Russia! Why not? (Morvael welcome)

[randallw]

If you ( Morvael ) keep putting up those 3 unit stacks you may be facing a bunch of routs when the stacks do not hold.

[morvael]

I like my routs better than Germans driving deep into my lines What you see is more dramatic version of what I see, because at the start of my turn most of those units rally.

[cpt flam]

9-24-42
taking back some ground around Tula

pool
31 400 men
210 800 veh
110 419 arm
19 hiwis

[cpt flam]

advance continue slowly

losses
10 450 men, 225 art, 55 AFV & 113 AC ax
20 140 " ", 380 " ",163 " " & 175 "" Ru

[cpt flam]

turn 68 post about combat zone
bad news: richard Ruoff has been killed in his bunker by partisans

pool
24 060 men, 210 300 VEH, 99 825 ARM & 5 Hi

losses this time
8 320 men, 160 art, 25 AFV & 102 AC
27 390 " ", 500 " ",278 " " & 206 ""

[morvael]

Was his stats good ones? I have not lost a commander for a long time (15 turns maybe) - but because I had to close in my HQs (due to mud), I expect new casualties to appear soon.

[cpt flam]

10-8 keeping pressure (on both of us)
there is 2 "arrows" that i don't attack each has 2 divs and a corp
i would prefer them to go away themselves

pool
15 520 men, 212 700 VEH, 95 987 ARM & 1 hiwi

losses as usual
9 010 men, 190 art, 029 AFV & 214 AC
23 130 " ", 445 " ", 236 " " & 188 ""

[morvael]

And they obeyed your wish and went away (to the next defensive line)

[cpt flam]

turn 70 winter arrive allready (blizzard in north russia)

losses
2 040 men, 35 art, 11 afv & 1AC (taking some time to recover)
3 710 " ", 90 " ", 38 " " & 3 "

pool
16 160 men
211 800 VEH
98 146 ARM
9 Hiwis

[morvael]

Blessed be the mud. Meanwhile the forges of Mordor are working non-stop...

[cpt flam]

10-22 Mud everywhere except Europe
no need for a picture

pool
13 273 men
206 300 VEH
111 337 ARM
3 hiwis

[cpt flam]

turn 72 snow in north russia
only 1 successfull attack, i begin to fight rifle corps

losses
5 780 men, 100 art, 36 AFV & 2 AC axis
4 430 " ", 90 " ", 82 " " & 8 ""

pool
13 870 men, 208 k VEH, 125 509 ARM & 3 hiwi

[cpt flam]

11-5 very few possibilities
waiting for the river to freeze
Luftwaffe units begin to arrive

pool
18 950 men, 208 500 VEH, 134 706 ARM & 18 Hiwis

losses from my attacks
2 460 men, 50 art, 6 afv & 2 AC germany
7 880 " ", 170 "", 33 "" & 11 AC

[cpt flam]

turn 74
"river" as frozen now possible to attack across
i want the hex where is a Tank corp (8-36) for my rail

pool
31 610 men
209 600 VEH
151 729 ARM (+17 k)
18 hiwis

[cpt flam]

losses just gone past 5 millions
AC 10 axis vs 18

[cpt flam]

11-19
Don has been "cleared" up to Voronezh

losses
6 120 men, 120 art, 43 AFV & 9 AC
13 220 " ", 270 " ",133 " " & 24 ac

active pool
39 580men, 210 800 VEH, 157 291 ARM & 7 Hiwis

[morvael]

My supply situation worsens, as first mud and now winter causes a lot of damage to the trucks. I'm now just holding and waiting for the 1943 lend lease for salvation

[timmyab]

What's the situation in the North?
The Axis have so much in the South that they must be weak in the North.If I was playing the SU I'd be thinking about making trouble up there.

[morvael]

I guess they are weaker but without a single corps to spare I can't break through level 3 forts for now, so I'm happy with a stalemate there. Also, some creative accounting by Leningrad and Northwest Front commanders allowed me to send more forces to the south without really weakening those fronts. Actually, I'm a very defensive player, so I attack only where I see 90%+ chances of success and take no risks as to counterattacks and encirclements. That makes for a boring game, I know. At least I have not lost a single unit in '42.

[timmyab]

It is true that you don't need to take any chances to win when playing the SU, but I think you've reached the kind of force advantage here where you can start to think offensively.I would maybe take a third of the units in the South and attack in the North.
The Axis are only really dangerous at this stage if you allow them to concentrate locally.I would prevent them from doing this by applying pressure across the whole front and so forcing them to disperse their strength.