Once more into the Breech with D21

[larryfulkerson]

Meanwhile down south in the Bessarabia area the Axis forces are clearing out the area between the two rivers and the
Romanians are doing a lot to help the effort. I'm thinking the mop up operations will be done in a couple of turns.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got a fighter unit within range of a Soviet airfield that has some "light bomber" equipment there and I'm thinking
it's a good time for an airfield strike because of the disparity between the air shock levels of the two sides. I'm
like 130 approx. and the Soviets are like 60 or so. I should be able to clean up.

[larryfulkerson]

The air losses meter says that the AS balance is like 54 to 3 in my favor so I thought I'd look into alternate missions
for some of the fighters and I notice that the ME-109 has a pretty good AT value and I'd like to put that to good use
tank plinking if I can do it under fighter air cover. Using fighters as direct interdiction is one of my favorite
things. I like to go after the tanks, mechanized units, arty, and HQ's in that order.

[larryfulkerson]

The 2d-large map was too big to upload so I had to shrink it down to this tiny one.

[larryfulkerson]

And here's Kiev to Odessa. I'm clearing the area between the rivers and pushing the Soviets to the southeast and the
area next to Odessa is clear of enemy troops, seemingly, so I should be getting some units into position around Odessa
soon.

[larryfulkerson]

This is my very first 2D-Huge view picture and it shows that there's two aircraft units parked at two of the airfields
near Berlin and the reasons they are here is to get their annuals out of the way, they were coming due, and the northmost
one turned up yellow-health in the field and I investigated and found it down to less than half the planes they were
allowed so I flew them here last turn and they have gained a plane replacement already, that was soon, and the southmost
one went below 50% readiness out in the field and the crew had never been to Berlin before and wanted to go so they could
go downtown window shopping and maybe take in a movie.

[larryfulkerson]

Three of the Finnish formations became active this turn and they have already started the pushing and shoving.

[TPOO]

Hi Larry
I see I have an error. The Bulgarians are not supposed to activate unless you capture Sevastopol before Dec 3rd 1941. I will have to fix that. Leave those units in Bulgaria unless you can achieve that capture. I will have to debug and find out which event is out of place Thanks

[larryfulkerson]

In the area between the rivers I've got the Romanians, and the Slovik's and prior to this post
the Bulgarians. I've since moved the Bulgarians to the northern track just to separate the
Axis Minor Allies a bit. FITE had a house rule that no Axis minors may stack with another
national entity besides their own and I'm observing that rule here. There's another house rule
that says that no two Axis minors may cooperate in an attack. You can have different nations
adjacent but they can't both attack simultaneously. I'm observing those rules here too.

Every once in a while I'll run into a rough spot but for the most part it's just moving south
trying to find more Soviet targets.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: TPOO
Hi Larry
I see I have an error. The Bulgarians are not supposed to activate unless you capture Sevastopol before Dec 3rd 1941. I will have to fix that. Leave those units in Bulgaria unless you can achieve that capture. I will have to debug and find out which event is out of place Thanks

I was wondering about the Bulgarians. I hadn't seen them in any prior game of D21. Ever. So now
I have to google Bulgaria to see if I can't find it and move them there. Okay Dokie. Good hunting
on that error. It may be an event triggered too soon or something simple like that.

[larryfulkerson]

I Googled Bulgaria and got a map that says that Sofia is the capitol so I guess I'll move 'em to Sofia.

[larryfulkerson]

I was checking my units just now, at random just to make sure everything is okie dokie and I've found one of my RR arty
units is missing one of it's tubes and I looked it up to see how many are on hand and there's none but I'm going to make
one in turn 205 ad that will give me 2 for the entire German Army. I can't wait.

[TPOO]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

In the area between the rivers I've got the Romanians, and the Slovik's and prior to this post
the Bulgarians. I've since moved the Bulgarians to the northern track just to separate the
Axis Minor Allies a bit. FITE had a house rule that no Axis minors may stack with another
national entity besides their own and I'm observing that rule here. There's another house rule
that says that no two Axis minors may cooperate in an attack. You can have different nations
adjacent but they can't both attack simultaneously. I'm observing those rules here too.

Every once in a while I'll run into a rough spot but for the most part it's just moving south
trying to find more Soviet targets.

The house rules are the ones from the original FITE. I also like to only use the Rumanians to capture Odessa as that was historical, although there is no house rule in effect for that.

[TPOO]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: TPOO
Hi Larry
I see I have an error. The Bulgarians are not supposed to activate unless you capture Sevastopol before Dec 3rd 1941. I will have to fix that. Leave those units in Bulgaria unless you can achieve that capture. I will have to debug and find out which event is out of place Thanks

I was wondering about the Bulgarians. I hadn't seen them in any prior game of D21. Ever. So now
I have to google Bulgaria to see if I can't find it and move them there. Okay Dokie. Good hunting
on that error. It may be an event triggered too soon or something simple like that.

I have found the issue and will try to upload a fixed file. It is not in the events, the formations for the Bulgarians were set to manual instead of static and that triggered them on turn 1. As long as you just leave them in Bulgaria it will not affect game play.

[larryfulkerson]

The house rules are the ones from the original FITE. I also like to only use the Rumanians to capture Odessa
as that was historical, although there is no house rule in effect for that.

I like that rule. I like that rule so much that that's what I've been doing for the past couple of games. It's like
an unwritten rule.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: TPOO

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: TPOO
Hi Larry
I see I have an error. The Bulgarians are not supposed to activate unless you capture Sevastopol before Dec 3rd 1941. I will have to fix that. Leave those units in Bulgaria unless you can achieve that capture. I will have to debug and find out which event is out of place Thanks

I was wondering about the Bulgarians. I hadn't seen them in any prior game of D21. Ever. So now
I have to google Bulgaria to see if I can't find it and move them there. Okay Dokie. Good hunting
on that error. It may be an event triggered too soon or something simple like that.

I have found the issue and will try to upload a fixed file. It is not in the events, the formations for the Bulgarians were set to manual instead of static and that triggered them on turn 1. As long as you just leave them in Bulgaria it will not affect game play.

I'll do it. Thanks for the fast service. Did you want to wait for some more possible bugs before you release an
update to the scenario?

[TPOO]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: TPOO

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I was wondering about the Bulgarians. I hadn't seen them in any prior game of D21. Ever. So now
I have to google Bulgaria to see if I can't find it and move them there. Okay Dokie. Good hunting
on that error. It may be an event triggered too soon or something simple like that.

I have found the issue and will try to upload a fixed file. It is not in the events, the formations for the Bulgarians were set to manual instead of static and that triggered them on turn 1. As long as you just leave them in Bulgaria it will not affect game play.

I'll do it. Thanks for the fast service. Did you want to wait for some more possible bugs before you release an
update to the scenario?

That is probably best. I am also running a concurrent game checking for stuff to change. Anything that is being mentioned on the other thread I am trying to incorporate. If anyone needs a copy of the updated scenario file they can message me and I will send it to them for now.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the front lines in T8 before I've moved anybody.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Orsha area right now. My units are arriving from the west and finding the location largely lightly defended.
Not the fortress I was expecting. Maybe the Soviet units are on their way, they just aren't here yet. Probably.

[larryfulkerson]

There are well known places along the Dneper river such as Pskov and Dagavpils and Orsha and Gomel and Mogilev etc. and
my troops just captured Gomel which is a key river crossing and is usually well fought over. I found it undefended and
walked in and took over. I'm seeing a lot of territory that seemingly has no Soviet units present. We shall see.