GC Republican AAR

[RangerJoe]

Another rather quiet turn. REPs are expanding in the East. NATs in the West and the North.

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Did you know that you are winning?

How can you tell that you are winning? You might wonder. Because you are destroying more squads than you are losing and by quite a few squads.

You will be receiving more reinforcements even though they are poorly trained but that will enable you to push where the enemy is weaker and then you can reduce the enemy's on map supply production. You also should be getting aerial superiority, you should be bombing his units in the open and especially the units that are moving.

[jwilkerson]

Need another map view of the Zaragossa area !

[Rysyonok]

Did you know that you are winning?

How can you tell that you are winning? You might wonder. Because you are destroying more squads than you are losing and by quite a few squads.

You will be receiving more reinforcements even though they are poorly trained but that will enable you to push where the enemy is weaker and then you can reduce the enemy's on map supply production. You also should be getting aerial superiority, you should be bombing his units in the open and especially the units that are moving.

Good point. I think I would have preferred a Campaign-to-Date tally of the destroyed units over the last turn totals, to be honest. Or Both. One turn does not tell a story. A week, might.

[Rysyonok]

Need another map view of the Zaragossa area !

Heard.

[Rysyonok]

Overall, things are positive for the REP forces in the area. Some NATs were chased into the mountains. Some are falling back North. Barges are routinely sending up supply from Barcelona while picking up the remnants of NAT trophies - I'm still yet to make use of those, truly. There are a couple of regiments floating southeast of Zaragoza, but it's a matter of days at best. Up North, though, we still have a problem. And then there's that huge stack by two rivers that keeps enjoying ART pounding and 10+ squad losses per turn...

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[Rysyonok]

The turn of scouts, pillaging what's availabe.

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[Rysyonok]

Ex-Malaga and Ex-Granada REP forces are sent North - what if we take Cordoba before AI realizes there are no REPs in the south?

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[jwilkerson]

Need another map view of the Zaragossa area !

Heard.

Thanks !

[Rysyonok]

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[Rysyonok]

(Still alive - handling some other priorities - back soon)

[jwilkerson]

We're still waiting

[Rysyonok]

Wow, I guess, it's been a while! So, let me tell you all about my life lately <skip 3 minutes option activated> and we're right back into action! West of Malaga it's quiet. I got 2 small groups raiding empty bases and one more recovering. Patrol boats will sail once more towards Africa in hopes of capturing something. There is a heavy stack of PA and FBs set to 18-range and 1000-altitude - enough to cover the sea from Malaga and for some deadly hits (given and received).

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[Rysyonok]

A quiet turn.

AI, I bet, is re-evaluating the positions after such a lull. So do I.
Republican-USSR ties are grudgingly re-established. A couple more convoys start to move in both directions.

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[Rysyonok]

Gijon-Oviedo:

Quiet. Lots of small NAT units on the loose or still struggling with my residual garrisons. REPs have a 3K HQ stack in Oviedo, a small INF in Gijon, and a scouting cavalry unit.

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Santander-Bilbao:

Quiet on the left, lots of NAT activity on the right. I'm trying my all-or-nothing strategy again and I'm sending the best chunks of Santander garrison east to Bilbao.

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San Sebastian:

There are 2 NAT-REP encounters with roughly equal number of men, so I'm going to concentrate once again. The REP stack from Pamplona - these are my Barcelona, Cartagena troops! - will charge west to appropriate a huge NAT supply train stack then curve north to relieve San Sebastian. My logistics is starting to fail as I am yet to have 100% control around Zaragosa, so I'm desperately counting on the Northern cities' supply to start flowing to the main army.

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[Rysyonok]

Canaveral remains a mess. It's useless for REP, but for NAT it's the only railroad link to the north. Compared to the beginning of the campaign, both sides amped up their forces at least 5x. REPs appear to have more, but many need rest.

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[Rysyonok]

Oof, Germans flat out sink a REP transport. Okay, now it's on for real.

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[Rysyonok]

Troops north of Zaragosa are falling back - there are HQ units coming up from Barcelona, so we're going to try some merging. Overall, NAT resistance north of Zaragosa is stout.

Edit: The orders were lost by WiS, we will re-try later.

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[Rysyonok]

A rather subdued turn compared to orders given - but apparently WIS does not save orders in real-time, so when I pressed "load game" instead of "save game", that was it - I'm going to blame this one on inefficient REP radio communications equipment

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[Rysyonok]

Okay - still blaming this on poor Intel and over-zealous commander reporting, but here's another 10/17/36 turn(?!). Strategically, there's not much difference, REPs are consolidating, NATs are sneaking in an attack here or there. NAT Airforce is definitely becoming a nuisance.

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[Rysyonok]

Not much to report. Whether any turns were lost, miscounted, doubled up, it's all good. We're rolling.

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