ORIGINAL: Flaviusx
I'm starting to think that the only way to defend Leningrad is to fight like crazy by Pskov from turn 1 on. And heavily reinforce it with your strategic reserves on the first two turns. And even then this will depend on AGN not being itself heavily reinforced. Rather than backing up to the Luga and digging in, might be better to try to hold the Axis well short of that and as close to Pskov as possible.
The Luga line never holds. The western end of it is indefensible, imo. I've stopped manning it. It's just too easy to cut off, the way that happened to you. Once you lose your chokepoints at Narva and Pskov, the front opens up too much. The next line is really Leningrad-Novgorod, including whatever portion of the Luga falls in that area, but not anything past it.
Yea, i think your right. Those 13 refitted divisons now trapped just seems like a total waste. In hinesight I would have tried to defend this line. Given that its sufficiently manned and dug in, atleast in the light wood hexes, i think it might have hold him off for a coupple of turns.
