Once more into the Breech with D21

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines in T46 before I've moved anybody besides the paratroopers.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some men of the 206th Infantry Division tracking down and killing a Soviet sniper in a wheatfield on the
perimeter of a rest camp near Novadrod. He had infiltrated through the field during the night and was taking shots
at the troops in the camp so something had to be done and the security forces were alerted. A six hour hunt finally
comes to a close.

[larryfulkerson]

A machinegun team and one element of the security detail assigned to them are preparing
their positions prior to taking part in a defensive mission near Kholm. They are overlooking
a road that passes about 150 yards to their front and they are to interdict movement of
Soviet units along the road. They haven't seen any Soviets durng the three hours they have
been in place. They will be relieved by another team sometime near midnight.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the supply situation in an area to the NE of the Crimea right now. I've gone just about as far as
I can go in the deep south because the supply level is too poor to operate down there.

EDIT: I think I'll review the RR engineer priorities.

[larryfulkerson]

I just had a unit spawn at Berlin and it's untried, the first untried unit I've
had in the game so far. It's starting proficiency is 68 which isn't all that bad
but it's lower than I was hoping for. Maybe it'll increase in combat the first
time.

It's missing some of it's 37mm AT Guns and I looked it up and discovered that there's
not a lot of them on hand and I'm not making great lot of them. So that may be all
that it ever receives. I'm going to build less than 280 more of them.

I thought I'd let it rest some in Berlin before I throw it into the field.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: DanNeely
A quick tip, if you use Alt+PrintScreen instead of just Print Screen to capture
screenshots it only takes a shot of the current application not the entire desktop;
leaving out things like your taskbar and whatever's behind your current app if
its not maximized.

Thanks for this tip. I found it in another thread but it applies here too.

[larryfulkerson]

The Soviets just now got two turns in a row and my artillery units got a workout.
The front lines collapsed in several spots and there's weak spots all over the
lines up and down. And we're still in November...the Winter offensive hssn't even
begun yet. I'm tempted to pull back to better supply areas.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T47 front lines before I have moved anybody. As you can see there's been
several Soviet breakthroughs and lots of weak spots and most of the progress is
being made in the south. I've got a few units trapped behind the lines trying to
get a surround going in last turn's adventures. I've been breaking down the divisions
into regiments and having them stand in the front lines but it's obviously not working.
I have to straighten out the front lines anyway, maybe I should pull back and shorten
the lines to free up enough units to make a solid front line with a proper reserve.

[larryfulkerson]

This group of three columns are embarked Bulgarian units and I have to decide
whether or not to send them to the fighting to the east and possibly get mixed
up with the Rumanians or send them to Sevastopol to finish the takedown of the
port and do some mop up and send the Rumanians that are there now to the fighting
going on to the east. The advantage of sending the Bulgarians to the east now
is that they are relatively fresh having just sat out the war at Sophia for 46
turns in a row. They might actually make a grand difference on the front lines
but what I'd actually like to do, now that I think about it is to get the Rumanians
out of the Crimea entirely and let the Bulgarians handle things in the Sevastopol
area. Okay, that's what I'll do then.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm trying to get organized so that the fighters are spaced from north to south in
OOB order in order for me to get some idea of how often I need to rotate them in and
out of the fighting for rest and refit. This is the first in OOB order and he's the
opposite of cherry red. Mobile and agile. Supple and trim. I've got him set to
three dots because of the advantage I have in air shock values and because he's got
just all the planes that will fit in the squadron. The ones that are low on planes
get put on one-dot settings. Most of the fighters are Me-109's and that's about the
best fighter the Axis gets for a while. I have about 150+ on hand and I'll be
making them for another 150 turns or so and less than half of them have been shot
down so far. Winter is coming so I'm thinking of evacuating all the planes to the
Berlin area for all the good they might do on the front lines. Except for some of
the fighters....I'd still like a potential aerial umbrella if possible.

I'm going to move OKH to Minsk to get it away from the fighting ( if I was opposing
Brian OKH wouldn't be close to the front as it's too prone to get bombed ) and set
up a set of operational airfields there adjacent to one hex so I can cheer up more
than one unit at a time. And I may as well repair the rail to get there from the
front lines so I can make it a rest camp for the LCU's too.

No, wait, I just got a decrease in the rail cap. so that might not be a good idea.
Right now the Bulgarians are embarked but if they weren't I'd have 4800 for a rail
cap and that's not much. Maybe four Infantry Divisions. The Panzers might not get
more than a couple of their tanks loaded at a time. The rest camps will have to be
close to the front to work right. I'll park the local reserves at the rest camps.

[TPOO]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

This group of three columns are embarked Bulgarian units and I have to decide
whether or not to send them to the fighting to the east and possibly get mixed
up with the Rumanians or send them to Sevastopol to finish the takedown of the
port and do some mop up and send the Rumanians that are there now to the fighting
going on to the east. The advantage of sending the Bulgarians to the east now
is that they are relatively fresh having just sat out the war at Sophia for 46
turns in a row. They might actually make a grand difference on the front lines
but what I'd actually like to do, now that I think about it is to get the Rumanians
out of the Crimea entirely and let the Bulgarians handle things in the Sevastopol
area. Okay, that's what I'll do then.

Remember the Bulgarians will not activate unless you capture the Sevastopol port on this turn so can cannot be used unless that happens. On the corrected version uploaded with the patch the Bulgarians will not activate if Sevastopol is captured after 11/30 turn.

[DanNeely]

ORIGINAL: TPOO

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

This group of three columns are embarked Bulgarian units and I have to decide
whether or not to send them to the fighting to the east and possibly get mixed
up with the Rumanians or send them to Sevastopol to finish the takedown of the
port and do some mop up and send the Rumanians that are there now to the fighting
going on to the east. The advantage of sending the Bulgarians to the east now
is that they are relatively fresh having just sat out the war at Sophia for 46
turns in a row. They might actually make a grand difference on the front lines
but what I'd actually like to do, now that I think about it is to get the Rumanians
out of the Crimea entirely and let the Bulgarians handle things in the Sevastopol
area. Okay, that's what I'll do then.

Remember the Bulgarians will not activate unless you capture the Sevastopol port on this turn so can cannot be used unless that happens. On the corrected version uploaded with the patch the Bulgarians will not activate if Sevastopol is captured after 11/30 turn.

Larry Paradropped behind the forts to grab the port itself a turn or two ago. I'm waiting to see if the mobile divisions in that pocket wipe them out before he can relieve them.

[larryfulkerson]

Remember the Bulgarians will not activate unless you capture the Sevastopol port on this turn so can cannot be used unless that happens. On the corrected version uploaded with the patch the Bulgarians will not activate if Sevastopol is captured after 11/30 turn.

Yeah, like DanNeely said, I dropped some paratroops into an empty hex and took the port previously and the next turn I
got a news screen that the Bulgarians were freed and so I moved them from Sophia to where they are now. They are sitting
on a railhead as far into Russia as they can go right now.

[TPOO]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Remember the Bulgarians will not activate unless you capture the Sevastopol port on this turn so can cannot be used unless that happens. On the corrected version uploaded with the patch the Bulgarians will not activate if Sevastopol is captured after 11/30 turn.

Yeah, like DanNeely said, I dropped some paratroops into an empty hex and took the port previously and the next turn I
got a news screen that the Bulgarians were freed and so I moved them from Sophia to where they are now. They are sitting
on a railhead as far into Russia as they can go right now.

Well that is my fault then. I put the wrong hex in the event as it was intended to take out the gun in the city of Sevastopol in order to trigger. Dropping a paratrooper to trigger the event was not my intent. My bad. I will have to fix it.

[larryfulkerson]

In some places on the front line the supply is adequate but there's sections of the
front line that I have no business moving units into. They will drive in there and
run out of gas and then have massive troubles getting back to better supply. I feel
like I'm fighting too far forward in places.

Having the Soviets have two turns in a row in which they unleashed their units for
three-dot attacks. I saw at least a dozen Soviet units evaporate. My arty is shot
now. I'm sending them to the rear to refill their magazines. I've been setting up
some rest camps in the rear, sometimes far in the rear to areas of better supply.

I've still got a few units that are still whole but most of the divisions are divided
now and I feel a lot more comfortable about the front lines. I've pulled at least
one Panzer division out of the line to rest and refit and serve as the strategic
reserve for right now. The division is in rough shape and needs at least four turns
of rest to get back in the green. I don't like putting orange or red units in the
lines.

I received another air unit at Berlin, it re-spawned in a deep red state so it must
have been shot down. It was a bomber unit. I don't have a good feel for how the
air war has been going. I'm loosing a lot of the bombers but not a whole lot of
fighters. I've got to quit trying to bring down so many bridges because those
missions are usually flown without escorts far from the front lines. Maybe I should
use the bombers as bait and hit targets within range of my fighters to intercept
the Soviet intercepters. Shoot some of them down maybe.

[larryfulkerson]

Two of my paratrooper units volunteered to attack the city of Sevastopol and their attack was successful and the city
fell. So now the Bulgarians are truely free.

[DanNeely]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Two of my paratrooper units volunteered to attack the city of Sevastopol and their attack was successful and the city
fell. So now the Bulgarians are truely free.

How'd you manage to take down the forts so fast?

I tried with the save you posted a few turns back only to be bloodily repulsed while barely inflicting a scratch on the fort itself.

[larryfulkerson]

How'd you manage to take down the forts so fast?

I tried with the save you posted a few turns back only to be bloodily repulsed while barely inflicting a scratch on the fort itself.

I assigned about two dozen CS missions to the attack on Sevastopol and they made mincemeat out of the defenders.

[larryfulkerson]

I pulled the trigger and all the battles were resolved and then it went to the
Soviet side and that's when it all got started. One attack after another all up
and down the front lines. Lots of breakthroughs and holes and weak spots. This
was the worst series of attacks so far. I'm actually going to have to pull back
in some places. I'll show you the front lines after this post.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T48 front lines before I have moved anybody.