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ORIGINAL: Drakken

I am very, very, very busy these next two weeks, I can barely scrap some time to do my Central Front this turn. All my PBEMs are on break.

Since psych0 has done the evacuation last turn, I delegate to him the privilege of pressing the End Turn button this turn.

Oh oh, the German team will probably start raging again [8|] haha.

Alright, so Psych0 will do the end turn. I will get my shit together on my PC. and we will be waiting 2 weeks for your return.

Are we waiting two weeks for Drakken or did he say he would have time to do his turn in this game?

I'd like to press ahead as quickly as possible if we can.

I volunteer to do the soviet supreme command beginning and end if you guys need help. Just be aware if I do it I do it my way and you will be happy about it period ! Do not worry I wont do anything extreme like disband all soviet armour divisions and brigades, and then assign 5 independent armour regiments per army HQ (cough). Seriously I will NOT do anything crazy and I am more then qualified to handle the turn from a game hours played stand point. Did I mention I am also very humble [8D]

ORIGINAL: thedoctorking

Are we waiting two weeks for Drakken or did he say he would have time to do his turn in this game?

I'd like to press ahead as quickly as possible if we can.

I will find time to do it tonight. It was not my intention to let you people drag on for two weeks because of me.

Air Command goes first, however. As soon as wallas is done with his Turn I'll come in.

ORIGINAL: Drakken

ORIGINAL: thedoctorking

Are we waiting two weeks for Drakken or did he say he would have time to do his turn in this game?

I'd like to press ahead as quickly as possible if we can.

I will find time to do it tonight. It was not my intention to let you people drag on for two weeks because of me.

Air Command goes first, however. As soon as wallas is done with his Turn I'll come in.

As soon as I see the file Soviet Command Done I Will Do My Turn

Yes, I think we're waiting on Supreme Command right now.

Yes Wallas, go ahead and finish the turn, and then start it with the air turn.

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

Yes Wallas, go ahead and finish the turn, and then start it with the air turn.

Will do soviet supreme command turn and my air turn when I get home tonight.

From: Supreme Soviet Air Commander Wallas, STAVKA Temporary, Soviet Union
To: General of the Army thedoctorking, Northern Front; General of the Army psych0, Southern Front; General of The Army drakken, Centre Front

July 10th, 1941

Southern Front Plan

Situation critical in Southern Sector. the Nazi Panzer Group South is at the gates to Krivoi Rog, completely overrunning Yuzhny Bug river. This has created a huge pocket around Odessa surrounding the 9th army and over 30 divisions of Southwestern Front. 9th army is order to fortify Odessa and will be supplied by sea until the seige is lifted.

Evacuate everything at once toward the Dnepr river, making a retreat in step to slow down the Fascists while you build your Main Line of Resistance along the Dnepr. Your first objective is to preserve your army. The aim is not make a stand at those temporary lines, but to buy time as you bring reinforcements to the Dnepr and build your forts.

The Dnepr, however is to be held and fought for. Make the Fascists pay in blood for every meter they pass over the River! The Ingulets river must be held and no German divisions must be allowed adjacent to Dnepropetrovsk or Zaporohye.

Northern Front Plan

In the North, significant Panzer Divisions have broken out and captured Gdov and threaten Narva. The Luga river must be held and the Leningrad rail and supply lines must stay intact to Leningrad. Your orders are very simply commander do not let Leningrad be isolated or the Volkhov river be crossed. Northwest Front has complete freedom of movement to support Leningrad Front.

Centre Commander

In the Centre, the Dnepr river must be held you have freedom of movement as you see fit but under no circumstance do you lose the Dnepr river from Rzev down to Gomel.


AP are 15 each for North, Centre, South, and Air. The rest will be kept by STAVKA for the formation of the reserve front.

Until further notice all rail is assigned to industry only, men will need to walk. All front commander have freedom to reinforce there fronts with any STAVKA divisions as they see fit.

I have begun my turn, but I am too tired to continue it tonight. I have to think where I will put my line south of Smolensk.

NP mate this is suppose to be fun not machine gun WiTE I hope, lol. Drakken I kept my footprint to a minimum for supreme command this turn I did the bare minimum for the reserve front and I would assume they would assign it to you going forward. It is kinda plugging the gap between you and the north, so I will leave it up to supreme command to decide its future fate.

Centre turn is done. My deepest apologies for the long delay. [:o]

OK, North done. Moved the 69th Rifle Corps up to cover Velikie Luki, replacing those cowardly paratroopers... Covered the Luga line with a screen and piled up in front of the tanks in the Piepus region. Left a screen around Pskov to slow things down there. Evacuated most of the Finnish frontier, heading for the narrow point north of Lake Ladoga.

Used my 15 Admin points replacing commander of 8th Army.

Also started marching some reinforcements towards the front, hope nobody minds. Since we have no more rail capacity.

Not building fortifications just east of Leningrad to eventually protect the port lifeline?

Will do south turn and industry evac later today. I guess I hit 'end turn' after that?

ORIGINAL: Psych0

Not building fortifications just east of Leningrad to eventually protect the port lifeline?

Will do south turn and industry evac later today. I guess I hit 'end turn' after that?

We don't have the AP for fortifications right now, unfortunately. I had an allocation of 15 and have a couple of generals who really need to command 'research stations' in Siberia. I'm not expecting to actually hold Leningrad, just stall the fascists long enough for the factories to be evacuated. I'm hoping to be able to hold the line of the Volkhov down to the mountains and on to the sources of the Volga as my main line of resistance. And the river/lake line at the north end of Lake Ladoga against the Finns.

I think somebody already moved factories. We have a rail cap of 196.

ORIGINAL: thedoctorking

ORIGINAL: Psych0

I'm not expecting to actually hold Leningrad, just stall the fascists long enough for the factories to be evacuated. I'm hoping to be able to hold the line of the Volkhov down to the mountains and on to the sources of the Volga as my main line of resistance. And the river/lake line at the north end of Lake Ladoga against the Finns.

I think somebody already moved factories. We have a rail cap of 196.

As temporary supreme command this turn I used every rail point to ship out all Leningrad armaments and vehicle factories. The Heavy Industry we should get out next turn. The south industry should hold as long as we get forces in front of Dnepp & Z, his tanks are definitely out of fuel and will have limited movement next turn.

Turn 5 is up, by the way.

Turn looks good for us we can still evacuate Leningrad, Zap or Dnepp if that is high commands desire of course.

Looks OK right now. They dove into my tar pit up south of the Luga. I am going to need a little bit of rail cap to move people down to that northwestern corner of the Luga front. I wonder if they are running short of gas up there? Farther south, they are up against Velikie Luki. I figure I could leave two good divisions in there to slow them down and back off to the hills/swamp to the north and east. They're across the Velikaya south of Pskov and I was planning to abandon the city unless somebody tells me different. I can pull back to the minimal line in Finland. Basically, I think we're OK in my sector for now.

Generals of the Soviet Union.


The enemy is knocking at our door. Now more then ever, we need to stop the beast in its path.

5 Panzer Divisions and 2 Motorized Divisions are directly threatening the city of Leningrad. This need to stop. Assault the enemy division with bombers, IL-2s, tanks or infantry, the choice is yours, but do something about it. We need to weaken them. They should not be allowed to rest. If you cannot fight them frontally, scare them into moving into another position with encirclement, this will waste their time and fuel. Force them to attack into direction they wouldnt want to go. They need to feel stressed and incapable of dealing with the situation alone.

the 7th Army, on the Northern Front, defending against the Finnish. Do we really need them there ? The Finnish wont go beyond their original borders, have the 7th Army retreat and bolster the defense of Leningrad. Leave a division or two along the Finnish original border and divide those division into regiments to create a frontline.

Leningrad needs reinforcement, the area around Velikie Luki needs reinforcement.

It looks like 2 SS div. (Das Reich + Grossdeutchland) are getting ready to do a pincer movement on Smolensk with the 19th Pz Div. Make sure to prepare for such an event. I want lots of recon mission in the South, Wiking SS div are close by and may be attempting to breakthrough somewhere. Try to figure out how many reinforcement they will have. The supporting divisions and where they will attempt to break.

Hold Odessa. If possible, organize supply raid (capture railroad hex ) on railroad lines as far as possible, starting from Odessa, going North- West.

Airborne : I want the 4th and 5th Airborne Corps to stay and defend the forest
behind Velikie Luki, pretty much where they are right now.