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BTW, you have to take some fairly radical measures to deal with your armaments pool. Even so, you'll still crater, but I managed to avoid zeroing out until around November in my game with James.

What do I mean by radical measures? Well, set all arty to 50% TOE. Disband stuff like crazy. Avoid putting mech divisions on refit (those things are armament hogs and will flip over to brigades anyways, or rifle divisions.) I even went so far as to dial down the TOE settings for rifle units to 90% across the board.

I already did all that stuff apart from disbandment. I hit zero armaments on T16.

The last time I played Soviet was under 1.04, much tougher now under 1.05. My thoughts at this stage are its a little too tough in 41. But we shall see. I am confident of final victory in this game, but it won't be as easy as last time.

Trying to upload a Moscow close up but can't manage it just yet, weird.

Moscow

With the fix for HQ, AB & SU refit in place, i.e. if you start with 1.05.39 or later, all SU will more or less fill out in the logistics phase in turn 1. Don't know what to do, really.

Disbanding the Arm not quite but almost ASAP? The equipment in the Mot will get recycled, so I prefer to keep them at 50% TOE and on refit so that they get training until they upgrade.

Turn 24

Moscow holds! Well the Kremlin at least. Lost the two western hexes of Moscow but I still hold the main hex along with the capital. Hopefully I can regain the lost hexes come the blizzard.

Unfortunately I lost Rostov just this turn. But again I should be able to regain it with the blizzard.

Lots of re-organising this turn in preparation for the blizzard counter attack.

Will update again at the end of December.

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Bro is it me or are you getting all you can handle?

A 3 month old baby makes me v time poor. I read lots here still but my contributions are somewhat limited. One game of WITE and this periodic AAR is all I can manage right now plus a little 'Combat Mission Battle for Normandy'

Grats on the little one Michael. Suprised you have time even for one game. That sleep deprivation is a killer[X(]

Thanks David. His WITE training program will begin soon...[:D]

End of T28

Things have been a bit slow with my opponent having some RL issues since the new year but hopefully back on track now.

Blizzard progress is good overall. Not much happening between the North edge and Tula. But the Axis is crumbling between Tula and Kharkov. So far 4 German Divs captured with more on the way. Serious cracks appearing in the Axis line from Kharkov to Rostov now as well. Rostov and Tula should be regained but not so sure about the hexes lost in Moscow. The Germans are quite strong in the Moscow area with good terrain, forts and Panzer reserves.

December saw 310000+ Axis casualties, including 46,000 Germans captured.

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