Field Marshal von Fogger vs Comrade Marshal Fulkerson

[Petey]

Exciting game; lots going on. Many recent developments, particularly with John's capture of that port.

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Lobster
Hey Larry, thanks for the file.

Do you need the equipment file as well? I've attached the version 9 equipment file to this post in case you need it too.

Correctamundo. Thanks.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Petey
Exciting game; lots going on. Many recent developments, particularly with John's capture of that port.

I agree. I'm having a blast and I really love the way Fogger plays. He used to be an Army officer and it shows. I'm learning a lot.

Here's the Leningrad area now. I've pulled back the defenders to better positions and I'm hoping they can hold from there. The last
fallback position is just north of the city itself.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a zoomed-out view of Leningrad and points north.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Murmansk area and points south.

[fogger]

Here is the start of turn 9 from my side of the fence. I made a mistake last turn. My recon unit captured the bridge at Kherson destroyed it and then withdrew. My thinking was I was unsure what units Larry had in the area and an attack may have resulted in the unit retreating away from my main body. Destroying the bridge helped securing my right flank but in hindsight I should have dug in.

I now have to move North to open up the front and West to regain contact with my main body. I have also committed one of my panzer div's from my reserve so I will very shortly have to withdraw one to reform my reserve.

[fogger]

Here is the centre and this will be my main problem. I am still thinking of what to do here. From the replay's I think Larry's line is in depth in that I see units going into the line but are not there after the replay. With the current "bug" it will be almost impossible to take the line head on.

What I did / am doing with the Stalin line is to pin units and then surround and destroy. On turn 6 I counted 20+ Div's in the line. I should be able to destroy about 12+.

With the centre I may pin the line with min force and attack somewhere else. AS I sais I am still thinking. Anyway I better start on turn 9

John

[larryfulkerson]

About 20 minutes ago I received some moves from John Fogger and I watched the replay etc. This is a zoomed-out view of the far north
where John is attacking Murmansk and is taking over the area north of Leningrad. My rail cap. increased to 9K this turn so I'll be using
most of it getting some people into this area. Well, maybe not most of it but a lot.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Leningrad area now. John is running up against my roadblocks and reducing them one at a time and pushing NE just about
as fast as he can go. I'm not at all sure I can rail enough people into this area to prevent the eventual fall of Leningrad. Talk about an
exciting game. I'm having a blast.

Hey Fogger dude. It just occurs to me that you're getting all kinds of good intel from these pictures and my verbage. So to try to hang
onto some OPSEC why don't you give me a five-turn head start on your looking at these bad boys. That way maybe the information will
be stale and we'll have a better game. Just a thought.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Smolensk area now. The front line from Orsha going north is all but ready but from Orsha going south I just have roadblocks
in the river crossings and that's not going to hold up John for very long. If at all. So I'm going to have to rail some people into this area
too. Good thing the rail cap. went up to 9K this turn. I've already got about 3.8K embarked somewhere and there's 9K left to use. Cool.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Kiev area. The Stalin Line is crumbling and being outflanked and John is running into my roadblocks on the next river they
reach. My roadblocks aren't going to hold very long so more people are going to be needed along the Dvina river proper. I think the
name of the river is the Dvina.......it may not be. I'll look up the name and edit it into this post.

Edit: The name of the River I'm talking about is the Dnepr River. The one that runs through Kiev going north and south.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Odessa area now. Because John captured a port to the east of Odessa that city has been negated and the front lines in this
area need to fall back toward the east and try to make it to the Dnepr and block from there.

[Petey]

John:

If the only mistake you made is destroying a bridge in error with a recon unit you are doing pretty good! Much better than when I play!

By the way, what "bug" (in the game system?) are you referring to?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Petey
If the only mistake you made is destroying a bridge in error with a recon unit you are doing pretty good! Much better than when I play!

I agree Petey, John is doing a really great job handling his units. I get to watch the replay and I can testify that none of his movements
are wasted effort. I'm really impressed.

ORIGINAL: Petey
By the way, what "bug" (in the game system?) are you referring to?

I was going to let John explain it to you but I'm pretty sure that the Bug that John is refering to is the ignore losses bug. This is where,
when you assign a unit to combat there is a check for RBC's and that check is skipped for ignore losses units. They actually stand their
ground and defend to the last man. Or they seem to most of the time. John may have been refering to something else entirely though.

This is some of the losses at the beginning of turn 9:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how the air war is going:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a closeup of the Leningrad area now:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a closeup of the south end of the Stalin Line down south. So far so good. I really wasn't expecting them to hold very long.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a closeup of John's newly captured port. He's expanding away from the port after having sailed another division into the area.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a movie showing turns 7, 8, and 9:

[Josh]

It's gonna be exciting to see what John is going to do with your line West of Smolensk. It looks rather solid.