Magicmissile (Axis)vs Battlevonwar (allied)

[MagicMissile]

March 28 1941

With snow both in the north and south the whistle blows and the Axis charge into The Sovietunion. Well charge and charge it is slow going but still [:)].

[MagicMissile]

In Persia it looks like there are now 10 Soviet corps and good ones too mountain, arm and mech. I am a bit worrird about the field day the Red Airforce will have and wether I need to send a couple of more units here but I do think those 10 corps will be missed on the main front.

[MagicMissile]

And the British looks like they are already on the move.

[MagicMissile]

April 11 1941

Advance continues slowly with rain in the northern part and snow in the south and it is not looking like there will not be much resistance for a long time.

[MagicMissile]

In Persia looks like Soviet buildup continues.

[Flaviusx]

I have never seen an early German Barbarossa fail and I don't think this one is going to be the first. Especially with that big chunk of units diverted to Persia.

Battlevonwar is going to get an ugly lesson in why you have to do a forward defense as the Soviets and not just run away to the interior. I tried to explain this to him a while back.

It looks like he is just saving up his production to do mass army builds. No rifle corps spam. I don't agree with that, either. Too big a hit on your manpower pool. And if he'd built up some rifle corps, he could be using those in Persia rather than wasting all that armor. You have no real punch down there.

[MagicMissile]

No think you might be right. Early days yet but all my early invasions have been big succesess and as will be seen in next screenshot I also have the weather gods with me.

[MagicMissile]

April 25 1941

I am in both games the lucky one with the weather. I get cold weather in both zones and now the Axis forces charge ahead.

If I calculated correctly there are possibly 11 turns of clear weather ahead. Will be a long summer for the Soviets I think.

I also managed to shatter the HQ with Vatutin in charge so that will hurt a bit as well.

[MagicMissile]

May 23 1941

Advance continues. I dont inflict so much losses but of the 4 units shattered this turn 3 were arm corps. I think I migh lose my paratrooper though so not without some cost.

Every turn I manage to break through the line somewhere forcing a retreat. Russia is big but not unlimited. I have an arm corps that could reach Moscow in 1 turn. A Kiev pocket threatens so I think a Soviet retreat from the Dnepr river is a must.

[MagicMissile]

In the west the British take Portugal under their "protection". I move a German unit to Alger in anticipation of some action in Africa in the near future.

[MagicMissile]

June 6 1941

Manage to create some kind of Kiev pocket and even though Soviet army still large with so many summer turns left losses from now on would go up as there is not that much more room to retreat in.

This was actually the last that happened. Battlevonwar thought Soviet situation was very bad and decided to end this game.

[MagicMissile]

Game ended.

Thanks to Battlevonwar for a nice game [:)]. The breakthrough in the Maginot line I guess was the decider. Without it things might very well have gone differently. But as it played out in France I managed to destroy a fair amount of British therefore I could take Egypt and that gave me Iraq and Persia and that made me able to threaten Baku which tied up a pretty large number number of Soviet units that together with the early invasion led to Soviet defeat.

So guidelines for me: Garrison Maginot with 20 str corps and do not let the Germans invade early.

[ago1000]

Thank you both for sharing. It was nice being able to see the thought process from both sides.

[MagicMissile]

Youre welcome [:)]. If there is any more information or things people think should be included in an AAR let me know.

/MM