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T13 End. 18th and 16th Armies side shift in a South Easterly Direct to bring Kalinin into their area of Operations.

T13 End. Panzer Group 4 takes positions ready to support the drive on Moscow, refitting on the way.

End T13. Panzer Group 3 positions itself to outflank a large concentration of defenders.

End T13. While Panzer Group 2 prepares to encircle Orel.

T13 End. AGS make slow progress towards Kharkov.

T13 End. 11th Army slowly outflanks Ztown and Dtown.

T13 End. GD motorised carries out a reconnaissance towards the Taman.

Bob, what's your intended "stop and dig in" line?

For the purposes of testing the blizzard, I am following the historical line of going all out until the blizzard hits. I may start digging in in the north. I may take some units that I will use in reserve out of the line for R&R, but probably only 1 div per corps.

End T14. Panzer Group 3 probes for weaknesses in the SU line southwest of Moscow.

End T14. Panzer Group 2 isolates Orel.

End T14. XL panzer corps arrives from OKH reserves as a mini pocket is formed at Poltava.

End T14. The Italian Expeditionary force finally joins the front line and will be contributing it's vast combat potential to the struggle.

End T14. Sevastopol and Kerch Straights are in sight of the Rumanians.

T14 Losses.

T14 Soviet unit losses. Nearly 150 units that I know are being refitted and will be thrown at me during the forthcoming Blizzard.

T14 OOB. A couple more pockets are needed to get SU manpower levels below Axis levels. I believe this happened historically after the Vyazma pocket in Late October/Early November, I'm sure someone will be along with the exact date.

Start of T15. Haven't suffered the Blizzard set backs , but 2 out of 3 Army Group commanders get fired!

Wow, 2 AGs leader gone. Well this morning Gary tweaked the dismissals as we were seeing too many German dismissals and not enough Soviet in Lee's tests. I asked for 10-20% less German dismissals and 10-20% more Soviet, and even more in 41, and Gary tried to comply. However he warned that the formulas are very hard to predict so only further testing will show if we're getting more Soviet dismissals and less German and in the desired quantities. Have you been bouncing on a lot of your attacks? Given your good progress these seem like very harsh results.

Leader report end of T14 before they were fired. AGC has been bouncing off the Moscow defences a bit and Trey has been bashing motorised divs at every opportunity.