Sudden death campaign.
Standard rules with random weather.
Here is my position at the start of the Soviet turn.
Just too many critical mistakes:
1. I let them across the river above Pskov. Axis may not break out from here and it is tying up two good divisions, but it is taking a lot more Soviets to defend.
2. Should have got higher fortification values here before Axis got into contact.
3. Have made a right mess of my armies around Pskov. Already had 8 armies between Northern and NW front so have used Moscow MD for the 9th. But it should have been in the gap between here and Western Front if at all, so I could have stacked infantry from the different NW armies without too many minuses in combat.
4. This are is probably OK
5. But letting them across the Dnepr around Gomel is not.
6, Major mess up here. After nearly holding Saper in this area, T2, in the previous game I tried to reinforce it and stop Axis creating a pocket. They were all duly pocketed T2 and repocketed again T3. The result was just more units in the bag; 16 in total compared with 12 in the last game.
7. Silly mistake. Had 6 units garrisoning Odessa but only one in the city. 3 panzer divisions came round the back and assaulted across the river, 8 units pocketed.
If the problems were just in one area would not be so bad, could take the losses and retreat. However having messed up badly across the whole front line I think it is not worth continuing.
Credit to S-T who played to take good advantage of every mistake, if he had been less aggressive I could probably have got away with it and not even noticed.
. Thank you and all other forum members that spend their time helping those in this game.
