The STAVKA War Diaries

[M60A3TTS]

1941-45 Campaign game, alt VC

Server game
Locked HQ Support
Non Random Weather
Full FOW

House Rules

No Para drops to break pockets at anytime in the game. No Para missions at all by the Soviets until the first Blizzard.
No bombing of air bases more than 3 times a turn (after turn 1).
No bombing of HQ's unless stacked with a ground unit.

Additional Auto VC (in place to prevent ludicrous runaways)

If the Axis player holds Leningrad, Moscow, Voronezh and Rostov concurrently at the end of 1941 he wins an Auto Victory.

If the Soviet player holds Pskov, Smolensk, Bryansk, Kharkov and Stalino concurrently at anytime in 1942 he wins an Auto Victory.
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20 June 1941.

Generals Shaposhnikov,Vatutin and Zhukov are scheduled to meet with Comrade Stalin tomorrow morning to discuss the latest situation and intelligence reports. Although the generals are in agreement that war is now only days away, Comrade Stalin remains unconvinced. He still trusts his intuition over his own spies it appears. General Zhukov in particular is ready to insist to Comrade Stalin that all fronts be put on a war footing at once, and further reconnaisance incursions by the Luftwaffe be actively opposed, shooting them down if necessary.

[Peltonx]

Good luck man your last game was amazing hope this one is also.

You should link your last few AAR's for the new peeps.

GZ should just shot Stalin heheh

[Blubel]

Good luck!

[TulliusDetritus]

Good luck and good hunt! Stay away from er... pockets! [:)]

[M60A3TTS]

Week 1- 22 June 41

I'm not really into server-based games because I like to go back and do all the screenies at a later time. But Michael wants to guard against cheaters, so I go along here. There won't probably be as much visual presentation as in other games, at least early on.

MT gives me the extended Lvov pocket treatment, but air recon exposes a weakness around the Zbruch River. The 240th Mechanized Division exploits the gap and breaks the pocket.


In the center, Minsk is surrounded.

In the north, the port of Ventspils is surprisingly left unbombed and in Soviet hands. A rifle division and a security regiment take advantage of that lapse and sail off to safety.

The Red Air force heads for the national reserve. The usual fortified regions are disbanded and Black Sea, Baltic, and Volga air command HQs get their disband orders.

Sapper regiments are mobilized for the benefit of some armies. Three per army is the standard here.

[Ketza]

Extended pockets like that on turn one more often then not lead tend to be leaky. I prefer keeping them more secure by not biting off as much.

Good break!

[M60A3TTS]

WEEK 2 - 29 June 1941

In the north, the lead German elements are over the Daugava and on their way to Pskov. Riga continues to remain in Soviet hands.



In the center, reinforcements move up to the land bridge to oppose the lead German motorized and panzer elements.



In the south, the Axis forces are still digesting the remanants of the Lvov pocket. Defenders hold along the Yuzhny Bug.

[M60A3TTS]

WEEK 3 - 3 JULY 41

In the north, the lack of units forces a fallback to positions near Novgorod.



In the center, a double pincer move blows over the Dnepr and encircles most units at the Smolensk land bridge.



In the south, troops fall back towards Dnepropetrovsk-Zaporoyzhe.



OOB

[randallw]

Looks troubled for the Russians already!

[Balou]

ORIGINAL: randallw

Looks troubled for the Russians already!

Time to deploy new armaments ?

[M60A3TTS]

As everyone knows, the campaign with MT came to an abrupt and disappointing end. I've continued along with another game started around the same time with a fellow who goes by the name of Gadjan. We are about to start turn 23. Like MT's game, it's server based so I don't have much in the way of screenshots.

To date, in the north Leningrad fell, and the German forces are attempting to link up with the Finns east of the Volkhov. It doesn't seem likely given the current battle lines and only two weeks of snow left, but we will see.

In the center, the fighting is going back and forth to the east of Smolensk, and at Bryansk. Moscow is quite safe from capture now, and the Western Front is supported by a full strength STAVKA army of cavalry as well as an army half full with tank brigades. The cavalry army is already over half way to guards status itself. I've swapped out lower morale units of Western Front and replaced them with units of higher morale. I'm also starting drop a few FZs in place to build the Spring '42 line.

To the south, Kharkov, Stalino, Rostov and the Crimea remain in Soviet hands. I've taken a little bit of a chance by leaving the T-34 factories in Kharkov all this time, but like Moscow it looks safe from capture with the blizzard coming soon.

Gadjan has been very much the anti-MT with little pocketing but a lot of grinding. The Red Army has taken about 3 million losses so far, but I've also been able to grind some German divisions down in turn. The fighting that has gone back and forth created quite a few guards divisions, both rifle and cavalry. I'm now comitting a few tank brigades to start their march towards guards status.

Air forces were pulled back on the first mud turn proper and units reassigned based on where vet experienced units were needed most.

[M60A3TTS]

North



Center



South

[Peltonx]

Nice job man. Should be a very good blizzard for you and a quick end to the war.

Only grinding never works vs humans

[rmonical]

" Black Sea, Baltic, and Volga air command HQs get their disband orders"

Why?

[M60A3TTS]

ORIGINAL: rmonical

" Black Sea, Baltic, and Volga air command HQs get their disband orders"

Why?

Their personnel are the equivalent of a rifle division and are non-essential air command units. There are adequate frontal air commands.

[randallw]

All you need is another 15 or 20 consecutive mud turns and you are in good shape.

[M60A3TTS]

Gadjan resigned, so this one ended early. It can be a challenge just finding players of equal ability.

[sillyflower]

You can try playing the PRO's

[Seminole]

Gadjan resigned, so this one ended early. It can be a challenge just finding players of equal ability

I think the best learning is in the crucible against humans.
Learning first hand what can be done, and what shouldn't be done goes a lot farther than reading an AAR.
It is a shame there isn't way to more effectively reach a person through server games for communication.

[M60A3TTS]

Mehring looks to be up next. We should be able to get to at least the blizzard in this one.