T 10, January 21, 1943
Jumping ahead to Turn 10
OVERALL SITUATION: Dodo98 has done a good job withdrawing to a new more static defense line. There are now stronger German units in the South, including 3 SS Divisions, and up north the line is shortened and taking advantage of woods and other tough terrain.
The offensives by Kalinin, NW, and Western fronts are more or less halted. We have taken V-L, Vyazma, and some terrain around the bulges into our line, and it's now just grinding a hex at a time. German defenses remain strong everywhere north of Bryansk, with some hexes double-stacked with German infantry.
In the SOUTH, we are drawing-up on the Donbas. We are repairing rail and moving stuff forward, not strong enough yet to take on the line....think it's better to simply rest and gain CPP before making another push, and allow the supply and depots to catch-up, which they will in a couple turns
LOSSES
You can see the losses so far through Turn 10; note both sides start with alot of disabled in the pool, and the negative number means the Axis is currently returning more disabled to duty than are disabled in combat!
We have captured over 300,000 Axis troops; most of those are Stalingrad, but we have also captured 9 divisions outside of the pocket, probably another 100,000 or so including 70,000 Germans. Axis AFV losses look fairly high, though alot of those are crap tanks that I may be doing a favor in clearing out of the Axis inventory. Same for mine, roughly half the Red Army losses are small recon tanks, including almost 1,000 of the useless T-60s.
I am not very concerned with losing tanks; Soviet production in AFVs is massive. I do worry about Manpower and Vehicle losses, and a lesser extent guns; those are the limiting factors, particularly the first two
