Nordlicht 1942 AAR Snefens vs. Telumar

[Curtis Lemay]

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EDIT: I am thinking when I load a save in the Beta I can use 'manpower estimate' for this and compare it to the fresh unit and/or formation in sce turn 1 or editor if not deployed on turn 1. This will give a precise result. Mail or PM me if you are interested I could do this for you too (or do you have access to dev forum yourself?)
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I was going to suggest that! But I'm not sure if I've posted the latest fix to that estimate.

[Telumar]

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EDIT: I am thinking when I load a save in the Beta I can use 'manpower estimate' for this and compare it to the fresh unit and/or formation in sce turn 1 or editor if not deployed on turn 1. This will give a precise result. Mail or PM me if you are interested I could do this for you too (or do you have access to dev forum yourself?)
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I was going to suggest that! But I'm not sure if I've posted the latest fix to that estimate.

If you mean an updated exe on the ftp server, no.

Apart from that, it would be nice to also have a percentage of current manpower compared to full strength displayed next to manpower estimate in the formation and unit reports. Something like this: Manpower Estimate: 825 (79%). Just saying.

[LLv34_Snefens]

Turn 26
September 21st

The Germans eliminate the last defenders near Sepelevo. Now only remnants of 13th Rifle Brigade and other smaller units hold out between Bol.Izhora and Oranienbaum (not shown)

The reinforcements brought in to the Chudovo attack shows good results. The Germans had retaken Radishchevo, but this day we take it back as well as push up on either side of the village. Also the more western axis pierces through the enemy defensive lines, but this direction is less important as the rear holds no real vital objectives.
Our attack against the eastern enemy bulge is unfortunately still unsuccessful.
North of all of this most of the planned artillery have come into place in the Pogost'ye salient. 259th RD of 4th Gd RC has railed to the area, but it is still weak from the offensive by Luzhno (<50% strength), and will instead take over the defense of the stronger 177th RD's lines (>85% strength) that has so far been defending the base of the Pogost'ye salient. This will then move south to be part of the follow up forces.

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South of Ramushevo enemy attacks once again cross the Volkhov by Cherenchitsy. Part of our lines we are able to reoccupy, but the enemy is too strong for us to push him back completely. We begin to pull out 45th Rifle Brigade that has so far been in 2nd Shock Army's sector and get it back to reinforce 1st Shock Army.
2nd Shock Army are unable to make any gains this day in a handful of attacks, but 11th Army starting it's offensive on the northern shoulder of the Ramushevo corridor this day advance 5km on either side of the Pola, although the town of Vasil'yevshchina withstand the initial attempt to take it on the move.
Supporting attacks west of this is somewhat successful, but at heavy losses. A bit of terrain is taken, including getting visuals on the main road from Ramushevo to Demyansk.

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[Telumar]

Turn 26, Sept. 21st - Crisis at the Pola river

Note: Screenshots show stack strengths

While 2nd Shock Army's offensive had stalled, on this day the Soviet 11th Army launched an offensive against the northern corridor front much earlier than expected. The first strikes of the offensive made some deep inroads north of the Pola river while in the central and western part of the Corridor the enemy advanced only 2.5 km in some places, but managed to cross the Pola next to Vasil'yeshchina. We have the advantage of interior lines here and by further shuffling forces from the "Winkelried" area of operations, from Zasovo opposite 2nd Shock Army and from the Demyansk sector we somehow manage to restore a coherent front line again (I marked these movements with the dashed lines on the map).
However I suffer an early end after the first combat round and the counterattack against 422nd Rifle Regt. that had crossed the Pola does not materialize. Worse, the section immediately south and southwest of that Rifle Regt is only screened by company sized units as I was expecting the attack to succeed and had used them to screen possible enemy retreat paths. A bigger disaster might loom here on the next turn....

Situation at the end of the turn (combat markers without arrows pointing into or at the hex were mere bombardments):

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At Chudovo the enemy offensive saw further successes and he was able to retake Radishchevo and to advance on both flanks of the town. Our attack against the western flank of Radishchevo fails. We also now retreated the exposed infantry battalion at the small salient at the Volkhov, luckily without any interference from the enemy. Our flank west of Radishchevo does look pretty weak now, but advancing into this area does not hold any rewards for the enemy, so we concentrate our defense in the area immediately south of Chudovo. This is the situation at the end of the turn:

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EDIT: Updated the Ramushevo corridor map (some Soviet attacks were missing)