BrianG v. HYLA (no hard luck)

[BrianG]

Spear tip cut off. no surprise there.
Now to find a route to get my unit planted on the rr hex above.

[BrianG]

okh confirms, supply levels good. they expect mission to be success

[BrianG]

This was a very hard battle. I need clear lanes for follow-on troops

[BrianG]

details

3 division hasty

getting closer

[BrianG]

hex by hex action.

these are my highlights

[BrianG]

tank reinforcement for key battle ahead.

one could almost see them moving up the snow packed road

[BrianG]

taking no chances I use all front line troops in the attack.

A nice result!

[BrianG]

hasty then claims the rr hex.

woo hooo. we did it.

yes we have put our tanks in horrible position to start a blizzard.[:-]

We move unit into vacant hex.

Orders come down from above. Hold at all cost. Hold at all cost.

[BrianG]

Final Leningrad position before the blizzard. My rr snakes all the way into the middle of the panzer pack.

It should get very tight very soon.


Hold at all cost!

[BrianG]

north Moscow. I retreat west. I will need to hold before the rr junction feeding my panzer pack

[BrianG]

orderly retreat near Tula

[BrianG]

Kursk. No gaps in forward line: to block last snow turn Russian sneak thru maneuver

[BrianG]

stalino


rr is still too far away from front. I will try and anchor at Stalino and delay flank attacks.

[chaos45]

surprised you didn't attempt to storm Rostov to at least take it before winter. With a good leader, engineers and Artillery a 6 factor soviet stack should have been easy for 3 stacks of Germans to move with no river issues. Yes it shows 80 but that doesn't mean much for soviets in 1941.

[BrianG]

urprised you didn't attempt to storm Rostov to at least take it before winter. With a good leader, engineers and Artillery a 6 factor soviet stack should have been easy for 3 stacks of Germans to move with no river issues. Yes it shows 80 but that doesn't mean much for soviets in 1941.

I might have but the extra army group award needs the other towns across the river. Thus "a river to far" And tanks really did not have good supply fuel levels

[timmyab]

Way too agressive in the North in my opinion. Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

[Huw Jones]

ORIGINAL: timmyab

Way too agressive in the North in my opinion. Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

I was thinking the same in the North, I would have pulled back last turn.

Not sure why cutting the rail area is important, as it will easily be repaired?

[trh2164]

Agreed. There is a good chance he will lose all the units that drove north to Leningrad unless he immediately starts evacuating on the first turn of blizzard.

[chaos45]

Looking forward to seeing the next turns...but panzers in woods are still going to be tough to move even in blizzard.

[trh2164]

Isolated in blizzard against calvary corps and possibly mountain units it will be tough, even in forest.