Red Star Ascending Axis (BrianG) VS Soviet (HLYA) All Welcome

[Balou]

ORIGINAL: SparkleyTits

The heros of Tallinin indeed

Tallinin: how does supply work over solid frozen "shipping lanes" ?

@HLYA: Thanks for posting the pics !

[SparkleyTits]

Brian might still be able to get to around 4k working AFV for 42
Wish I could see his manpower stats now!!

Will be around the 70-80% TOE's for German panzers/mot I imagine without some fiddling?
Blunted but workable for Axis under the right circumstances so still not quite safe enough to sit on your laurels [:(]
If he gets off to a fairly decisive start/breakthrough in early 42 and doesn't get drawn into a drawn out slugging match while his lower numbers of AFV are going to be most taken advantage of he could make something happen

We will have to stay tuned to see if you have anything prepared half as well as your air arm to make sure that doesn't happen I guess [:D]

[HardLuckYetAgain]

ORIGINAL: Balou

ORIGINAL: SparkleyTits

The heros of Tallinin indeed

Tallinin: how does supply work over solid frozen "shipping lanes" ?

@HLYA: Thanks for posting the pics !

Looks like it is treated as normal land hexes(a bit abstract for sure, but check with EwaldvonKleist or Telemecus I am sure they would have the textbook answer) I know when BrianG had the rail cut to Leningrad it was 103ish to Tallinin. Was top priority to at least get Tallinin back in supply at a minimum.

You are welcome for the pictures. I believe tomorrow I should be able to finish up the turn to BrianG and update the AAR. Finally feeling better but still cough a ton when I sit up and when I walk around.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

ORIGINAL: SparkleyTits

Brian might still be able to get to around 4k working AFV for 42
Wish I could see his manpower stats now!!

Will be around the 70-80% TOE's for German panzers/mot I imagine without some fiddling?
Blunted but workable for Axis under the right circumstances so still not quite safe enough to sit on your laurels [:(]
If he gets off to a fairly decisive start/breakthrough in early 42 and doesn't get drawn into a drawn out slugging match while his lower numbers of AFV are going to be most taken advantage of he could make something happen

We will have to stay tuned to see if you have anything prepared half as well as your air arm to make sure that doesn't happen I guess [:D]

BrianG PZ's are still in pretty good shape. I think 2nd PZ was in the worst shape that I saw. He should be in decent shape with the rest I think. But to be effective he needs to get them off the line and refit/replace because at the moment I can account for every PZ Division and Moto Division the German side has except for 2 which are on the front lines. Not to mention he just launched an offense near Kursk.

BrianG has played the Blizzard extremely well imo. He played his strengths and took advantage of my weakness. But it has cost him on the loss of his tanks to play this way. In the Air he is hurting IMO. My whole goal now in the air is to shoot down German bombers. Even if it means losing hundreds to thousands of Soviet infantryman. Not an easy task with the production numbers of German bombers. I should be able to keep German fighters under control. All total I have only been able to capture 2 German Moto Divisions, 1 German Inf division, and a Hungarian division (i think it was). Loses are astronomical for both sides. Don't quote me on this becasue I am not in front of my gaming computer but I believe German loses stand at 1.1-1.2 million while Soviets is 4.4-4.5. But not for certain since not in front of PC.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

I haven't forgotten about the AAR. Yes, I have to catch it up. I have to apologize for the delay but in the last month I took a severance package from my old company then immediately started another company with another person. I have had to interview and hire employees & come up with all the operations plans. Needless to say I have been busy. It will be a bit longer but I will get around to getting this caught up

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Some eye candy until I get to this.

Current OOB. Sadly the German OOB has risen by 600,000 since Feb time frame.

German armor replacement is back up to par.

Only in the Air am I keeping the German at bay. I figure by the end of 42 I should control the Air over 90-95% of the battlefield. I hope....

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Here are my 218 fighters squadrons with 4,249 ready fighters sorted by Experience level. Not doing too bad with experience in the low 80's for the top units but most in the mid ranges 70's. They are my hornets looking for some place to put their stingers. They are itching for clear weather since they been losing experience sitting here playing with themselves

[HardLuckYetAgain]

My full 80 squadrons of U2-VS's Yes I use these now in 41 & 42. In clear turns I am able to crank out some pretty sick numbers with these aircraft considering they are from WWI. It is not uncommon for me to get 40-70 killed men But of course I get the 4 or none too. But I think I have it figured out now and waiting for the clear weather to test out my theory with these guys. I will fill in when I write the AAR what I do but in a nutshell all 10 airbases are nothing but U2-VS stacked high.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

I am at 57 IL2 air groups of 160 total I plan on building at a minimum (2 full air armies worth). I will be building 8 more this turn which will put me at 65 Will take them a little bit to get up there but the process has started.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Finally, the current front line. Next turn, the 1st week of May, is clear in the Europe zone & Southern Zone. Will see what happens there. But the first turn it is clear in Central and North all HELL is going to break loose!!! I hope you are prepared for it.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Oh! Forgot this one. One of my top Front commanders with the most wins I bet you would have not guessed it was Kulik ;-P

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Currently this game is on Brians Turn 52. I am not going to have the time to update this AAR from Turn 11-50 for the Soviet side. I just have way too much work along with this game to update any of those turns. I can show some pictures of Brians attack on Leningrad which begins on Turn 48 and here is turn 47 end of my turn.

Here is my setup for the first clear turn in the area. I basically set up to for a retreating withdraw with my current setup. I will take the loses on any of the routes that I am sure Brian will take advantage of on my front lines. My whole goal is make Leningrad a time sync to the end of June. If we go to the Mid part of July I would be ecstatic:). But here is my setup for defense with a pretty decent 3rd line with with high defense and not so semi trash divisions in the front.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

From turn 48 through 50 I lose every single battle Near Leningrad that the Germans initiate against my lines. I stopped counting the lost battles at 36 over those three turns. Not until turn 51 did a get a couple of holds on trash hexes. Shows the power of concentrated German firepower . Not to mention the easy wins on the front lines that I gave them

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Double post

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Turn 49 was more of the same as I rail in a big enough force in Leningrad with high combat values to drive the Germans to the East to buy more time(I fully plan on losing these units). If the Germans are careless I will use the CAV to attack the Finns north of Leningrad and race for a possible victory to take the Finns out with 6 CAV Corps there. Currently there are only Finn Regiments on the North Border 1 per hex

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Turn 50 was more of the same. All German wins, morale hit to Soviet units, and routes. This turn I stoped counting all the loses with no wins. The good note is that I am taking a good many Germans with me over the turns so not all that bad . This turn I rail out an army from the North to the South somewhere . Turn 51 I rail out 2 more armies from the North to the South and rest my bomber force from the map. I entice a cutoff of the last port with a weak Soviet right flank. Will see what Brian does but I never had the intention of holding Leningrad long term. The road to Berlin is paved in the South for me and the North will become a dead zone soon enough. I have gotten out the armies I want from the north for the pushing in the South where Brian has a much smaller force and he should be tied up a bit more up North But the bee stings in the South are starting to take their toll not to mention the previous turns I was able to take out about 400 German Fighters. The Air war is one step closer to Soviet domination (I hope).

[HardLuckYetAgain]

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: Beria

Will more be coming on this? [:)]

Would love to see this from your point of view next!

I did not think there was any interest so I have not posted in a long time. If there is an interest I can bring this up to date on the game from where I have it at the moment. Currently, we are on turn 38. As such, I need to get the turn back to BrianG but I have been sick in bed with double pneumonia for the past 4 days. All drugged out on the medicines ;-P

Due to lack of interest of this AAR it is now closed on this site. If you wish to follow the game you can follow BrianG’s AAR from the German perspective. If you are truly interested PM/Email me & I may give you access to my private server for the the BrianG game (The server has 147 WITE games I played over the years(I had more but lost a block of games when mergering my hard drive)

[EwaldvonKleist]

Why do you think there is no interest? At least I read the AAR. I have read an article on the frequency of thread replies once and it had a list (I think they even gave the phenomenom/the list a name) with reasons why there are no replies. I do not recall the details, but it was a long the lines no one is interested OR there is nothing that can be added (no controversy, nothing wrong or nothing of value that can be added) OR people do not understand what has been written etc.

The "there is nothing to add" is the case for me here. Of course that will change if you really allow a cut off of Leningrad [:D]

+ an AAR does benefit of a regular/turn by turn coverage, but there are different tastes.
Also look at the page hits, it is an indicator as well.

If there is a server with hundreds of WitE AARs somewhere I am for sure interested!

Regards and good luck in your game
EvK

[HardLuckYetAgain]

ORIGINAL: EwaldvonKleist

Why do you think there is no interest? At least I read the AAR. I have read an article on the frequency of thread replies once and it had a list (I think they even gave the phenomenom/the list a name) with reasons why there are no replies. I do not recall the details, but it was a long the lines no one is interested OR there is nothing that can be added (no controversy, nothing wrong or nothing of value that can be added) OR people do not understand what has been written etc.

The "there is nothing to add" is the case for me here. Of course that will change if you really allow a cut off of Leningrad [:D]

+ an AAR does benefit of a regular/turn by turn coverage, but there are different tastes.
Also look at the page hits, it is an indicator as well.

If there is a server with hundreds of WitE AARs somewhere I am for sure interested!

Regards and good luck in your game
EvK

Thank you EvK for the reply. The lecture block (the AAR) without question and answer from the forum, or even statements, to me equates to no interest. I need substantiation to put the time and effort into the AAR. If I am neither adding any value or interest then I can save all some time. I don’t mind doing an AAR considering I took a great deal of time to document every step of my breakout in the South on turn 53. I was hating life the next day at work because of it

As for Leningrad I am allowing Leningrad to be cut off. Post #256 I gave details on what I have been doing. Turn 53 there was breakthrough in the South and BrianG has some decisions to make with that breakthrough, along with his fighter force in tatters, a concentrated Soviet bomber force at will bombing with little to no German fighter interference causing massive casualties. Not to mention 10+ Soviet inf Corps in the 55-60 exp range and ?? Armor Corps in the 40 exp range. His concentrated force of 3 PZ Corps(my estimate) in the North is out of place to help where they are needed(far south). The north has nothing left for me, he can have it and the time it takes to capture it along with miles of forest. The future is South and Central part of the map.

[EwaldvonKleist]

Hi,

If I am neither adding any value or interest then I can save all some time.

My post might have been ambigious here. I mean that the reader/commenter has nothing of value to add, not you (the thread creator).
In other words, to get few comments, you can write a perfect post (nothing to add), a complicated post (no one understands or has a starting point to ask questions from) or one that is of no relavance or whatever else.
When there is a report for one turn, your coverage is high-quality!

Your AAR has 9k hits with is quite good for an AAR with that length&age if you compare to other AARs. So people read but seem to do not comment.
Of course it is understandable that few comments are disappointing if you have put much work into it.

I was hating life the next day at work because of it

I know this WitE induced feeling too

I understand the rationale of luring the Axis to push North through bad terrain to draw away forces. Where I disagree is to sacrifice the comparatively high number of units in the Leningrad pocket if the Axis succeeds to cut it off.
Leningrad&backdoor strong OR Leningrad&backdoor weak but not Leningrad strong&backdoor weak.

Even if the Axis does not cut Leningrad off, they have inner lines, while you can only move out/reinforce through the port with low capacity.

Of course that does not matter if you can enforce a quick decision in the South with pockets.

How satisfied are you with your "kill the AFV" focus in this game so far?

Glad you have joined the U2VS fan club.


How is the state re the AAR-server?

Regards
EvK