End of T5
Near Leningrad GER forces pushed 50 miles north to the Gulf of Finland with skirmishes against SOV screening forces. The Leningrad defensive line was attacked at Divenskaya and GER infantry and mechanized are in place for an all-out assault next turn. There was no move east below Lake Ilmen. The FIN forces advanced east to the SOV wall at Sortavala, which is expected to hold, and they moved south towards Leningrad and will arrive at the fortification line next turn.
The GER push towards Moscow continued with the land bridge defenses being assaulted and destroyed. The remaining troops were pushed back to the outer Moscow defense line. A heavy concentration of AGC forces are grouped in this area. GER crossed the Dnepr in force and attacked screening forces west of the river. GER is about 20 miles east of the Dnepr from Gomel to Smolensk.
In the south almost no advances east or south were made and no battles were waged. Infantry forces were moved up to Odessa and Kiev and the Dnepr was crossed north of Kiev without resistance by a heavy concentration of GER forces.
SOV Response:
The Leningrad defenses reorganized and prepared for the GER assault which will come next turn. The line is weak having mostly F0 fortifications, some of which will turn to F1s by next turn. All factories of value are evacuated out of the city. The 30th Army, which had been in defenses south of Ilmen, moved towards Moscow to become part of the defensive line.
Most reinforcements this turn were added around the Moscow area to build up the defensive lines. The line is at least 20 miles wide from south of Vyazma to north of Rzhev and contains many F1 and F2 fortifications. South of Vyazma a checker board defense is set up that runs to Gomel.
Kiev is abandoned and the forces are moved back into a checker board defense against the approach of GER units that have crossed the Dnepr north of Kiev. From 40 miles north of Cherkassy the Dnepr fortified positions are maintained, having many F2s and F1s.
All on map units - morale mean 48, experience mean 35. Rifle divisions - 5 out of 205 have experience > 49.
Battles – 1 holds, 28 retreats, 6 surrenders, and 8 routs, with 25 airdrops
Casualties GER/SOV: 72.1k/946k (+17.5k/61k) men, 522/12.0k (+24/700) guns, 515/7.6k (+30/300) AFVs, and 185/1533 (+32/136) aircraft (including GER 57 (+15) recon and 23 (+7) transport).
Comment added at Posting:
The center screenshots were corrupted so just the north and south are posted. The GER push at the land bridge is missed. Bozo may start adding some of his own screenshots to help clarify the situation from the GER perspective.
It doesn't seem, up to this point, that HQBUs have been used by GER, which has allowed most arm and vehicle factories to be evac'ed.
I attempted to set up some sort of checker board defense this game west of the Dnepr but it was mostly a failure with troops becoming surrounded. At this point I don't think there is any good way to defend the Ukraine. I have seen some AARs in the past that have but I don't understand how it is done.
