Workshop for the new guys - Directive 21 (D21)

[larryfulkerson]

This is the T26 view of Leningrad right now.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is the Tula area right now.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is what Kharkov looks like right now.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T27 and here's what it looks like around the Tula area right now. I'm making slow progress. I drove a recon unit up to the city to see what it has for defenders and there's not much there. I'm about to surround a large group of Soviet units prior to destroying them. I'm optimistic about the near future.

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[larryfulkerson]

I've managed to get into the surburbs of Leningrad and I've been pounding the stacks around the city and I'm using my engineers to leap the river and get into the Soviet backfield. The battles around Moscow are getting expensive. Several Soviet units have evaporated due to combat, when they are attacking me in the face of all my arty. Kharkov has been cleared out and I'm pushing eastward. Sevastopol is a fortress and my losses are heavy trying to take it with my Rumanians.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is the area between Kalinin and Rybinsk, which is my next local goal. I figure if I can control that town I can cut off the northern Soviet reinforcements from the rest of Russia for a while. I'm in favor in holding up the Soviets where ever I can. I've demarked a yellow brick road for my intended path to get there. I can effectively split the battlefields coming at me from the north and those coming at me from the east using this area to block both directions at the same time. That's the theory.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T28 just before the first combat phase. I'm aiming at the hex just south of Leningrad and simultaneously I'm trying to clear out the Soviet groups to the east. The Leningrad area will be cleared out entirely by T35 or so I predict. As soon as I capture Leningrad the Finns are released from having to stop at the stop line and the Leningrad area will be cleaned by the end of the next turn.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is what it looks like around the Moscow area right now. The front lines are dynamic and fluid. I'm using the river metaphore where I flow int the direction of least resistance to make progress. Progress is slow because of stiff Soviet resistance because they are resisting stiffly. The supply levels are more than adequate so there's no problem getting beans bullets and bandaids into the forward lines.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is the Tula area right now.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is what it looks like around the Sevastopol area right now. I've managed to collapse the Soviet defensive lines a little bit. I managed to get behind the Kerch Straits defenders and I plan to overcome them completely, repair the rails all the way to the port(s) and post some defenders of my own and concentrate on Rostov.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is T28 round 5 and I finally managed to capture Leningrad and now the Finns can drop down from the north and kill all the Soviet defenders and clear out the entire area. Now to concentrate on Moscow.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is T29 and I captured Leningrad and the Finns have dropped down from the north and are helping me kill all the Soviet defenders and clear out the entire area. The Soviets have built a stiff front line in the Moscow area and I'm having trouble in this area. Down south I have surrounded a group of Soviet units and are making them go away. Sevastopol is being attacked as we speak and will soon fall to the Axis.

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[larryfulkerson]

I captured Stalino last turn and I'm fighting several other Soviet groups in my advance toward Stalingrad. I'm thinking I can clear out this area by T35 or so.

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[larryfulkerson]

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[larryfulkerson]

I drove one of my engineer units to the supply point for Sevastopol capturing it driving all the Soviet units out of supply. There's only a couple of hexes left to grab. Time to start shipping the units toward Stalingrad.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's T30 and there's only a couple of places that I need to clear out still in the Leningrad area. Unfortunately, the two stacks of Soviet units are quite large and are being a pain in the ass to get rid of. I'm thinking of building a wall around them and making the Mexicans to pay for it. Then I'll put a tariff on them of 100%.

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[larryfulkerson]

I'm managing to hold back the red hordes so far but it's getting harder as time passes. They are so keen on attacking that several of their units have evaporated. I've been having to divide my units to have enough to cover the entire front line. But then so have the Soviets.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is out in the middle of nowhere particular but I drove a recon unit behind the Soviets front lines to try to cut them off. I still have a couple of hexes to go yet, maybe next turn.

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[larryfulkerson]

This is T32 before anybody has moved and there was good news and bad news. I captured Sevastopol finally but the first of the mud turns has started. My rail lines aren't putting out like they usually do and that leaves most of my front lines out of supply. So I've decided to just move appropriately but not attack so much. I've only got roughly 27K troops left so I gotta go easy on them for several turns.

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[larryfulkerson]

Here's what's going on near Tula. That was going to be my next local goal. But now that there's bad weather I think I'll postpone that until the spring. I'd rather concentrate on Moscow right now. Although, now that I've gotten Leningrad, Sevastopol, Odessa, et. al. I'm not in that big of a hurry any more. Plus, I'm down to just 27K+ troops and that may not be enough to survive the Soviet Winter Offensive. That will happen closer to T40 or so but it's coming and I'd like to be more ready for it.

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