Camerone in Russia (STEF78 vs Schascha), Schascha welcome

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:03 pm

Is it possible to get a draw after a poor 1941 campaign as GHC? That will be the subject of this AAR.

My opponent Schascha is a very good chessplayer and I've been completely outplayed during summer 1941. For the details see his AAR (in french)

http://www.leqg.org/

He was also terribly efficient with the partisans and from mid to end october 1941 4 of my 5 rail lines were cut. So I decided to go back to Poland (shame on me[:-]).

Only advantage of that retreat, my pzd had a high morale and CV in march 1942

It was the same for my Inf

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:14 pm

I was of course on the offensive from march to june but he had time to prepare lines of defence, had plenty of manpower armaments and so on.

In june 1942, the front looked like that:

The north

The south

Poor result in fact[:(]

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:20 pm

I wanted of course continue to attack and built ambitious plans

With all my mighty Pzd, Mot and Inf it must be "fingers in the noise"

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:26 pm

But before, I decided to make some recon and the result was a little bit different....

and the South

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:43 pm

I decided bravely to attack in the South

Each hex was earned with pain, a breakthrough looked impossible

Just a picture to show the efficiency of Schascha's partisans

And finally the OOB

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:47 pm

I decided to insist but it was a no way. Just an example below

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:53 pm

From turn 56, we begun a WWI war style.

Schascha took an hex with heavy attacks

I counterattacked just after.

At this time of the game, I hadn't enough worked my chain of command (see the penalty)

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:01 pm

This WWI continued all the summer and fall 1942. Here the beginning of november 1942 south of the Dniepr

and around Minsk

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:09 pm

We are now in May 1943, last turn of mud. Schascha has his red army 2.0 ready to bite. I have an in depth defence and a good reserve activation system.

The front is as follow:

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:18 pm

A weakness comes from the fact that Schascha uses a lot of bombing HQ and killed Guderian, Von Kleist... it's a clear handicap

The losses...

And the OOB

And now I waiting for the red waves!!![:D]

bigbaba · Post by **bigbaba** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:51 pm

4.4 mio. axis troops? wow. i never saw such a high number here at this time.

you can easily get a draw if you keep defending and giving up space slowly where its necessary.

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:11 pm

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

4.4 mio. axis troops? wow. i never saw such a high number here at this time.

you can easily get a draw if you keep defending and giving up space slowly where its necessary.

I have:
- roughly 50 000 german squads available
- a good Luftwaffe (all J87 were converted in fighters) and 95% of the fighters are FW190 and BF109G6
- all Pzd /Mot are at full strength
- up to 4 lines of 3 to 4 level forts
- more than 100 AP in bank
I haven't space to give but he will have to hit very hard for each hex. I will closely look at my morale.

juret · Post by **juret** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:36 pm

your tigers attached to ss pz and gd regiments on reserve behind front?

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:30 pm

ORIGINAL: juret

your tigers attached to ss pz and gd regiments on reserve behind front?

At this time of the game, GHC has only 6 units available to get Tigers.
- 3 SS Div LAH, DR, Totenkopf
- 3 heavy pz battalion (502,503,505). I have attached them to Mot or Pzd.

All these units will be in refit mode during mud turns and in reserve mode during clear turns. And they will be split into regiment to get a better activation.

And right now I have plenty of Tigers in the reserve pool

swkuh · Post by **swkuh** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 11:10 am

If "draw" as Axis you will have done well!
And very well explained AAR, thanks.

Like your ideas of holding great reserve/ready units behind fronts, but makes placing them very important.

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:22 pm

ORIGINAL: rrbill

If "draw" as Axis you will have done well!
And very well explained AAR, thanks.

Like your ideas of holding great reserve/ready units behind fronts, but makes placing them very important.

With recon and logic, you can eliminate some points of attacks. And you also have to search his Art

Just an example what I did north of Minsk

I evacuated the salliant and set Pzd/Mot in reserve mode in second line. This way I'm able to get up to 6 units acting as reserve on a single fght.

Schascha took the hex north of the lake only after a fierce fight!

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:24 pm

In the South, I give one hex and sacrify some italians units

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:38 pm

I only loose 2 hexes (except italians) and due to mud I reoccupate immediatly these hexes.

Some successfull defensive fights were very intense

Minsk sector

And in the Nikolaïev sector

As you noticed, I have attached a lot of units directly to Army HQ and disbanded some corps HQ. It's clearly more efficient.

Thanks to Pelton for this good advice [&o]

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:55 pm

Turn 102, 27 May 1943

Bad news to begin, another victim of air strikes

Inf 8, Morale 8 etc... I loose a useful commander

And below the list of the KIA

STEF78 · Post by **STEF78** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:57 pm

Never let your opponent feeling free without entrenchment. An example north of Minsk