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It appears that the Germans put those assault craft left over from Sea Lion to good use!

I thought that maybe I should try something daring to break up the logjam at the riverbank. And the paratroopers were busy elsewhere so fortunately there was a port left open by my opponent and the chance for an invasion just happened to present itself. I'm not sure what Sea Lion is but it sounds good.

Also in the deep south I employed the FJ paratroopers to back up my plans to liquidate the front lines quickly. And it worked so well that it was one of those semi-magic tricks....now you see it ( the Soviet line of units ), and now you don't:

Turn 15 ended in a early turn ending so I didn't have a chance to re-set all the bombers from combat support to interdiction missions like I usually do. So the Soviets are going to get another turn without interdiction. This has happened only once before earlier so I guess I can't complain all that much. Here is the list of aircraft, their locations, missions, and current strength: [ the four at the bottom, on rest missions, are Turkish aircraft and they have never been used. They give an indication of the strength of brand new aircraft so you can compare that with the current strength of the planes I've been flying since the game began ]

I usually like to attack a Soviet stack first with a throw-away unit to get it to unentrench.....sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, but at least on those times where it works it's pretty cool. Attacking an unentrenched Soviet unit is less costly than attacking a Soviet unit dug-in and when you have more than one combat round it's at least worth a try. I've been using my AT guns for the first attack attempt as you can see from this picture of the PJ status....the are all in the red or at least yellow:

I've been in the habit of resting my arty units when they get down to about 39% supply or so. Sometimes the combat situation calls for arty fire reguardless of supply situation but most of the time I can afford to rest them. Here's a report on the status of the arty units so far:

Here's the moves minimovie from turns 12 throu 16:

Here starts a series of close-ups starting at the north sector:

[ here's what's happening near Leningrad ]

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And near Odessa:

Here's a shot of the north of Sevestapol area:

I believe the Axis forces destroyed 37 Soviet units in turn 16: 27 INF types, 2 Armoured Divisions, 5 Guns, and 3 naval units. Here's the Axis losses so far:

Here's the north half of the front lines as they looked at the end of turn 16:

Here's the south half of the front lines as of the end of turn 16:

Here's a smaller view of the entire front lines:

I thought my last attack had killed the partisan and was in the process of pulling my troops back to the roads for better supply and the Soviet dude got a disengagement shot at my security unit and I realized that I had left a surviving partisan in the hex. Drats.

Here's the moves minimovie from turns 13 throu 17: