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ORIGINAL: cesteman
Are you trying to make them exploit your line and then cut them off and surround those pesky units?

Hey, that's a great idea. Like the pawn gambit, dangle an irrestable treat and when they go for it....spring the trap on 'em. Thanks, I like that. Nah, I just wasn't looking around when I should be before moving my unit(s). Mistake I made....will probably happen again before too long.

I figured out that I'm losing on average about 1300 Heavy Rifle Squads per turn. That's about 3 times how many I'm making each turn.

But on the other hand the Soviets are losing about 3100 Rifle squads per turn....that's about 2000 more than they are making each turn.

Larry,
 
Directive 21 sets the Attrition Divider at 6.  With the Attrition Divider set at 6, I would expect the battles to be bloodier.  Much bloodier.  I think that is what you are experiencing.

Here's the minimap movie showing the moves from turns 3 throu 7:

Here's a series of images showing the close-up of the moves starting in the northernmost sector and working our way to the south. First the north sector:

And the next sector to the south: [ this is the view that shows me surrounding the city of Minsk ]

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the southernmost sector:

Here's the north half of the front lines at the end of turn 7:

Here's the south end of the front lines at the end of turn 7:

By my careful calculations I destroyed 29 Soviet units in turn 7:

Here's the Soviet losses so far by turn 7's end:

And here's the Axis losses by the end of turn 7:

Here's the minimap moves movie showing the moves from turns 4 throu 8:

Now I start a series of close-up moves movies starting at the north sector going south:

And the next sector to the south: [ please notice that the Axis forces captured Minsk in this turn ]

And the next sector to the south: