Drive To The Caucasus - A 41 Campaign

[tm1]

Turn 38

Well going through my screen shots it looks like I completely missed saving any of them but from memory things continued to pick except in the South the Russians smashed through 6th Armee positions.

Its always 6th Armee this happens, my last 2 games as come to the end of the first winter the Russians hit them and breakthrough.

[tm1]

AG North Turn 39

I have launched a few attacks to push the Russians back in preparation for 18th Armee to take over 4th Pz Armee positions.


Quiet on 16th Armee's front.

AGN 39.jpg (1.16 MiB) Viewed 978 times

[tm1]

AG Centre Turn 39

In the centre I am able to contain the Orel breakout, also 9th and 3rd Pz Armee's launch a series of attacks forcing back the Soviets.

AGC 39.jpg (1.11 MiB) Viewed 977 times

[tm1]

Ag South Turn 39

The attack on the 6th Armee sector intensifies as the Russians push troops trough the gap.

Pressure on 17th and 1st Pz Armee's has eased somewhat as the AI focuses on attacking 6th Armee.

AGS 39.jpg (1.01 MiB) Viewed 975 times

[tm1]

Supply Turn 39

The situation continues to get better for my troops as flow food and material reaches the front line.

Supply 39.jpg (359.93 KiB) Viewed 974 times

[tm1]

Losses Turn 39

The Russians take some big losses and Wehrmacht confidence is running high.

Losses 39.jpg (390.72 KiB) Viewed 973 times

[tm1]

Air losses Turn 39

Both sides pay price for these heavy attacks, still its a 2 to 1 ratio.

A Losses 39.jpg (392.67 KiB) Viewed 972 times

[tm1]

OB Turn 39

Our armoured forces are improving with new supply situation.

OB 39.jpg (309.25 KiB) Viewed 970 times

[Stamb]

Do you replace default leaders? As you have a lot of AP. I think that at that time, March `41 i had much less AP. But I did build a bunch of FZ.

[tm1]

Do you replace default leaders? As you have a lot of AP. I think that at that time, March `41 i had much less AP. But I did build a bunch of FZ.

Yes normally I would do it before the end of 1941 but i decided on a different approach to this game and chose to use a lot of AP to repair Rail head depots.

leaders changed so far

Erich Marcks - II Korps

Walther Von Seydiltz-Kurcbach - XXXXII Korps

Walther Nehring - 4th Pz Armee

Erich Von Manstein - Army Group North

Heinz Guderian - OKH

There will be more changes coming soon.

You may be thinking who the hell are the two Korps Commanders, while they are quite good quality leaders they have interesting histories.

cheers

[Stamb]

Can you explain why do you move Manstein and especially Guderian to OKH? OKH will receive only a little bit of all of the failed checks and has /80 chance to pass it
Corps /10. Army /20. AG/40. OKH /80, if i am not mistaken.

I try to use best leaders on a corps lvl and only then on an army lvl, while ignoring AG and OKH completely.

[Stamb]

Screen from a manual:

Screenshot from 2022-03-13 00-41-01.png (155.71 KiB) Viewed 912 times

[Stamb]

Overall there is always not enough AP for an Axis in `41. Leaders, FZ, depots. Sometimes some leaders might be replaced automatically...
But you are doing very well. Even after first winter red army is still < 4mil. I think you will have great success in the summer

[tm1]

Can you explain why do you move Manstein and especially Guderian to OKH? OKH will receive only a little bit of all of the failed checks and has /80 chance to pass it
Corps /10. Army /20. AG/40. OKH /80, if i am not mistaken.

I try to use best leaders on a corps lvl and only then on an army lvl, while ignoring AG and OKH completely.

Ok well firstly while I know about the leadership checks and its importance to have high quality commanders, I have seen table you have posted,but I breezed over it when going through the manual.

The other reason I put both guys in high places was they are Pz Commanders, I got it into my head that there skills in armoured fighting would flow down through the chain of command.

looking at the table in more detail I see now that I am probably wasting them there,I have noticed in prior games that my troops were not getting supplied better with a lot of penalties in leadership skills.

Another more personal reason changing certain commanders was from a moral base , lets just say Keitel or Jodl will never be in my games.

This is why I play PVE only, still way to much to learn looks like I am looking at the Command structure from the wrong end first.

Any suggestions as a good OKH and Army Group commander, I guess I could put Halder back at OKH,

cheers

[tm1]

AG North Turn 40

The Finns begin to arrive and I have started moving 18th Armee into positions where by I can pull 4th Pz out.

Also launched more front wide attacks against the Russians routing quite a few units.

The first reports of Guards units have now come in, these of course will be priority targets in the coming months.

AGN 40.jpg (1.19 MiB) Viewed 861 times

[tm1]

AG Centre Turn 40

More general attacks on the central front pushing back Russian forces 4th Armee and 2nd Pz Armee are containing the Orel breakout and are in a position to trap some units.

Further south of Orel is still worrying as the Russian breakthrough there moves further behind my lines, for safety reasons a number of Armee / Korps HQ's were moved to a safer area while our forces try to seal the hole in the line.

[tm1]

AG South Turn 40

large scale attacks against Russian positions also pushes there troops back, trying to clear them so that I can have some space and our troops are not in contact with the enemy and causing fatigue.


Morale is high now among the troops they feel they have weathered the storm and will soon be ready to counter strike.

AGS 40.jpg (1.03 MiB) Viewed 856 times

[tm1]

Supply Turn 40

Our supply situation is now really good with only a few individual Armee's low.

Even the Axis Allied Armies are doing pretty good.

Supply 40.jpg (361.16 KiB) Viewed 855 times

[tm1]

Losses Turn 40

The Red Army took a beating this week with nearly 600 AFV's destroyed.

The Russian losses are at almost 6 million.

Losses 40.jpg (390.7 KiB) Viewed 854 times

[tm1]

Air losses Turn 40

Well there had to be price to pay for enemy's ground losses and it cost me just over 300 planes including over 200 bombers.

The Russians lost double my losses.

A Losses 40.jpg (394.02 KiB) Viewed 853 times