2x3+ Team Side Game - BOTH SIDES

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For information only - graphic describing how to advance airbases.



This can be seen elsewhere as part of guides to air war tactics - see for example fb.asp?m=4612292
But it was originally meant for how the team was changing how it played and based on this turn of this team game!

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T014 Axis Kharkov Start of Turn

Pocket broken!

Axis South Commander
withdraw on all fronts and first guards

Interdiction gives big clues on where the enemy have run to though...

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T014 Axis Kharkov Start of Turn

Pocket broken!

Axis South Commander
withdraw on all fronts and first guards

Interdiction gives big clues on where the enemy have run to though...

They can run but they can't hide (Joe Louis).

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T014 Axis Kharkov Start of Turn
Pocket broken!

Axis South Commander
withdraw on all fronts and first guards

Interdiction gives big clues on where the enemy have run to though...

They can run but they can't hide (Joe Louis).

Not with the mountainloads of recon the Axis get!!! [:D][:-][:D]

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T014 Axis Moscow Start of Turn

A lot of recon but no bombing in their turn, that is a change! We got a fair bit of interdiction of course as they are just moving back - they are usually about 50 or 60 miles back but in some places 100 miles from our front lines. So just a case of infantry chasing behind, there will be few if any combats by infantry in north or centre - only real question is which hexes to flip and how to do motorised.

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T014 Axis Leningrad Start of Turn

They are getting better at air supply, no more leaving the rifle divisions and putting the security in orange. Still an 89 defensive CV in NorthWest Leningrad!



Mannerheim seems to have forgotten to tell the Finnish air force they are not fighting south of the white dotted line though?

For North Commander AAR see fb.asp?m=4453571

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For information only - attached team allocations for turn 14

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T014 Axis

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T014 Axis NW Leningrad Falls

Axis North Commander
North Leningrad taken

Mannerheim, true to his word, abandons their self-imposed limitations and releases the Finnish army into the depths of Russia.

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T014 Axis Finnish Armies Reorganisation

Mannerheim has fielded two Finnish armies, but with the Finnish economy collapsing much of its manpower is now returning home. Nevertheless they have good commanders with support units in their corps and army HQs that are immune to the first blizzard effects. So two German divisions are reassigned to Finnish command this turn with many more to come. Two German corps HQs will also be put under Finnish army command. Indeed Mannerheim's forces will grow to about half an army group and reach far south of Lake Ilmen and eventually have many more Germans than Finns.

Axis Supreme Commander
Come blizzard we will want all Finnish units (including coastal brigades) at the front not in garrisons (the long front probably means they cannot spare any). And they will need to be in Kannas or Karelian armies to not have a battle penalty - all their corps are already in their armies. This means 48 command points in total in the Finnish command.

I count after withdrawals in the next few turns Karelian army will have 12 command points and Kannas army 11 command points used. In addition there are five command points of Finnish units that can be assigned from direct assignment now in Finnish High Command. This makes a total of 28. So there is space for 20 command points more- which could be up to 10 German infantry divisions or less if some units in the Finnish HQs need to break down to regiments. 3 of these divisions could be arrivals which can be assigned there at no points cost.

During the blizzard the Finns should have 2 army HQs and 3 corps HQs. The ratings of the army leaders are so good that units can actually have better ratings check probabilities directly assigned to armies so can be used for that (and in-spite of the army direct penalty). 4 of these HQs should be enough to keep all units up to the no move line in HQ range. The fifth HQ ideally should be one with their best leader right at the bottom edge of the no move line with German units directly assigned to it south of the line - so that Finnish SUs can be committed to help German units south of the line. If there are Finnish units to spare these can be left on reserve at the bottom of the no move line to reserve activate over it too.

If this is the case then there is no need to assign a German corps to Finnish armies. If the Finnish HQs cannot be in HQ range of all units then you may want to reassign XXVII to a Finnish army (as a corps from 9th army needs to be reassigned anyway). Or if you can afford the railing cost assign another 9th army corps as then you can reassign the divisions which come with the corps for free.

However using all Finnish corps and army HQs means there will not be one spare for auto rail repair with their auto construction (like the RHGs for Germany).

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T014 Axis Zhitomir Garrison

With so many cities being conquered in the North every German security unit is needed north of the southern allied no move line to garrison them - otherwise first rate frontline German combat units have to do it instead. At least south of the line southern allied combat units can be used. Yet the second regiment of 444 security division has refused to moved from Zhitomir for many turns now - they must like it there [:)]

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T014 Axis Strategic Bombing Ends

Axis Supreme Commander
Kazan already has fighters protecting it

With all the major industrial centres now having fighter cover any possibility of strategic bombing to build damage levels has ended. At best we can only try to keep any existing significant damage levels topped up or slow their repair. But at least we have the satisfaction that many of their fighters are far to the rear.

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T014 Axis Air War

With the Soviet side no longer even trying to bomb our troops and their troops being so far back the air war is getting cooler. The lack of engagement is an opportunity to send many level bombers to national reserve. We do not lose many stukas - because we do not have many to lose. The stuka production pool is still zero! The stukas we do have are sent to ground support the south - any excuse to keep them away from centre!

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Axis North Commander
This is the first turn we have not destroyed over 200K manpower

I have deliberately not been making any judgments on game play in this AAR - just let the pictures do the talking and quote the other players themselves. But it is fair to quote the other players reflections that Soviet game play is getting smarter. Reading back on the last Soviet turn I can see a lot of real thought is going into working out what the choices they have to make are. So even though we are still taking ground and capturing industry, now it is the ground and industry our opponents have planned to cede to us.

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T014 Axis Field Communications Security

Lapses in German field communications security have been identified and will need to be rapidly rectified.

Names and faces have been redacted to protect the innocent. And the horribly guilty.

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T014 Axis Field Communications Security

Lapses in German field communications security have been identified and will need to be rapidly rectified.

Names and faces have been redacted to protect the innocent. And the horribly guilty.

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I reckon this bank robber from Tblisi?

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Especially if Mongo in film directed by this guy