BrianG v. HYLA (no hard luck)

[chaos45]

doubt he will be isolated the next turn...maybe after several turns of soviet attacks depending on what he does.

The main advantage of cutting and hold that rail line is it should burn up soviet trucks in the blizzard supporting the Leningrad side.

[SparkleyTits]

Damn Brian those are some massive cojones you have there!

The manpower and appreciable force needed to break that wall of steel would be a darn hefty obstacle to gain advantages from
Without a critical K.O on pocketing that lovely prize it would likely only results in lots of dead commies, Axis AFV, a small ammount of buffer hexes for 42 and some relieved stress on logistics so not sure if that would be the best place to hedge my bets if I was Soviets tbh
May well be nail stuff biting if HL goes for it though and if it can be pulled off quickly or Brian makes a mistake then it's game over

Good luck Herr Brian, winter is coming!

[Colbert]

Takes real balls yes! [:D]

[BrianG]

Dec 41 open. Here ya see Russian action on last snow turn.

They really tried to tire out my tanks and took heavy losses in soak attacks

[BrianG]

I launch my first snow attack to push back that 2-5 inf unit.

And proceed to lose. I should have done a bombing first

[BrianG]

Final north positions. I push up units to 2 divisions per hex at the head. Can we hold?

I bring up tank units from Stalino to bolster the right picket line forming in front of the rr junction.

[BrianG]

middle end first blizzaard

[BrianG]

and down south. Final

[M60A3TTS]

I'm afraid this is going to get ugly pretty fast.

[chaos45]

ya not sure pushing extra divisions more north was the answer.....this next turn I can see at least a couple hexes along that corridor that the soviets should take...this turn was to burn german supply right before the blizzard huge reduction in supply deliveries....so some of those units will get pretty big negative CV shifts on the next soviet turn.

[SparkleyTits]

Brian knows what he wants and he isn't afraid to fight for it
I bloody love it personally! [:D]

[piotrmx]

It looks like huge Demyansk.

[therealevan]

Just finished catching up on this AAR, looks like some 'interesting' action taking place. Looking forward to future updates.

[Balou]

Let's assumme the spearhead holds. How good is sov supply to the Leningrad area holding just a single port up north (Sviritsa ?)and a one hex wide corridor ?

[chaos45]

the main effect it will have on the soviets is truck use since the main rail line is down.

As long as you have a functioning port they wont have supply issues as long as trucks are fine.

[BrianG]

It seems that my final blizzard last turn up north had one more move before I executed.

I must have retreated from the tip . Worries of disaster probably and very low supply stocks in tanks which moved south one hex from the tip.

See map open below and no combat on the tip.

Thus I must have moved them.

2 or 3 wins for Russians at base of. Attacks on tank wall meant to injure (use your own adjective) German tanks.

[BrianG]

I dislodge the annoying hex

[BrianG]

Final north

Already spotted Guards airbases. Uh oh

[BrianG]

Retreat from Kalinin.

[BrianG]

Fierce Russian attack unsettles the whole extended northern front.

Major hex loss puts forward units at risk of encirclement.

Retreat units have to abandon many afv's due to frozen conditions.

Also Russian breakthru near rr junction must be contained