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End of turn 5 russians 1,070,000 inf down 7,800 tanks about 6,000 planes

germans 120,000 men 610 tanks 500 planes

after reading ARR from others i see my misstakes...[:(]

the north is not so good..i feel, not making the break tru i wanted but am make some progress.

Centre is ok made a good size pocket i hope to take avantage of at Vitebsk.

the south is the place that i am doing well and hope to press on to Zhitomir with the sea of Russians in front of me.

cleaned up the pockets from last turn and made new ones 8 divs this time.

The south he is trading blood for time.

An other turn done.
The two German mobile divisions cut off around narva are now back in supply and some infantry is arriving,  but at least he could not make any progress there this turn.

Around Pskov, he's slowly pushing me but I manage to get some shots at some of his motorised divisions. I'll probaly have some infantry divisions cut off there in the next few turns

In the centre, some divisions were cut off around vitebsk. I managed to put the back in supply. a couple of german mobile units have been cut off in the process. I evacuated vitebsk.

Around smolensk I'm massing troops. He's slowly grinding his way forward. He's now reaching the Dnepr. German infantry is reaching the frontline while most of my reinforvements are understrength divisions

In the south 8 divisions are cut off. I abandoned them to their fate. My forces are withdrawing towards kiev. Most of my frontline infantry has died by now. Now is time to save whatever can be saved, especially the mobile divisions. I want to get those trucks back in the motor pool.

reinforcement divisions are arriving but they are very week. I need them on the front line though, too many holes to plug.

Meanwhile, organisation, leaders and factory evacuation.

I've disbanded a few air HQs and some SAD airbases. I need that manpower in the frontline. I think I can probably get 200 000 or 300 000 men this way.
Most of the airforce is back to the front. I hope they will at least give some cover to my forces and limit the number of interdictions

New groups forming get the modern aicraft, while the experienced ones keep their biplanes Manually upgraging groups would cost me a lot of APs for which I have more pressing uses.

So basically, mig 3 ang lagg 3 are my main training aircraft while my "crack" squadrons fly I 153.

i'm also dispanding the 10 aircraft strong units