Steel Inferno: AG A – Part I: Race for the Caucasus (Solo AAR)

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Turn 4 Loss by Phase:

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17th Army, XXXXIX Mountain Corps (1st and 4th Mountain Div., 2nd Rum. Mtn. Div., 73rd Inf. Div. and the Bergmann Ost Mtn. Regt.), I have moved this into Ladozhaskaya to refit and get ready to push south in the Caucasus.

I also redistributed almost all the SU units around in various HQs in 1st Panzer Army and also 17th Armies XXXXIX Mtn. Corps. I'll need to reattach V Corps to 17th Army when I move the 17th Army HQ.

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Depot and RR repair route.

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Events

Wo ist die Luftwaffe


Partisans:

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Air Directives:


Closer look:
https://i.imgur.com/MYTR6v6.jpg

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Air Execution Summary:

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Withdrawals:


Lost the GD.

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End of Turn:


Closer look:
https://i.imgur.com/BwPYrUw.jpg

Notes:

Moved forward, no attacks, most units are still at 0 to 40 CPPs.

Transfered XXXXIV Corps to 17th Army, found a big Soviet stack and maybe cut it off.

Moved 17th Army HQ to Salsk and the XXXXIX Mtn Corps is still trying to refit. LI Corps (111th Inf. Div.) is west of Krasnodar.

Pushed V Corps forward against my better judgement, but time is ticking off.

LVII Pz Corps is still resting and refitting both units are at 45 and 46% CPP.

XXXX Pz Corps is still encircling Krasnodar.

Moved the Cav RM Corps into the Taman Peninsula.

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End of turn losses by Phase:


Pretty low losses this turn.

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Soviet turn 5 was mostly just air transport of freight to Krasnodar.

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Events

Kalmuck


Partisans:

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Arrivals:


Reinforcements:

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Air Directives (zoomed out):


Zoomed in:


NOTES:

Mostly set some Recon across the map, also setup an AS mission to whack any transport missions in the Soviet turn in/at Krasnodar and also setup a NP mission to disrupt the ports; Novorossiysk, Golendzhik and Tuapse.

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Air Execution Summary:


Got some good Naval interdiction here. Note I selected the 100 KG and changed their load outs to use mines and got some good effects.

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On map results of NP:


Closer look:
https://i.imgur.com/cKPvdXu.jpg

Not as good as I had hoped. Will fix up the AD next turn.

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End of turn 6 positions:


Closer look:
https://i.imgur.com/VBhSqJi.jpg

NOTES:

XXXXIV Corps has trapped three units, a NKVD Rifle Division, the 406th Rifle Division and the 9th Mountain Division.

V Corps is still resting and refitting, lost of Soviets to the east and our CPPs are low and or fatigue is high.

III Panzer Corps (only the 23rd Panzer Division) is now at 94 CPP, but is waiting on its sister corps (LVII) or the V Corps.

LVII Panzer Corps (16th Mot. Inf. Div. and Wiking SS Mot. Inf. Div.) is now at 95 and 96 CPP. Ready to strike next turn.

XXXXIX Mountain Corps is at 60-70 CPP and posed and almost ready to launch.

XXXX Panzer Corps is still between 25-65 CPP and LII Corps 111th Inf. Div. is at 29 CPP.

Cav RM. Corps flipped the Taman Peninsula and is resting.

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End of turn Loss by Phase:

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During turn 6 the Soviets tried to resupply Krasnodar twice, losing 3 fighters (LaGG-3) and 3 transports (Li-2) in the process with no loss to the Germans. The AS mission I set here worked out pretty well.

The first mission has 2 Bf 109G-2 versus 12 LaGG-3 and 5 Li-2, with the no losses to the Germans and 1 Li-2 lost.

The second mission has 11 Bf 109G-2 versus 7 LaGG-3 and 2 Li-2, with no losses to the Germans again and the Soviets loosing 3 LaGG-3 and 2 Li-2 in A2A combat.

Second AS mission:

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Events

Bluecher:


Partisans:

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Air Directives

North:


Closer look:
https://i.imgur.com/JBPe9aL.jpg

South:


Closer look:
https://i.imgur.com/Vn8FJUr.jpg

NP: