Field Marshal von Fogger vs Comrade Marshal Fulkerson

[fogger]

At the narva river the bridgehead is expanding. It will interesting to see what Larry does here this turn.

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Over at the Svir river I am about to breakout unless larry has some units hidding.

[fogger]

After I captured Murmansk it had been my plan to advance to the bridge at 156,32 and dig in and then turn the AO into a back water. However Larry attacked and my forces were held up at 130,32. I then attacked the port at 168,28 which I only just captured my the skin of my teeth and with a comdo drop at 164,29 cut Larry's supply lines. He then reacted to the port capture by moving some of the supporting units that had been holding up my forces. During this turn I was able to destroy 1 inf div in detail and have been pushing the tank div back. larry now has to either cut his losses and withdraw to the bridge at 156,32 or he can try to move forward to the bridge at 148,32 and risk being overrun by my advancing forces.

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inf losses todate

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tank losses

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air losses

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the northern part of the front lines now:

[larryfulkerson]

Another view of the north front lines. The lines near the gap have been broken and John's units are pouring through so now all my stuff
near Pskov are in trouble. I'm going to have to see if I can't pull those guys to the east and set up another new front line where the
double blue lines are. Those guys defending Leningrad are just going to fend for themselves. They should be able to hold out for
another four turns I'm guessing.

[larryfulkerson]

The front lines in the middle are relatively stable. Haven't changed much in the last couple of turns.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the south part of the front lines. The riverbank is where a lot of killing is taking place. Savage fighting and the cost is climbing.
I've got blockers I can rail into that AO but they would just get pushed backwards. I've got to start building stacks of units to give me
enough strength to hold the hex and I don't quite have enough units to do that everywhere.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a closeup of the Kiev area and the site of so much savage fighting.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a closeup of the Leningrad area where John is breaking through slowly. He's pushing my guys aside and my roadblocks aren't
slowing him down all that much.

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Another view of the north front lines. The lines near the gap have been broken and John's units are pouring through so now all my stuff
near Pskov are in trouble. I'm going to have to see if I can't pull those guys to the east and set up another new front line where the
double blue lines are. Those guys defending Leningrad are just going to fend for themselves. They should be able to hold out for
another four turns I'm guessing.

Hm... why so? Why don't you fall back to the river Luga and the swamps south of Lake Ilmen?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what it looks like to the east of Leningrad in the trees. John has blown a path through my blockers and is in the process of
pouring all his guys through the gap. I suppose he's going to approach Leningrad from the east as well.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all the guys I got this turn. Most of them, well, a lot of them, are cherry red.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Telumar

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
Another view of the north front lines. The lines near the gap have been broken and John's units
are pouring through so now all my stuff near Pskov are in trouble. I'm going to have to see if I
can't pull those guys to the east and set up another new front line where the double blue lines are.
Those guys defending Leningrad are just going to fend for themselves. They should be able to
hold out for another four turns I'm guessing.

Hm... why so? Why don't you fall back to the river Luga and the swamps south of Lake Ilmen?

Hey, that's a better idea. I like that a lot. I'll do that. Thanks for your input my friend.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some of the losses so far. The number of rifle squads on hand is going to drop when John gets around to doing all the mop up
that is pending. There's lots of isolated divisions out there that he hasn't killed yet. I expect the number on hand to drop from 17K to
about 10K or so by Turn 30.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how the air war is going. I think the tide is beginning to turn. It's costing me losses but according to the AS meter I've got a tiny
bit more AS than John does. But that's just a number probably just an average number and doesn't reflect the local AS in any given
locale on the map. I wish there was some way we could get TOAW to show us the fighter arcs and the bomber arcs separately. The
way it is now you get the arc of everybody or just one dude and that's semi-helpful at best. IMHO.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all the stuff I'm supposed to get next turn. A whole lot of it is reconstituted so I expect those to be cherry red. I'm torn between
moving them when they are red and cost less to move, or letting them rest first before I move them. I think moving them first when they
are still red might delay the refit process somehow but I have no proof of that.

[larryfulkerson]

I think I have determined that 151,22 has no discernable supply and John vacated the hex he had captured so I moved a cherry-red fort
into that hex. I think John wasn't getting any supply out of 168,28 or maybe the great big group of my dudes scared him or something.
Either way I need to baracade the railway somehow.