Defending Mother Russia Saper vs Harrybanana (No Saper)

[gingerbread]

You could reduce the strain on your ARM by not using Cavalry in combat - those squads are expensive. You will need Artillery Divisions when saper switches to defence.

[Harrybanana]

A quieter turn. Saper continued to attack in the South, but primarily with his infantry as he rested his panzers. Of course, I counterattacked in my turn. North West of Orel he has positioned an infantry force into attack position. I have moved some of my tank corps into Reserve. My Manpower Pool continues to increase, but my Armament Pool hits "0". I am going to have a very difficult time coming up with the Armaments I need to build the artillery divisions. I'll probably have to disband some of my artillery regiments, of course this will cost me APs.

Below is the situation in the North.

[Harrybanana]

The Centre

[Harrybanana]

The South

[randallw]

Number of armaments factories you have?

[Harrybanana]

ORIGINAL: randallw

Number of armaments factories you have?

Good Question. I lost quite a few in 1941 so according to my production screen I only have 299 armament factories, none of which are damaged. But according to the event log last turn I had 86500 armament points produced in 346 Armament factories. I'm sure someone brighter than me (ie some one who actually read the entire Manual) can explain the discrepancy.

[Michael T]

You have a 1.3 multiplier for Arm Factories in 42. But it works on a per factory basis not the total. Eg a 3 Arm Factory x 1.3 = 3.9 but it does not round up to 4 so its stays at 3. Whereas a 4 Arm Factory x 1.3 = 5.2 so you get 5 for that one. So you can see the multiplier taken overall in your case is less than 1.2

[Harrybanana]

ORIGINAL: Michael T

You have a 1.3 multiplier for Arm Factories in 42. But it works on a per factory basis not the total. Eg a 3 Arm Factory x 1.3 = 3.9 but it does not round up to 4 so its stays at 3. Whereas a 4 Arm Factory x 1.3 = 5.2 so you get 5 for that one. So you can see the multiplier taken overall in your case is less than 1.2

Ah... thank you Michael T; another very good thing to know and file for future reference.

[Harrybanana]

T64:

Another relatively quiet turn as Saper continues to largely rest his panzers. He does, however, continue to advance slowly in the South.

As seen below the offensive I thought Saper was going to launch West of Tula does not materialize.

[Harrybanana]

The South.

[Harrybanana]

T65

In the North I begin a limited Offensive; more of maneuver than combat.

[Harrybanana]

West of Moscow I also make some attacks and bring in some of the big boys for a major offensive next turn (assuming Saper doesn't spot my tank corps hiding in the woods).

[Harrybanana]

No action in the Centre except each turn we swap control of the no-mans land between our lines.

[Harrybanana]

In the South Saper traps 2 more of my divisions with no chance of rescue.

[Harrybanana]

OOB, Losses and production. My Armaments are starting to rise again.

[Harrybanana]

T66

Saper does a lot of reconnaissance in the North.

[Harrybanana]

But it is between Vyazma and Bryansk that I have spotted a weakness in his line. Besides this is the closest spot in our lines to Berlin. The key was to rout the strong units circled in green. To do this I first had to attack and retreat the weak regiment circled in blue. Once this was done I than had to Buildup 2 more Rifle Corps (costing me 46 APs) to get the odds I needed on the strong stack.

[Harrybanana]

The Breakthrough Area after my turn. I doubt my encirclement will hold. I just hope Saper doesn't have any strong mobile units in the area.

[Harrybanana]

The North

[Harrybanana]

Kalinin