disband.

Just continue rolling with the panzerball and gobble units for him. The direction looks ok, altough cutting hes units of to sea of azov and then move west would force him to evacuate the entire area through crimea and give u nice defensive lines againt dnepr for axis minors and AGS.

Yup, FBD. Still have all 5, and they do not relaly do much (well, 2 of them are behind the attack, and are working, the other 3 just sits there...).
The problem with driving straight south is that I simply do not have the units to do so. I lack the CV in most of my panzer units, and I lack Infantry divisions as well...


Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Tophat1812

Time for screenshots showing the whole front once again my friend. Also an update on total losses and what your tank numbers are looking like. You had 10 days of break....[:D]

Hehehe my bad. Ok, will make a bunch of screenshots when I do the next turn. Tank numbers?! What tank numbers?! Oh wait, you mean my Tiger pool don't you? [:D]


Terje

[terje439]

Turn 92 aka I spoke too soon, and lots of info for Tophat

Overall
Well, Brad decided to fall back in the south. That freed up units for me, so the direction of the push was directly south after all. IF I manage to refuel my panzers, there is a slight chance of another big pocket. Gotta go for it.
Brad launched 3 attacks in the salient, scoring 1 held and 2 retreats, while we launched 44 attacks, and scored 2 helds, 34 retreats, 3 routs and 5 surrenders this turn.
Prey for good weather now, and we just might bag alot of USSR units!!!

USSR units in pockets at start of turn
12.

USSR units in pockets at end of turn
0.

Losses
USSR : 178.000 troops, 2.460 guns, 122 AFVs, 429 AC.
Axis : 37.000 troops, 300 guns, 73 AFVs, 69 AC.

Total losses
USSR : 10.132.000 troops, 182.622 guns, 27.131 AFVs, 26.203 AC.
Axis : 2.877.000 troops, 34.499 guns, 7.800 AFVs, 6.155 AC.

USSR units lost
1 Rifle Corps, 8 rifle divisions, 2 rifle brigades, 1 naval rifle brigade.

German units disbanded
1 FBD unit.

Partisans hunted down
8.

German pools
Manpower : 18.196
Vehicles : 184.118
Armaments : 110.082
Hiwi : 2.211

Axis minors pools. Numbers given as Manpower/Vehicles/Armaments
Finland : 30.612/0/106.616
Italy : 43.670/0/43.104
Rumania : 14.158/21/0
Hungary : 112.736/19/107.216
Slovakia : 21.407/0/13.098

Stuff that used to belong to USSR that is now all mine (add evil laughter)
56 ports, 47 railyards, 1.192 manpower centres, 14 heavy Industry, 2 oil production, 3 fuel production, 28 resource production.

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