Tdv vs Kuniworth - new campaign

[Kuniworth]

New campaign with me as the russians. Tdv(Ippolet) plays the germans.


6/22/41

Turn 1 - Retreat!


German opening attack strikes deep on most parts of the front. The whole red army is on the retreat.


FINISH FRONT;
No action, karelian forces retreats towards Leningrad.

NORTH;
Panzers outside Riga.

CENTER;
Deep penetration smashes defence closing in on Minsk. Westfront shattered.

SOUTH;
Aggressive assault in Zhitomir direction. Lvov holds but 2 mech corps is in trouble.

Rumanian forces moves in to Bessarabia preparing an attack. 4(!) new panzerkorps formed in this area.


recalled soviet losses

7800 squads
2000 AFV
3000 guns
7000 aircraft

[Kuniworth]

6/29/41

Turn 2

Retreat continues, and Ippolets panzers are moving fast. Bypassing cities and units the panzers pace is causing trouble.

NORTH;
Riga falls, Baltic front retreats but some units are caught.

CENTER;
Mins is surrounded and the panzers advance forward, Western front is fleeing for life.

SOUTH;
Panzers advance east of Zhitomir and then swungs south to connect with panzers in Bessarabia. A lot of units surrounded west of Zhitomir, great play Ippolet!

Russian southern wing is routed. New defence-line will be formed.

Total soviet losses

10146 squads
3508 AFV
3780 Guns
7091 Aircraft

[Kuniworth]

7/6/41

Turn 3 - Panic


NORTH;
The enemy at the gates of Pskov concetrating large panzer-formations here and south to the area near Vitebsk. The german advance is to fast, new defence-lines beeing created in a hurry.


CENTER;
Minsk still holds but is beeing evacuated due to the heavy pressure. Retreat towards Mogilev.


SOUTH;
Enemy outside Kiev, fresh formations on it´s way to stabilize defence. Garrisons formed in every ukrainian city.

South front near Uman under enormous pressure.

[Kuniworth]

7/13/41

Turn 4


German panzer-spearheads continues to surge forward. Multiple defencelines is formed but very weak at some points.

NORTH;
Panzers cuts railroad to Estonia trapping 27th army. The vital railroadjunction west of Demyansk falls. Panzers will reach Leningrad next turn or very soon. The red army can´t retreat any longer.

CENTER;
The enemy seems to be concetrating on Leningrad/Demyansk area. Panzers 3 hexes north of Smolensk but Mogilev not attacked yet. German troops outside of Vitebsk.

SOUTH;
All efforts are made to avoid the enemy from crossing the dniepr. All crossing points are beeing guarded but how long will it hold? Kiev still hold but are in trouble.

[Kuniworth]

8/3/41

Nothing new really, german panzers are resting or beeing unable to break down the russian defence. Now all german infantry has moved up in position so a big attack may be unfolding. Last turn german Afrika korps surrendered and that may cause a break on the wehrmachts war effort. The red army holds a solid line stretching from Leningrad-Novgorod-Demyansk-Rhzev-Vitebsk-Smolensk-Mogilev-Gomel-Kiev-Dnepropetrovsk.

[Kuniworth]

8/10/31

Kiev falls! Dnepr-defence holds but south of Zaphorache panzers have moved to the gates of Stalino. In the north all is quiet.

[Kuniworth]

8/31/41

For a month the eastern front have turned to a trench war. The german advance was haltered along the dniepr and despite a few breaktroughs the front remained static. But the growing strength of the wehrmacht pays off as gaps are beeing tored in russian lines. The russian frontline is like a dam, solid but to many small gaps may cause it to break. That´s what is happening now in the center.


NORTH;
All quiet in the northern trenches. No german advances for a long time now.


CENTER;
The russian line between Smolensk-Gomel totter and then starts retreating before the panzer onslaught. A lot of russian armies surrounded as a result, attempts are beeing made to cut off the german pincers. The whole sector is now in jeopardy.


SOUTH;
Dniepr-line holds but Dnepropetrovsk and Zaphoroche have fallen. German troops crosses the Kerch-strait in to the caucasus. Some german frontline units cut off and attacked.