2x3+ Team Side Game - BOTH SIDES

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T024 Axis Onega

This time the forecast mud does occur. Supply flights keep some of the isolated Finnish units in beachhead status.

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T022 Axis Spot Cavalry

13 corps worth of cavalry east of Saransk spotted

[Zorch]

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T022 Axis Spot Cavalry

13 corps worth of cavalry east of Saransk spotted

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T022 Axis Mius

Axis South Commander
My god, so many units in the south that is where they will push
Attacking towards Rostov, tricky, not sure if I'll be able to isolate first turn
but looks like I'll be able to bag at least a good portion, maybe 20 units
1 to setup, 2 to close, 3 to eliminate but I'll take some hits after that

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T022 Axis Mius

Axis South Commander
Got the port
I've got infantry moved up, XXXIV and the mountain corps
I've assigned stugs and pioneers directly for this
I'll reinforce the 6 CV divisions - the mountain gets 2 flams - 13 cv, lol, doubled
Bit worried about the SS brigade. I can move up the tank regiment.
And then rely on 1st mountain, they cant reach 1st mountain from east.
Don't seem them budging the two 11 CV stacks with HQs just to lessen supply, costly affair for little gain.
If attacked they will each go south to the corridor and make any pocket harder
Plenty of ammo

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T022 Axis Mius

Axis South Commander
XXXXVIIIPz did a hq bu
My forward corps has around 50% fuel, and 200 in the bank

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T022 Axis Mius

Axis South Commander
No Soviet air, I'll fly in more fuel

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T022 Axis Mius

They can bring about 15 CV a hex atm so with 2 hexes to attack from they should be able to budge 10CV hexes with a good chance
Soviets need to spend movement to get into position to attack from east and looking at the fort levels they are bad troops

Axis South Commander
Best place to attack is from the inside but displaced two army HQs in the attack so they are all out of HQ range, pushed all the armies to Rostov.
18th army was most north, 37th army in center, and 51st army, 6th army - so that is 4 armies [Bordered in yellow below]
Two mountain divs to the south so threat might come from Rostov.
The line will probably get isolated further where have fuel
Leibstandarte is the weakspot but the divisions inside can be busted out, and have fuel for next turn.

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T022 Axis Mius

Axis South Commander
next turn is the last chance for a perfect pocket
if it doesn't look like I'll make it I'll starting routing them out
and pull back the tanks, move up the axis allies
And try to cut the rail

[Beria]

T022 Sov Mius

Axis Supreme Commander
Just opened hole and ran
Pocketed 3 divisions but 2 still have fuel
And can be walked out so no threat there

Axis South Commander
think he got lucky last turn as he was able to move and delib attack

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T023 Axis Mius

Axis South Commander
I've got a pocket but likely it will get broken
He has a lot of CV there.. it will depend on his role for MP

Axis South Commander
Next turn is last turn of snow
Getting to Stalino I'll take a hit. Only 2 Panzer divs exposed though
Next turn I'll use points to move the support up the chain

[Beria]

T023 Sov Mius

The Rostov pocket holds and no attempt to even try to air supply the Rostov pocket
No battles to break back in!



The commanders report displays what is left in the pocket


{note this embedded picture is attached to post 720)

Soviet Supreme Commander[iI]
Also, operation no one left behind will have to be drastically changed in light of recent event

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T024 Axis Mius

And liquidated ... just in time for blizzard

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T024 Axis Mius Air Fuelling

Axis South Commander
fuel flights to get the motorized out
And limit exposure to one turn of blizzard
I want to make sure the most important ones make it to Stalino next turn

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T024 Axis 103RHG

103RHG is being reincarnated to a second life as a combat command. Currently it is being formed up with cavalry, independent German combat regiments and the Slovakian security division that has the ToE of an infantry division as well as the many replacements that Slovakia has to offer. Infantry divisions cannot be assigned to 103RHG, but brigades can be and remain even if they then upgrade to a division.

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T024 Axis Strategic Bombingg

Axis Centre Commander
1% damage does not really matter anymore does it?
with .02 / 03 expansion is no longer blocked by that damage

Soviet Centre Commander
22 Heroes of the Soviet Union!
11 x MiG-3 and 11 x Yak-1 pilots
I am recommending 328 IAP and 9 IAP-ChF regiments be promoted to guard units!

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T022-024 Axis Air

A lot of soviet recon - and they lost a lot of recon!

Axis Supreme commander
End of turn 22 and they seem to have reserved most of everything actually
Hardly any airpower over centre/north
No airpower anywhere from the looks of it

Axis Supreme commander
There are only recon in airbases apart from 4 fighter groups I can see in north
it is looking like free bombing everywhere except one spot in North
in which case North can have any fighters they want to fighter sweep them to death if they want to
only question is sharing out bombers probably south preference if on the offensive for ground support
we should have been hitting all those airbases they had one or two hexes from the front though
Can tell we slowed down

Soviet South commander
We are leaving our airbases very vulnerable

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Axis Supreme Commander
no partisan supply flights flew at end of axis T22!

Axis Supreme Commander
no partisan supply flights were heard at end of axis T24

Axis Air Commander
we have some good listening stations [:)]

[Zorch]

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Axis Supreme Commander
no partisan supply flights flew at end of axis T22!

Axis Supreme Commander
no partisan supply flights were heard at end of axis T24

Axis Air Commander
we have some good listening stations [:)]

Unfortunately all they picked up was a repeat of Stalin's speech about tractor production.

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Interesting to compare - Stalin was known to be a bad speaker whereas his opponent got to where he was by his speaking skills. Similar in so many ways but so different in this one place.

(Note attached picture has been embedded into post 712 above)