FITE2 Cpt Flam Axis, Larry Soviets

[cpt flam]

Larry will be glad as MUD arrived

in AGN
pushing Militia in the city reveals 2 Armies in support
nearly no advance of our rail lines as each Armies decide to refit

few aircraft losses 18 vs 70

[cpt flam]

junction AGC and AGS

2 more Army HQ are trap there
I could destroyed only 2 regiment

I took a look to soviet OOB; at first glance Militia and Cavalry destroyed won't come back.
Some of the units along the border (at the beginning) came back after 18 turns due to TOE change.

no change about isolated units

[cpt flam]

Turn 34

AGC
Bryansk failed as a rotten fruit. No real losses to take it.
Another regiment killed and that's all which happened.

As you can see, it's hard to have divisions cooperating as many are refitting each turn.
Air war was poor: 11 vs 54

[cpt flam]

No need for picture as no real action for turn 35
we destroyed anyway a regiment and a divisional HQ
air war continue 22 vs 122, as Larry tried some Interdiction (even if not allowed)
he has to many games running to remember

[larryfulkerson]

Sorry about the INT. I forgot again. I need to put a yellow post-it note on the frame around my monitor to remind me no INT when playing Patrick.

[cpt flam]

now is turn 36

this is my most advanced units in the south

I wanted to show also actual state for airplanes
not shown are Ju87B on hand 181 assigned 343 and lost 107

this turn I lost 16 planes vs 126
some units were destroyed 5 regiments and 4 HQ (49th Army included)

[larryfulkerson]

Hey Patrick I sent some moves to you...I think I forgot to turn off the INT again. Sorry twice over.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some of my losses so far. I haven't been watching the losses much so I don't know if the number of assigned foot soldiers is increasing or decreasing. I assume I have enough left to continue the fight. Aircraft losses are still heavy. I've put boxes around the numbers I find significant and I intend to refer to this image in the future to cross reference a newer one in a future turn. That way I'll be able to gauge the trend in the different numbers.

[cpt flam]

from memory, Russia began with:
50 000 Rifle Squad w/ DP LMG
again few turns and you will receive some ART replacement

[larryfulkerson]

I'm not sure what happened to the shock level for my side....it's slightly higher than the Axis side. Maybe it has something to do with the mud season because I don't think the Soviet Winter Offensive has started yet. But I could be wrong.

[cpt flam]

it's like this from beginning of Mud
Turn 37
air losses were 12 vs 89
destroyed 8 regiment and 2 HQ

Turn 38
air war continue 12 vs 112
we encounter more MiG and Lagg, even if older planes continue to be there
we could killed 2 regiment and 4 HQ (43rd Army included)

on the picture 2 Armies are stacked
rail line is in Kiev and about 12 hexes NW from selected unit

[cpt flam]

Turn 39, start of November
not much done
small conflict in the air: 4 vs 87
units destroyed 9 regiments and 2 HQ

[StuccoFresco]

How are supply levels?

[cpt flam]

for me they are really poor
I will try to remember and show an example

[cpt flam]

Turn 40
as you can see supply is at 14 on rail line

air war has been poor, I lost 19 planes for 94
we could destroyed 8 regiment and Western Front HQ

there is actually 37 regiment and 19 HQ isolated (from which: 18th, 19th, 28th, 40th and 50th Armies)

[StuccoFresco]

Not terribly bad, but certainly not good. Do you have enough engineers to repair the rails?

[cpt flam]

engineers are great in the north, about right in AGC and not much in AGS even with help from minors

[cpt flam]

Turn 41 (may be last Rasputitsa turn)

there was few air losses 8 vs 17
I continue to hammer isolated units
destroying 11 regiment and 5 HQ (18th, 40th and 50th Army)

we are waiting ground drying to exploit a bit more

[larryfulkerson]

New moves from Patrick and I watched the combat replay and now I'm moving my aircraft to better positions prior to moving anything else. Oh, I did disembark everybody as the first act.

I think I found a tiny problem with changing the color of the crop circles for the aircraft. Mine are almost invisible so I wanted to change the color to something darker and it doesn't seem to work. I changed the color to purple and dismissed the dialog expecting to see the color to change on the range arc and it didn't. So I opened the dialog again and I see that it has the color I changed it to but neither of the range arcs are the right color. I'm wondering if I have to reboot TOAW to see the change.

[cpt flam]

Turn 42
as expected ground begin to dry and freeze in the north

I show you what's happening in the south
the Dnepr is crossed in different places
a Cavalry division has been pushed from Nikopol
we could take Kherson too

air war has been horrific 52 vs 320 planes, this mean destroyed only no damage

we continue to kill some units 23 regiments and 12 HQ
as Larry give them order (no retreat), it happens that they disappear in a fight