GPW v5 6 player - German AGN View

[Barthheart]

August 9, 1941 continued...

A little south the 16th Armymoved through Nevel and skermished in the outskirts of Veliki Luki. Again most of the resistance is from quickly conscripted old men. We need to take the highway through Veliki Luki as it's the only easy path through a very marshy expanse.

[Barthheart]

August 9, 1941 continued...

A look at our losses for this week show that my troops are still preforming excellantly! At this pace we will make the outskirts of Lennigrad by the end of August, a whole week early! I'm sure the Fins and even the "corporal" will approve.

[Barthheart]

Personal diary of FM Leeb:

August 16, 1941

The 18th Amry gained a foothold across the first of the Narva bridges this week. It was defended only by poorly armed conscripts.

The 4th Panzer continues to race forward, capturing Luga and it's airfield and coming to the outskirts of Staraya Russia after totally destroying some Russian heavy armour units. This new T-34 and something called a KV-1 are very difficult to kill. The panzer troops are having to invent new tactics to counteract their superior armour. Mostly they try to draw them into traps and blast them fromt he sides and rear.

Our Finish friends have withdrawn to the Mannerhiem Line of forts under extreme pressure form the Soviets.

[Barthheart]

August 16, 1941 continued...

16th Army is slogging it's way through the swamps around Veliki Luki, capturing the city, and presses on towards Kholm. Some staggler pockets were also eliminated.

Rear guard units wipe out another group of partisans. More "examples" are found and made....

[Barthheart]

August 16, 1941 continued...

Losses this week are still acceptable.

[Barthheart]

Personal diary of FM Leeb:


August 23, 1941

18th Army and a detactment of 4th Panzer have linked up only about 20 km south west of Lennigrad. Next week they'll be in the suburbs! More conscripts were destroyed in Narva as the 18th rolled through.

The rest of 4th Panzer destroyed two more formations of T-34's and captured Staraya Russia. THey are now threatening Novgorod from the south and Bologoe to the east. On the outskirts of Staraya, Hoeppner reports sighting HQ elements of the Soviet NW Front command! He is now racing to cut off the head of the Soviet forces in the north!

The Finnish army continues to reinforce the Mannerhiem Line.

[Barthheart]

August 23, 1941 continued...

Bucsh's 16th Army is now out of the swamp and making good headway again. He is attempting to link with Hoeppner west of Demyansk.

[Barthheart]

August 23, 1941 continued...

Losses are still reasonable this week.... still waiting fo rthe Russia Bear to show it's claws....

Looks like the early days of large encirclements are over.

[bwheatley]

Great AAR keep up the tale! Is another playing playing the south and central Army groups?

[Barthheart]

ORIGINAL: bwheatley

Great AAR keep up the tale! Is another playing playing the south and central Army groups?

Glad you like it, it's fun to write.

There are 6 players in this game, 3 German 3 Russian. THere was another thread with the south front view point.

[Barthheart]

Personal dairy of FM Leeb:

August 30, 1941

Two months... two months we've been at this! And still there's more ground to cover. Who would have thought that one country could be so big and yet so backward and poorly connected with proper transportation lines. Even the railroads are the wrong gauge and we have to change them all just to keep our supplies flowing.

We have also seen the appearance of new trained and better armed Soviet troops. They are still being use piecemeal so as yet are no real threat. Once they get organized however....

We are, however, still make good progress.

18th Army has taken Sheplevo and advanced on Lennigrad. Together with a detactment from 4th Panzer they attacked the suburbs three times but failed to dislodge the defenders. City fighting is very different from the wide open plains we've driven through so far.

The rest of 4th Panzer has captured Novgorod. Lead elements report the capture of Lt-Gen. Sobennikov commander of the Russian North West Fronts! This is a great feat as it should demoralize most of the troops we are facing.

The Fins make a probing attack to push some Russians away from their position and kepp them busy while we approach from the south.

[Barthheart]

August 30, 1941 continued...

16th Army pushes through Khlom and links with 4th Panzer to the north. For the first time in 2 months all our troops are connected again. This did not come without a cost though. During the fighting around Kholm, the 33rd Inf division was badly mauled by a Russian counter-attack. The reminants have been folded into 100th Inf division.

[Barthheart]

August 30, 1941 continued...

Losses to date and this past week.

[bwheatley]

rifle II the fightings going to be harder from here on out!

[Barthheart]

Personal diary of FM Leeb:

September 6, 1941

Short report this week as we are moving rapidly to keep up with the retreating Russians.

In the north the Finnish tropps hold the line as Soviets retreat to the defence of Lennigrad.

18th Army desided to let explosives speak for them this week, instead of wasting anpower on frontal assaults of Lennigrad suburbs. Heavy bombardment of urban area by land, sea and air.

4th Panzer continues to be my maneuver arm. The northern detactment is trying to cut off Lenningrad from their outside supplies. Meanwhile the main body of 4th Panzer has captured yet another HQ. THis time is was 2nd Reserve Army. The local Russian units are again without leadership.

16th Army is advancing on Bologoe with 4th Panzer.

Losses were light this week, report still pending because of delay in getting front reports due to forward elements distance from HQ's.

[bwheatley]

Can you cut off murmansk in this scenario?

[Barthheart]

Yes you can.

[bwheatley]

How does murmansk work? Just constant supply every turn for the player or does he have to play a card to get the supplies?

[Barthheart]

ORIGINAL: bwheatley

How does murmansk work? Just constant supply every turn for the player or does he have to play a card to get the supplies?

It is represented by a production center on map.

[Barthheart]

Personal diary of FM Leeb:

September 13th, 1941

Unluky week for the Russians defenders.

Kuchler reports that his 18th Army has stormed the outskirts of Lennigrad. There they found that much of the city itself has been torn apart by the Russians to make fortifications. Taking the rest of the city might prove very difficult. He also reports an attack on the Soviet 1st Reserve Army HQ and the destruction of a partisan group near Sheplevo.

Lennigrad is now cutoff from regular supply from the outside.

4th Panzer's Gen. Hoeppner reports light fighting and the resumption of open tank country for his faster advance.

Busch and the 16th Army have taken Bologoe from it's conscript defenders and report no other Russian troops in the path of his advance.

Our Finnish friends to the north have once again gone on the attack and have take a part of the Mannerhiem Line from it's defenders.