Once more onto the breach, my friends... Fite 2 SolInvictus202 vs Ammann

[Ammann]

Turn 4

Wheels must roll .... and they also roll the reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Armored Division is on the rise durch's Baltic States,
to come up against this and ever convert a few hexes we will send you our partisan unit to the southwest ....
meet is not a problem, but we can not convert hex with this unit, those are things that can not ancestral, well you can not change.



All enemies in Riga were turned off and you could maintain the city would have been in that round our .... but if it is not,
because the Russians were able to light their explosives still stands in the urban area not only bridge more and unfortunately we did not have enough movement points pioneers on site.



Our advance troops reach the Russian positions in front of Minsk, an attack that round but we did not, here we are next round see what to do.



It was previously assumed in the Army High Command of the Russian Stalin Line had always occupied, but that's probably not the case, just north of Shepetovka is a large gap in the position
and accurately characterized, we will send our mobile formations and afterwards to circumvent the infantry divisions to the Russians and starve.



The Romanian leadership has now to participate in combat on the Eastern Front to the stolen Bessarabia to get actively committed back.
Leaving behind 6 full-fledged divisions in the home country (this is a house rule) exceed the Romanians together with their German brothers in arms the border and go on the attack.



The enemy aircraft losses decrease and ours rise in proportion to the launch digits sharply.
This is due to the fact that the Russians slowly recovering from his initial shock, our squadrons by the permanent missions to the limit and it is these were just a few enemy counter for us to reach.




Any spelling and grammatical errors may keep them[:D]

[MAurelius]

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Just wanted to drop you a quick note from my side as well:


I believe it is quite obvious why the Russian side is a bit more cautious posting detailed maps of its new positions after the initial onslaught....
This is one of the major restrictions of an AAR that includes both sides....

Rest assured however that I am preparing maps for every turn - and eventually i will post them... I have just sent my turn 4 back to my opponent - so the game is coming along nicely....
I believe once we reach turn 5 or 6 I can safely start showing pictures of the "earlier" turns... the main problem is simply to avoid giving my opponent any idea of my MLR...it's the one thing standing between the German army and the rest of Russia




on a more general note:

Playing this monster scenario for the first time is a huge undertaking - and unlike Fite1 it is much more complex for the Russian player.... even FINDING the units that belong to one army (direct in-game formations are only shown on a corps level) is a nightmare - and utterly impossible without the beautiful OOB sent to us by the designers - especially since not all the units are depicted historically due to balance and other issues...


The first few turns have been marked by utter defeat - the cancellation of the initial plan of "taking the fight to the enemy" - and most of all - lots and lots of shocked troops....
one turn 1 and 2 almost all of my front line troops were unable to move at all....

I have recently started a game as the Germans and there my opponent has had no issues withdrawing lots of troops from the frontline in turn 1 - simply because he had more luck than me when it came to "which troops were shocked".... oh well....



one issue that has really come up was the ridiculous interdiction... neither me or my "Russian" opponent have complaint about the intensity... it's rather the "range" that is a bit off.... because trains are being attack far east of Moscow and some even in the Caucasus.... not quite realistic...

I suppose it has to do with the maximum range of the Ju88 etc... but still... Germans did not attack trains in the first week of the war far east of Moscow - that much is certain




apart from that it is simply a highly addictive and beautifully created scenario which finally presents a proper challenge for both players....


currently STAVKA is working on forming a proper MLR angled on natural terrain obstacles and other useful positions... ahead of this army we have positioned troops in strategically important towns and villages, that provide the defenders with some better terrain to slow the enemy down...

unlike the initial plan we decided NOT to defend the Stalin-line - simply due to the fact that soooo many units of the Russian army have values of "1 1" - especially the Mech Corps are utterly useless - and can , IMO, only be used in conjuction with other units in defensive lines.... the few "better" units the Russian army has been able to save from the initial slaughter of turn 1 and 2 have been placed, or are currently being maneuvered into the most important positions along the MLR....

only contact with the enemy in these prepared positions will show us if the Russian army has ANY chance of defending any position in 41... currently I am not so sure - but then again the values of the unit counters quickly increase when they reach "F" status.... so I am not entirely without hope when it comes to holding certain towns....


as described in the manual there are certain KEY TOWNS that if taken by a certain turn, provide the German player with more turns of 150 shock - most of these towns are easily captured within this limit: like Riga or Lvov by turn 6 (my opponent will take it by turn 5) or Kiev by turn 24 !!! (should be taken LONG before that)

but there are some other towns that could prove DIFFICULT for the German player to capture within the allotted time - and these are the towns we intend to defend to the last - cause if we can prevent the German player from getting another boost of 150 shock - and keep him at 120.. well.. BIG DIFFERENCE!

so much for my plans and strategies - anything further will have to wait, unfortunately - because the enemy is reading this as well

[Cfant]

Well, MAurelius, the opponent you mentioned had to find out, that his troops were mainly shocked on turn 2. So it was no escape for a lot of them [;)]

@shock: As I understand it, the 150-shock is only for one turn. If you pass the check on turn 6, you have shock 150 on turn 7, going back to 120 on turn 8 [:)]

[Ammann]

Turn 5....07.06.1941

So here is the first replenishment position in space Riga's.
The first picture is from the end of Round 4 and the second at the beginning of round 5, one can see beautiful as the situation improves between rounds ...
... but we later in HKL not know what to do with all the supplies goods will not happen to us, we make no illusions that it will probably not be so generous.





While Riga has been declared a stage and the first Fronttheater occur we will send some quick Associations forward around the area so explore
in the following round our units are then easier to have suffered during the advance and no increased movement cost and power losses.



The city of Minsk should already be next round completely enclosed, then we will find that the city itself is also defend or not.
It would be nice of course if we get the railway line as soon as possible so freely supplies and troop transports roll freely.



The farce of the so-called Stalin Line is evident several motorized units have already passed through the gaping hole and the education department of The Empire
is already on the outskirts of Zhitomir which is defend only by an infantry regiment.
The rest of the Stalin line we need to eliminate, of course, because we can not get around it unfortunately, but that is already in progress and next round, the gap should be even larger.



Then of course it is not far to Kiev, but, according to our findings, the field positions have been sighted in the run-up to the city.
It is therefore to be assumed that 99% of Russians along the red dashed line relate its positions and will give us neatly scale,
a frontal attack us should therefore be costly, the better alternative would certainly be a circumvention of the fortified positions on both sides of the city on the Dnieper River.



The air battles in the entire airspace slack off and meanwhile we fly now increasingly on lockdown.
20 own losses of about 35-40 machines are hostile towards.

[MAurelius]

just a quick note from the "Russian" side:

I am the reason for the lack of new reports - my opponent sent me his turn before Christmas - but due to several reasons - including health issues and the usual "holiday" delays I was unable to return it until about a week ago - but if all goes well we are back on track

I do hope that the enemy soon catches up with my MLR - so that I can finally start posting pictures of the Russian front