Part 3 of FitE 5.0

[larryfulkerson]

The Soviets were able to plug the holes in the front lines everywhere except in the Kherson area.  Stakva thinks it might be best to do a fighting withdrawl to a new front line further to the east and south:
 

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Before any combat in Axis turn 20, here's some Axis losses so far:
 

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Here's a chart of the objective cities, green for captured by the Axis already, red for not captured by the Axis yet:
 

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The Axis spent some time attempting to fly the airborne Brandenbergers from one end of the map to the other and the Soviets attempted to shoot them down.  This is the result of the furballs that occured:
 

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The Axis has the MP units busy converting enemy hexes to friendly ones and quite by accident an MP unit stumbled upon a partisan unit that appeared, appearently out of thin air.  The Axis needs to scan the map more carefully before moving anything each turn to catch these partisans before they can damage railroads, etc:
 

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Now that the front lines have stabilized for quite some time the Axis railroad guys have caught up repairing the rails almost to the front lines all along the front:
 

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The Axis high command decided to drop the FJ division behind enemy lines to help bottle up and trap some Soviet divisions:
 

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Here's some Soviet losses so far ( just before the combat rounds start in turn 20 ):

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The Axis has either broken through the lines or they are close to breaking through in several places:
 

[duckenf]

what do the tank losses for the allies and axis look like? The Soviets seem to be more than holding their own in the infantry exchanges -- losses of c. 33% vs 50% for the Axis, plus plenty of replacements for the Russians and very little for the Axis.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the whole Axis losses so far ( before combat rounds start in turn 21 ):
 

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Here's the Soviet losses so far ( as of turn 21 ):
 

 
NOTE:  due to a short circut between the ears I somehow skipped turn 21 for both the Axis and the Soviets.
 
 

[larryfulkerson]

I had to go through the entire inventory of Brandenburgers but I finally got at least one to a point where he could help surround some Soviet divisions, although I'm not complaining much because of all the Soviet planes I shot down in the attempts:
 

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Here's the Axis air loss report after the third combat round:

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Here's the moves for turn 22:
 

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Here's what the Soviet air loss report has to say:
 

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Here's some soviet losses ( before any combat rounds in turn 22 ):
 

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Here's some Axis losses so far ( before any combats in turn 23 ):
 

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With some more air drops of the FJ division the Soviet front is pretty much wrapped up to the East of Odessa:
 

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The Axis had an early turn ending, so this is the moves for turns 21 thru 23: