The Red Army Is (Not) Overpowered - A tongue in cheek aar

[RedJohn]

We make contact with German lines at the Centre. I avoid moving to the hexes near Orel, as it's not heavy snow yet nor blizzard.

[RedJohn]

OOB turn 25, before it all comes tumbling down.

[RedJohn]

Turn 26. The Germans continue to fallback from the Voronezh area, but they can only fall back so much before I freely retake Kursk and Orel.

Blizzard covers the front.

[RedJohn]

We attack across the front except Crimea. Yalta and Sevastapol are cityforts, whilst the 9th army fights a retreat to Kerch which I will also cityfort with the remnants of their forces.

[RedJohn]

Out of 33 attacks we have 7 holds. A pretty good start, but maintaining momentum can be difficult.

[RedJohn]

It hurts!

[RedJohn]

OOB at our height. I expect this number to fall dramatically over the coming turns as the attrition wears us down.

Our jump in on-map forces is the result of me sending about 300 - 500k worth of brigades to the map. I haven't decided what to do with them yet.

[EwaldvonKleist]

2:1 numerical superiority plus blizzard effects, if your opponent doesn't run, the Wegrmacht will be completely wrecked in 03.1942

[Stamb]

5.3mil, 5.7mil men already in the first winter...

[RedJohn]

The power of running away mixed with reinforcing moscow and leningrad with SW/S front units turns 1-3 [:)]

The worst I've had it in terms of OOB was during the artillery patch, as losses were bad enough in both areas that my OOB stagnated.

[Stamb]

Did you still win in arty patches?

[RedJohn]

ORIGINAL: Stamb

Did you still win in arty patches?

I had 3 games as soviets in arty patch, 2 of them were against someone who was relatively inexperienced (which were won handily) and the 3rd against bluesky, which I briefly talked about in the OP. I took pretty bad casualties during that game, and he was still managing to push tiles easily during heavy snow at Leningrad. As said in the OP though he was busy with life and so resigned. I don't know which way it would've went, but I was pretty confident in winning given how winter went.

[RedJohn]

Turn 27. Axis retreat in many places, but avoid retreating in others.

[RedJohn]

Casualties for the turn. It's important to note that a lot of those casualties were Romanians, and not German.

[RedJohn]

Romanians, as ever, are fodder.

[RedJohn]

56 battles this turn, 3 holds. 1 of them due to the accursed motorised units north-east of Smolensk, on the approach to Vyazma. They have thwarted many an attack. [:@]

[vvs007]

ORIGINAL: RedJohn

Romanians, as ever, are fodder.

Good job. Something we do not see your brave corps, what SUs do they have? soon deep cavalry raids?

Are you not showing the map on a larger scale because the game is running without delay? Would like to screenshots in a more convenient scale (CV). Thx you

[RedJohn]

ORIGINAL: vvs007

ORIGINAL: RedJohn

Romanians, as ever, are fodder.

Good job. Something we do not see your brave corps, what SUs do they have? soon deep cavalry raids?

Are you not showing the map on a larger scale because the game is running without delay? Would like to screenshots in a more convenient scale (CV). Thx you

It's force of habit to avoid showing CVs. I'll include them in future screenshots and do a frontwide tour.

All of my corps have either rifle brigades or tank brigades as SUs. I lost around half of my AFVs in one battle with the tank brigades, and they're probably not reinforcing anytime soon, but the important thing is the wins. Even if they're 1/100 TOE, I believe, they will still get a win if the division wins combat.

My Guards Rifle Corps has if I recall either 2 rifle brigades and a tank brigade, or 3 rifle brigades. Rifle brigades are one of if not THE best Soviet SU. They're incredibly versatile multirole units.

I am partial to deep cavalry raids also, yes. As soon as there's a gap!

[RedJohn]

View of the front, turn 28. The axis forces are expected to get a reprieve next week with blizzards abating.

[RedJohn]

In the south, Batov and Fedyuninsky command the defence of Yalta and Sevastapol from their... boats, I guess? The downside to this is we don't get artillery activation's, obviously, but besides that it minimizes the risk of them being killed I think.