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ORIGINAL: traemyn
Granted I've only played one GC as the Soviets, but the excess troops in the blue seem like they could get easily cutoff by a strong thrust directly towards Leningrad. The interesting thing though is that KLilly has a ton of infantry on that side as well so maybe he was going to try a 'left hook'? [:D]

I think you're correct however Stalin's orders are to make him pay for every hex he gains so I'm in the progress of falling back slowly in this area to keep ZOC's in front of him where ever he tries to go to slow him down. I may have to pull the leftmost group back to the east of Tallinin in some real soon future turn.

Larry how do you post the cool animations?

Here's about the best I can do in the Smolensk area

ORIGINAL: 76mm
Larry how do you post the cool animations?

It's increadibly easy and I think it looks pretty good in an AAR. I use MSPaint to "position" the screenshots so they "overlap" correctly saving the images as files and then I use GIFanimator to string together the two screenshots into a GIF file and then just upload the GIF file to the forum.

You can find the GIFAnimator here:

GIFAnimator

EDIT: Maybe I should post a couple of pictures to show how to use the GIFAnimator. Or at least how I use it. Look for a new thread in the main section of the forum about this.

Or click on this for GIFAnimator instructions

Here's what it looks like in the Gomel area:

I thought I might just as well move the Heavy Industry out of Moscow before it gets stomped on. That's 90K of my 104K rail cap. but I've already railed a bunch, well a hand-full, of troops forward. So I've still got 14k of rail left. That's about two more units to move I guess.

I did some severe daylight airfield attacks on several of the Axis airfields and got some good hits on the Hs-126B planes he had parked there. Took some losses though.

Remember that TV show "Hee Haw" where they had a segment called "Salute"? "Salute" was the part of the show where they would sort of "showcase" a small town in the middle of nowhere Georgia, or Alabama, or somewhere, and sort of, tell what the population was and something about the people there or something like that. And then everybody on the cast would wave friendly and shout "Salute" as if to give a shout out to the people of that town from everybody on the show. It was kinda quaint and probably made the day of whoever it was that was the target of the show that day. A weekly show as I remember. Ran for a number of years. I caught a couple of the shows for a while and then it dissappeared from the air waves.

Here's a small town somewhere in east Russia, I don't even remember the name, starts with a Z IIRC, and it's just received 4 PE-3 industry points from Moscow. Salute 'yall.

Kevin is still pushing hard near Kiev:

Here's the rest of the south. Sorry not an animation this time.

Here's the front line in T9 before any Soviet moves

Here's the OOB, losses and production

Here's a close-up of the Bryansk area where it looks like Kevin has a breakthrough on going

I railed out of Bryansk all the industries there to the far east for safety.  Kevin is within striking range and I couldn't take a chance he would get there before I could save the industry.

Here's what I did with the Northwest Front: I pulled back to more defense-able positions. Kevin has at least a pair of tanks a little further
to the east and he's outflanking all my dudes so rather than get them cut off I thought I'd pull 'em back.

I also pulled some stuff back in the V.L. area because of Panzers further south advancing in this direction.

I also pulled back in the Smolensk area. I'm attempting to form a proper front line somewhere and I'm getting closer to what will work all the time.

Here's a better shot of the ongoing disaster at Bryansk

Kevin is still hammering away in the Kiev area. I did some pulling back just in case he gets frisky.

I did a tiny bit of pulling back in the south too.