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3rd battle hex east of Pskov

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3rd Battle Hex east of Pskov

Manstein himself Hasty attacks Vatutin's 112 Rifle division and forces a retreat. I try and move as little as possible during my turn to build CPP & keep fatigue down. All in all I am happy on this battle even though I am using direct Army chain of command instead of an intermediate Corps HQ. Vatutions' HQ is close to full strength but I still had another horrid roll Must be some penalty for Soviets too the first turns OR I just sux at rolls for the Soviets Will talk about air cover in the next snapshot.

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3rd battle Air Results

I had mentioned in another AAR post about how many fighters to bombers you want to have. Here you can see I kept that ratio & was able to protect my bombers from harm. Yes, I lost a crap load of fighters but they did their job well. The figthers also shot down 4 BF-109s. I am happy so far with this result too with my Fighters gaining 2 experience on that fight. If I can bomb and not have a loss in bombers I am happy.

*** I also had 3 Air Superiority missions set up but the battle took place outside of the battle zone. In those AS directives I have Mig's flying high, Yaks flying Medium, and Lagg's flying low level AS missions.

**** My Ground Support missions are set up to have a minimum of 4 Fighter squadrons escorts to 1 bomber squadron. I then assign each Army that GS. Thus the Leningrad front has three GS missions for each of the 3 Front line HQ's. Thats a lot of Fighters (This does not include the 3 AS missions being flown either. I will increase the AS to 6 in this area soon enough(if I get enough fighters that is))

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Pskov Air Drops

Germans do air drops on Pskov. The Soviets decide to....

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Pskov Supply drops don't go uncontested. My new appointed Air commander shows he likes to fight. With 3 supply drops to Pskov Falakeev intercepts all three I will take easy wins for experience.

Battle 1 of 3

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Pskov Supply drop

Battle 2 of 3

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Pskov Supply drop

Battle 3 of 3

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Velikie Luki

City was taken last turn. I just didn't have the units to safely contest the area to my standards.

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Smolensk

I also gave up Smolensk without a fight last turn. I am not a believer of putting up to 10 Division in Smolensk for a City Fort this early. I gave up the City and spared the divisions for placement elsewhere. I can think of better places to put City forts but this early in the game I am not going to let go of good divisions for a possible no gain or 1 or 2 turn delay at a cost of up to 10 divisions. I will choose a better place & time.

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Center

Gomel area given up without a fight. Pretty much in my AAR with Bobo this is where I am as a German in the Gomel area with the Soviets going to have a loss of 11 divisions. I saved those divisions for later as a comparison. I can't keep the retreat up forever & I am playing with fire. But I do have a line I start to fight at & I know the German situation for supply. So see if I can calculate this correctly. Otherwise I am going to have a big fat LOSS in this game.

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Kiev

I give up Kiev saving units. Again, playing with fire here because of Sudden Death Victory condition.

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Kirovograd

Advance in the South. Pretty much where I am at in my Bobo game without loss of Divisions. Am I right to do it this way? Probably not because of how fast railheads advance now along with super depot. But lets play it out.

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Odessa

Odessa given up to save the Divisions for another day. A German will blockade the port & force the City Fort Garrison to surrender in a couple of turns at most. The Soviets may gain a turn or two at the cost of up to 10 Divisions. I am not going to play that game. The divisions are saved, refitted and will be used elsewhere while the Germans run to catch up.

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Rumania

The two Soviets divisions are eliminated.

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Manpower

Not bad since my Inf divisions are pretty much filled up. Granted my Armor & Mech probably never will be anywhere close to the ToE I want them. But I am controlling those with minimum or no ToE advancement. Artillery is still going to stay at Stavka with almost all at 50%. Some are set to 100% Stavka and handed out to prime Armies for combat.

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Ground losses since last turn

This is going to sky high here in the next few turns.

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Air losses

Still not very heavy air losses. I am sure this is going to sky rocket in the coming turns too.

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Pilots

Here are my Trained pilots.

You've earned your 4th Pearl. Keep it in your pocket for later.

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

You've earned your 4th Pearl. Keep it in your pocket for later.

You know how I feel about Soviet Calvary. Thank you for this information.