Heading East into the Soviet Union

[carlkay58]

T19 AGS:

1st PG continues to try and isolate Kursk. 17th Army is advancing on Kharkov and isolating Dnepropetrovsk. 11th Army and 1 PG are trying to also pocket Zaporozhye.

[carlkay58]

T19 Files:

[dudefan]

Thank you for your detailed answer regarding rail repair. Great aar

[carlkay58]

T20 Supply Net North:

AGN is still in a bad situation but it is improving.

[carlkay58]

T20 Supply Net South:

Things almost look good here. Still too far with the trucks along the front.

[carlkay58]

T20 Air Phase:

Rain in the air everywhere.

[carlkay58]

T20 Freight:

Mud really gets the supply down. Remember that supply need escalates. I need 1500 this turn but only get 1200. Next turn I now need the 300 I did not get last turn but another 1500 and only get 1200 so now I am in the hole for 600. So this is an escalation that may only take a turn or two to recover from, but it is not going to happen often during the mud.

[carlkay58]

T20 Trucks:

If you look at this detail towards the bottom of the Freight section you can see that if it was not for all of those captured Soviet Trucks (over 32K) I would be in an impossible situation at the moment. Remember that when you are trying to decide just how many pockets you want to make before the mud arrives.

[carlkay58]

T20 AGN:

Not much except 16th Army is advancing after the retreating Soviets. 18th Army is pulling a few units back to refit and recover CPP. The rail head is across the Narva River now.

[carlkay58]

T20 AGC:

4th Army has followed the retreating Soviets to the outskirts of Bryansk.

[carlkay58]

T20 AGS:

Kharkov is being threatened with isolation. Kursk is too. Dnepropetrovsk is isolated and now so is Zaporozhye. Just waiting for frost to be able to reduce the pockets. The Crimea is solidly in the hands of the Rumanians backed up by the Italians.

[carlkay58]

T20 Soviet Garrison:

It is currently sitting at 136% so its about as good as I can make it at this point.

[carlkay58]

T20 OOB:

The bad weather has slowed down the attrition and pockets so the Soviets have reached 3.3M men. That is bad news for the winter.

[carlkay58]

T20 Ground Losses:

The Soviets have lost about the same amount of men as they currently have so I have kept them to half of what they could have had. That is scary.

[carlkay58]

T20 Air Losses:

The bad weather has slowed the air losses on both sides. The Axis has lost over a fourth of the Soviet losses.

[carlkay58]

T20 Production:

The fighters are back up in numbers. The vehicle pool is really low which points out just how important those captured Soviet trucks are. The Vehicles in Repair should start going down in 42 which is a good thing. The Axis Generic pool will also become important in 42.

[carlkay58]

T20 VPs:

I have a chance to capture Leningrad, Kharkov, Kursk, Dnepropetrovsk, and Zaporozhe for an additional 70+ VPs. That would give me over 600 VPs going into 42. My aim then is the 750 VPs needed for Sudden Victory in 42 as my real shot at winning the war.

[carlkay58]

T20 Rail Net North:

You can see just how large of an area is not really reachable with supplies. AGN is bad but there are areas of AGC that are bad too. There are just never enough FBDs and RAR Labor units to get the rail everywhere you need it. Sometimes I wonder whether I really should continue advancing after the retreating Soviets - particularly in the Valdai Hills. I did need the rail line just south of 9th Army to keep that in supply but the 16th Army could be too far in.

[carlkay58]

T20 Rail Net South:

If you look closely at the area south of the double rail line you can see just how much rail has been repaired by my Hungarian Corps HQ with three or four RAR Labor units. They have almost connected Odessa north. My Rumanian Corps HQ with some Rumanian Rail units has done the majority of the rails to the east of Nikolaev. It does build up after a while.

[carlkay58]

T20 Situation Analysis:

I have not had a Sudden Defeat so things are doing good in that department. However I have done some stuff wrong through the turns. The first notable one is my handling of the PGs. I dispersed the 1st PG too far in AGS and that negated their ability to continue pocketing the Soviets. I really could have used some more pockets and specifically captured the Dnepr bend with the large (6 and 3) railyards there. On the other hand I concentrated the 2nd and 3rd PGs too closely in AGC and that caused problems there. The best handling has actually been AGN but I pulled the FBD south before deciding that the AI left me some chances up there so the advance has been hindered in the final moves. Hopefully Leningrad will fall during the freeze and then everything will look good there.

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