tyronec (Axis) vs Grognard1812. Grognard welcome.

[DeletedUser1769703214]

ORIGINAL: Grognard1812

Situation at the end of GT 22 in the Gorky area. Two more snow turns before the blizzard turns start.

Very nice . You have the German entrenchment levels screen shots by chance?



****Your units look to be in good shape too from the screen shots. The entrenchment level and depth of entrenchment for the Germans is going to tell us a great deal. Just make sure you have built extra RR engineers to repair the RR doing the blizzard turns. I always put mine in Stavka and they always do a really nice job of deployment for them *****

[Crackaces]

Just to say HLYA I requested the fort levels off .. only that I could not assess what kinds of units were surrounded

[Grognard1812]

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: Grognard1812

Situation at the end of GT 22 in the Gorky area. Two more snow turns before the blizzard turns start.

Very nice . You have the German entrenchment levels screen shots by chance?



****Your units look to be in good shape too from the screen shots. The entrenchment level and depth of entrenchment for the Germans is going to tell us a great deal. Just make sure you have built extra RR engineers to repair the RR doing the blizzard turns. I always put mine in Stavka and they always do a really nice job of deployment for them *****

I don't have any screen shots from GT 22 with entrenchment levels but I did take some screen shots from GT 23 with
entrenchment levels of the Gorky and Rostov area. I will post them once I receive GT 24 from Tyronec.
I have a total of 10 RR construction brigades attached to STAVKA, with STAVKA being south of Gorky.
Do you think 10 is enough? Thank-you for the advice.

[DeletedUser1769703214]

ORIGINAL: Grognard1812

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: Grognard1812

Situation at the end of GT 22 in the Gorky area. Two more snow turns before the blizzard turns start.

Very nice . You have the German entrenchment levels screen shots by chance?



****Your units look to be in good shape too from the screen shots. The entrenchment level and depth of entrenchment for the Germans is going to tell us a great deal. Just make sure you have built extra RR engineers to repair the RR doing the blizzard turns. I always put mine in Stavka and they always do a really nice job of deployment for them *****

I don't have any screen shots from GT 22 with entrenchment levels but I did take some screen shots from GT 23 with
entrenchment levels of the Gorky and Rostov area. I will post them once I receive GT 24 from Tyronec.
I have a total of 10 RR construction brigades attached to STAVKA, with STAVKA being south of Gorky.
Do you think 10 is enough? Thank-you for the advice.

Thank you. Full blizzard is really tough if the German isn't prepared for it & I was just curious to see what the German had planned is all . So you don't have to worry since your Winter offense is coming soon.

I just like putting the RR construction workers in Stavka since Stavka will send them all over the map. I'm sure others probably have a better take where to place them. But I think 10 should be enough, just look at where you are going to be pushin and guesstimate what you may need. That is just my 2 cents since I'm really not that good of a Soviet player.

Again thank you both for a interesting game and more to come.

[Balou]

ORIGINAL: Grognard1812

Situation at the end of GT 22 in the Gorky area. Two more snow turns before the blizzard turns start.

The Gorky Episode could provide even more fun than Tambov. Mud lasts only 4 turns, but Blizzard 12 turns.

[Telemecus]

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
Thank you. Full blizzard is really tough if the German isn't prepared for it & I was just curious to see what the German had planned is all . So you don't have to worry since your Winter offense is coming soon.

Curious what preparations would you expect to see at this point?

The Soviet team in the 2by3+ team game are looking for a new commander. It is a much lower commitment than going solo. A great way for a beginner to do their first game against others. And if you are an old hand come and show us your stuff. If you would like to join the team do post here or on any of the games other threads, or feel free to message Neogodhobo or myself.

[tyronec]

T23
Snow as predicted and the same due for next turn.

In the North we the Soviets have partially surrounded the lead panzer units. We make a few attacks to tidy up the lines and make it easier to withdraw next turn.

Voronezh area we make a small pocket but are not able to seal it properly. Set up to make an attack on Litebsk next turn though it may be risky to carry it out with probable blizzard the following turn.

Do some air resupply, no interception from the Soviets despite all their shiny new capitalist aircraft.

[DeletedUser1769703214]

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
Thank you. Full blizzard is really tough if the German isn't prepared for it & I was just curious to see what the German had planned is all . So you don't have to worry since your Winter offense is coming soon.

Curious what preparations would you expect to see at this point?

The Soviet team in the 2by3+ team game are looking for a new commander. It is a much lower commitment than going solo. A great way for a beginner to do their first game against others. And if you are an old hand come and show us your stuff. If you would like to join the team do post here or on any of the games other threads, or feel free to message Neogodhobo or myself.

By the way this is worded it sounds like you have all the intel you need if you were playing. Im just mot as good as others on this forum. I on the other hand like to see what defense in depth there is if any. Imo ALL intelligence is worthwhile.

[Telemecus]

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
Thank you. Full blizzard is really tough if the German isn't prepared for it & I was just curious to see what the German had planned is all . So you don't have to worry since your Winter offense is coming soon.

Curious what preparations would you expect to see at this point?

The Soviet team in the 2by3+ team game are looking for a new commander. It is a much lower commitment than going solo. A great way for a beginner to do their first game against others. And if you are an old hand come and show us your stuff. If you would like to join the team do post here or on any of the games other threads, or feel free to message Neogodhobo or myself.

By the way this is worded it sounds like you have all the intel you need if you were playing. Im just mot as good as others on this forum. I on the other hand like to see what defense in depth there is if any. Imo ALL intelligence is worthwhile.

Ahh. TBH I have been having this debate with others in the team game of what blizzard preparations we should be doing. Seems to be quite a mix of ideas without one predominating. So was looking for other viewpoints.

[DeletedUser1769703214]

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: Telemecus



Curious what preparations would you expect to see at this point?

The Soviet team in the 2by3+ team game are looking for a new commander. It is a much lower commitment than going solo. A great way for a beginner to do their first game against others. And if you are an old hand come and show us your stuff. If you would like to join the team do post here or on any of the games other threads, or feel free to message Neogodhobo or myself.

By the way this is worded it sounds like you have all the intel you need if you were playing. Im just mot as good as others on this forum. I on the other hand like to see what defense in depth there is if any. Imo ALL intelligence is worthwhile.

Ahh. TBH I have been having this debate with others in the team game of what blizzard preparations we should be doing. Seems to be quite a mix of ideas without one predominating. So was looking for other viewpoints.

Then I misunderstood how you were saying it. I do that often. In full blizzard the Germans need to be cognitive of their losses and defense. Making sure that their units were topped off with replacements and not fatigued to hell going into the first few Blizzard turns because by the 2nd blizzard turn the effects hit full force as we know. Because you defiantly don't want to have divisions low on TOE shatter or route unnecessarily in later Blizzard turns. Key points in the front can be defended such as key railroad junctions to keep the Soviet at bay on supply is a good Strat. But at the same time the Germans imo should have built, at a minimum level one forts where they are going to hold at all costs in the rear and be prepared. A good recon a few turns before blizzard to see these entrenchment levels can give a good overview of what the Germans have planned and the Soviets can react accordingly. Just my 32,524 foot view of things & I'm sure others have better views than mine but that is how I look at things.

[STEF78]

WOW.... very agressive play from the axis side! trying a breakthough to Gorky in november 1941!

blizzard should be very interesting!

[DeletedUser1769703214]

ORIGINAL: STEF78

WOW.... very agressive play from the axis side! trying a breakthough to Gorky in november 1941!

blizzard should be very interesting!

I agree with you Stef . I agree.

I know Gronard is a very good player too. So two excellent players for the Blizzard is going to be really interesting. I really am looking forward to the next turns on this one :- }. Plus the suspense of early April 42 for the sudden death too. I hope it will last.

[Grognard1812]

Soviet GT 23

Snow in all weather zones, with snow forecast next turn.

One more turn until the Soviet Winter counter-offensive starts.

Screenshot of the Rostov area after conducting Recon and unit bombing missions. The Axis has set up significant
defenses with deep defensive belts. The recapture of Stalino / Makeevka / Gorlovka is a major objective
of the Soviet winter offensive. The Soviet army has a tough battle ahead, STAVKA is ready.

[Grognard1812]

Screenshot of the Voronezh area. The major Axis defense is near the city of Voronezh.

[Grognard1812]

East of Moscow if the Panzer units remain in their present position there is a potential for a pocket to be
formed during the Soviet winter counter-offensive.

[DeletedUser1769703214]

ORIGINAL: Grognard1812

Soviet GT 23

Snow in all weather zones, with snow forecast next turn.

One more turn until the Soviet Winter counter-offensive starts.

Screenshot of the Rostov area after conducting Recon and unit bombing missions. The Axis has set up significant
defenses with deep defensive belts. The recapture of Stalino / Makeevka / Gorlovka is a major objective
of the Soviet winter offensive. The Soviet army has a tough battle ahead, STAVKA is ready.

Your Trek towards the Stalino tri cities could run into a snag with river and freezing. Your jump off date may not be the first week of the blizzard.

The Germans have a good looking defense brewing down here.

[tyronec]

WOW.... very agressive play from the axis side! trying a breakthough to Gorky in november 1941!

Not really, just wrecking some railway...

T24
Mud in the south. Blizzard due everywhere next turn.

Quiet move.
AGN withdraws from the salient and gets all the panzers back.
AGC cleans out Litebsk and gains a few hexes further north, routing several units in the process. These attacks mean am not quite organised for the pending counter attack but don't think anything is too exposed and will be doing more shuffling around next turn.
AGS continues to dig in.

I spend 2 or 300 of APs, moving Romanian armies out of AGS, switching some armies around and structuring many of the front line defensive corps so that they have 3 infantry and one armour division each.

[John B.]

We are holding our breath!

[Nix77]

The CVs on Soviet side seem quite impressive, seems like Grognard has delivered a healthy and big Red Army for the winter

On the other hand, Tyronec has miles of space to keep that big mass of rifle divisions at distance. It's going to be an interesting winter for sure!

Don won't be frozen on the blizzard turn, so yes, the southern attack will be delayed by a week.

[Grognard1812]

Soviet GT 24

Snow in the North and Central weather zones with mud in the Southern zone. Next turn is the first turn of blizzard.

As of GT 24 the Soviet army has lost 2.5 million men. Of the 4 most important cities the Soviets have lost
Moscow and Leningrad but held on to Voronezh and Rostov. Presently the Axis have a total of 247 victory points with
the capture of Lipetsk this turn, a city 5 hexes north of Voronezh. Each city is 1 VP and each light urban
city is 3 VP.

As we are playing a sudden death campaign game, during the winter counter-offensive the Soviet army must
recapture 6 victory points before April 1942. If Tyronec has 242 or more victory points on the first week
of April 1942 he wins a sudden death victory.