brianG v tyronec anatomy of disaster all welcome

[BrianG]

Saratov final

[BrianG]

south final.

Its a line.

But german mountain unit is in on the RR zoc blocking troop retreat from the west

[BrianG]

The remaining units which need to be retreated.

Some take boat then the rr.

If i had normal rr and line was not blocked it would be one turn.

But With this situation its like 4 or 5 more turns to fully evac

[BrianG]

end of turn KIA

not pretty

[BrianG]

AIR kia

[BrianG]

OOB

[BrianG]

This has got to be the greatest attack ever for the Germans in any WITW war.

It's my nominee.

[eskuche]

Model has roughly a 80% chance to double CV for each stat. If those are the elite divisions I'm thinking of with normal CV, so do they [:D]

[BrianG]

so, up North, the German finally pick a direction and many more Russians are trapped.

I launch a high risk counterattack.

And a massive hole is opened behind the forward German units.

[BrianG]

The right side of the breakthrough is recaptured and supply again reaches the pocket.

Now i need to work on the left side

[BrianG]

attack on flank of pocket and a rout

[BrianG]

We attack the big tank stack.

400 German tanks. Hope to drain fuel and supply.

Last attack in the area

[BrianG]

final middle

in hindsight I could have played the left side of the pocket better. It could have been fully cut.

[BrianG]

final Saratov

Pressure has been released for a few turns

[BrianG]

Final Moscow Pincer

I really have more issues elsewhere I will need to withdraw this strong Army and help elsewhere

[BrianG]

Up North the Fins launch offensive against weak screen.

It should hold

[BrianG]

And then we have Baku.

The door is broken and i cant retreat fast enough to cover a good second and third line.

And next turn just gets worse[:@]

[BrianG]

Kia since last turn

[BrianG]

The Germans breakthrough to the south part of the map East of Baku.

Which causes this horrible ZOC map loss that further and irrevocable ruins any chance of my retreat from the west.

Not sure how one can model this particular aspect of the game with better nuance. I mean did they have to give away the port.[:-]

[BrianG]

Which raises the issue that now the Germans had absolutely no reason to leave any german troops adjacent to these trapped troops. Now he can reinforce the northern map action. And that is what happens.

sort of a bad outcome by allowing these Russian troops to be fully unsupplied when Baku is taken. Perhaps Batumi should be a supply source. Hint.

Also, even after i reestablished supply, my 2 ports did not come back online and west my troops could not use sea movement this turn.