Workshop for the new guys - Barbarossa 41

[larryfulkerson]

I've been moving units and the bulge has gotten bigger. I'll probably start running into more Soviet units in my path
though and the bulge will just be an extention of the front lines. Just a big bulge. Maybe not. Maybe I can roll up
the Soviet lines in both directions.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the list of attacks that are scheduled to take place just as soon as I pull the trigger. I think I might need
to look at that attack that has an AR of just 85. That's not good.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all the movement in T1:

[larryfulkerson]

I've been moving units and the front lines are remarkably different from what they were last turn. The Axis units
are surrounding the Soviets and destroying them slowly one stack at a time and some of the units that have already
killed their target are moving to the east for more targets.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the moves of turn two:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Riga area now. I gotten across the river already though, so the footrace has begun for Pskov.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Minsk-Smolensk area right now.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines in the south right now. Most of the progress being made is in the south. The Soviets are
being pushed back and surrounded and destroyed.

[larryfulkerson]

It's only T3 and I'm already at the Dnper river. If I can hold those crossings for a couple of turns I think I might
have some relief for them in the way of follow on forces.

[larryfulkerson]

The tidal wave is sweeping SE into a bigger bulge yet. I'm getting closer to Kiev all the time.

[larryfulkerson]

I defeated the Soviet light screen and plunged deep into Soviet territory and I think maybe I captured the one hex that
allows supply through to the Soviets in the upper left. Now that the are out of supply it should be easier to take
them down. Plus, there's lots of Soviet units off-map to the south that need to be dealt with.

[larryfulkerson]

I've been moving units and this is the Kiev area right now. I've spread out and I'm isolating and surrounding the group
on the west side and I'll have them mopped up shortly.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines in T5. I'm going gangbustsers down south. The north is clogged in it's configuration.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the war up north right now. The fighting spilled over into the Pskov area and we're starting to head up to
Estonia and the bottleneck to see if we can kill some Soviet units up north.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Minsk-Smolensk area right now. It's congested and the Axis forces are pressing east and the Soviets are
trying to maintain their front line while under terrific assault and sometimes they hold and sometimes they crumble.

[larryfulkerson]

This is a shot of what's happening north of Kiev down to Odessa. Churn and turmoil.

[larryfulkerson]

I've been moving units and the face of the war has changed and this is the Kiev area right now. I've got my recon units
out racing across the countryside looking for the Soviet MLR. I'm moving the fighters up to the front as the front
moves. The Rumanians are racing to fill up the vacuum where the Soviets used to be because they are backing up and
trying to form a front line in various places.

[Fred98]

Larry,

Most AARS would be very happy to tell us that they had a hidden armour unit to attack an unexpecting enemy infantry unit and had great success! Whoo !

You don't need to tell us any of that.

Rather, you need to educate us on how you use the game mechanics to help you make decisions. Otherwise you will win a PBEM match against us beginners by 10 wickets!

.

[larryfulkerson]

you need to educate us on how you use the game mechanics to help you make decisions.

Wow. Somebody is reading this thing. Thanks for posting....you can't imagine how encouraging it is.
So you want to know how I use the tools of the game to make decisions. That's a great concept. I'll
see what I can do. Thanks for the idea. I was running out of ideas.

EDIT: I just had a thought. There maybe those of you who would like to have the scenario I'm playing
to just move the units around and maybe follow along or do a game of your own. I'm attaching the
scenario to this post so you can download it and move it to your WWII-East Front scenario folder. It's
the latest version of this mod there is and I'm finding that the arty secondary icon for the engineers
isn't making all that much difference to my particular game play. I don't usually have my engineers on
the front lines for anything except to repair a bridge or span a river.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines in T7 before I have moved anybody. I need to see this at the beginning of the turn to get a rough
idea where I need to move groups of formations to fill up voids and sparce places. Those things turn up when you can
least easily fix it. And the rails aren't all that close to the front lines yet so I can't count on that to help me
move formations around. The supply levels are dropping as I'm running away from the railheads faster than they can keep
up. And I'm concentrating on just a few raillines. I may have to halt the advance long enough for the rails to catch up.