TXX Events

[larryfulkerson]

I thought I'd do a cut and paste of a Soviet attack using CS and what the results are. This is typical of a Soviet strike.

Unescorted CAS against a LOT of fighters, no surprise they got butchered.

I quite agree, actually. And that gives me an idea. What about if I move all my fighters to one section of the front and then stage some kind of benign strike on something or other and when the Soviets launch their interception my resulting interception can interdict their interception party( or parties ). Maybe I can massacure all of their fighters one section of the front lines at a time.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T42 round 1 and this is the Rostov area right now. I forced my way into the city last turn and this turn I'm pushing units across the broken bridge to the other side of the river. The railhead passes through Rostov headed east. You can see what the supply values are per hex. I feel convinced that the supply levels will rise slowly over the next few turns. I'm wondering how many turns it would take to travel via rail from here to Berlin. It's two days from just west of Moscow to Berlin. That's only because the rail movement rate is decreased during the winter turns. I need to try to trap all the Soviet units defending near the Kertch Straits if at all possible. That would take a swing to the left at this spot and I don't know if I have enough boots on the ground to try something like that.

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[larryfulkerson]

It seems that the Finns have trapped some Soviet units in the southern part of the peninsula to the east of Leningrad. That's a good thing. And after they are all gone then comes the trek to Archangel.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T42 round 3 and this is a section of the front lines that's a spot on the road from Leningrad to Moscow and shows how I'm slowly pushing the Soviet units backward giving me ownership of the roads and rails I capture. The supply levels are adequate, just, and mud is still a major problem in that it stiffles movement of my units. I've broken enough bridges to make the supply levels for the Soviet player lower than it might have been given no broken bridges.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T43 round 2 and I seem to have managed to partially surround several Soviet unit groups down south to the NE of Rostov. It took a lot of effort to make this happen because of the mud. It's terrificly cold and the wind isn't helping things at all.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T43 round 4 and here's what's happening near Moscow right now. As you can see the lines are rather broken in this AO because of all the times I've been able to infiltrate his lines through tiny gaps and Elmer backs his units up so they won't get surrounded, resulting in a slow drift backward over several turns.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T44 round 1 and here's what's happening south of {b}Rostov[/b] right now. The rails are repaired all the way up to the front lines so the supply level is great on the rails and it drops off with distance from the rail. I'm still pushing units across the bridge into the environs beyond. Plus I sailed one of my brown water boats down here and was able to trace out some of the rivers in this AO.

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[rhinobones]

I quite agree, actually. And that gives me an idea. What about if I move all my fighters to one section of the front and then stage some kind of benign strike on something or other and when the Soviets launch their interception my resulting interception can interdict their interception party( or parties ). Maybe I can massacure all of their fighters one section of the front lines at a time.
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Larry, shame on you. You're turning a serious Eastern Front simulation into a gamey experience!!!!

Best Regards

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines as of T44 round 4.

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[larryfulkerson]

I quite agree, actually. And that gives me an idea. What about if I move all my fighters to one section of the front and then stage some kind of benign strike on something or other and when the Soviets launch their interception my resulting interception can interdict their interception party( or parties ). Maybe I can massacure all of their fighters one section of the front lines at a time.

Larry, shame on you. You're turning a serious Eastern Front simulation into a gamey experience!!!!

Best Regards

When you're being hassled by enemy INT strikes when moving your units try this: At the beginning of your turn embark an AA unit on the rail and move it all over the place so that it's intercepted over and over until the enemy strikes cease or your AA unit gets destroyed or get's disembarked with 0 movement points left.

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[larryfulkerson]

I stopped the Soviet turn to take a look at the Soviet supply situation and found to my delight that all that bridge busting has wrecked the supply levels at their front line. And they seem to have a large percentage of their force in the cherry red health condition. So far so good.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T45 round 4 and this is what Moscow looks like right now. I have managed to push a little closer to the city but the Soviets are counterattacking seriously and there's been large losses on both sides. The mud has dried up and it's easier to move around now. My shock is 115 and the Soviet shock is 90 and that helps.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is what the Sevastopol area looks like right now. I have managed to push a little closer to the city but there's more to do yet. I'm attacking a single hex at a time to give my arty a chance to do the max support they can provide. I've built an arty park within range and there's 9 arty units giving support for each attack. They are making a difference.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is what the Rostov area looks like right now. I have managed to push a lot of Romanian and Hungarian units across the bridge and Elmer replied by sending a lot of defenders north to contain my push and now we're fighting over river crossings again.

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[larryfulkerson]

I finally captured Voroshilovgrad and that's a good thing because I need the road/rail system that exists there. Capturing that base will allow the supply rail(s) to run through there to the east to feed my valient attackers. And the Romanians.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T45 round 5 and this is the area just west of Tula right now. Soviet forces made a breakthrough and I'm scrambling to find somebody to stop it. They blew a hole in my lines and at least 3 Soviets are on their way to drive through it. Most of my units are busy elsewhere and I have no reserve to employ so this may be a bigger problem than it looks on the surface.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is the area just north of Moscow right now. I destroyed enough Soviet forces to make a rather large gap in the Soviet lines and I'm in the process of taking advantage of it.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is the Sevastopol area as it exists just now. I've gained another hex closer to the city and the Romanians used their arty to blast away the Soviet defenders in the Kertch Straits to confront the last Soviet defenders in the two ports at the east edge of the peninsula. They will own those two ports in another turn or two. Then I'm going to bring all that Romanian arty over to Sevastopol to help accellerate the take down there.

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[larryfulkerson]

The Finns have cleared the road to Archangel to the south of the lake so the task now is to clear out rest of the peninsula and hold the south flank back and move some units out onto the road to the north. The Finns think they can do that and I asked the commander in the AO and he said he could be ready to move north in about "2 weeks".

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[larryfulkerson]

It is now T45 round 6 and the Romanians captured the southermost port with very high losses. I think I had higher losses in that attack because my arty is in the 60% percent range and I put them on 'T' instead of dedicating them to the attack and some of them didn't fire in the attack. However most of them did and the attack succeeded. Now to clear out the rest of the Soviet defenders, hopefully before they can escape to the east. Too bad the Axis side doesn't have any sea cap.

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