is it possible to hold the south?!

[ryan1488]

playing ai on normal slow. cant for the life of me hold Rostov!

has anyone been able to keep it?

[Vic]

The key to a succesfull defense of the south imo is holding the Dnjepr river line (which is the best defensible line) at least partially and moving some regular reinforcement armies from center front to southern front.

If the Dnjepr line gets breached and you only have conscript armies to hold the line you'll indeed be in a bit of a fix.

Best wishes,
Vic

[ryan1488]

I activated the southern defenses and transferred some army's but still no luck. Maybe I need to learn the game better.

I find that the northern front always sends their panzers south. Makes holding lenningrad very easy.

The center can be touch and go at times but I've always been able to hold it.

[ChuckBerger]

Against the AI it is possible to hold the Dniepr, but it's hard and I think usually the AI will get across somewhere, especially on higher difficulty levels. It certainly helps if you can (a) extricate most of your frontier armies; (b) bleed the AI hard at Odessa and Kiev; and (c) divert 2 regular army divisions from AGC.

In my experience, the best defence in AGS is to crush the German AI in AGC and AGN, then swing south to take Kiev behind his back!

Against a competent human, I don't think it is possible to hold the Dniepr. Of course you can delay there for a while, but the Russian cause in AGS is nearly hopeless against a good opponent. The Axis are far stronger in AGS than they were historically, especially given they have something like 15 Axis Allied divisions as active combat formations that weren't at their disposal for most of 1941 in real life. I really think devs should do something about that.