Fetterkrolle (Axis) VS Bear1888 (Soviets) Bitter End Scenario

[Fetterkrolle]

I forgot to take screenshots of my opponents defensive positions in the Center and South. This is something that I get better at not forgeting in later turns. Still there is not much to look at in Center, as I was not able to achieve much there anyways. And since both Pz groups in AGC is lending away some of their forces I decided to reinforce them with XIV Pz Corps, including L.A.H and removing 16th Pz division from the corps. I am hopeing this added punching power will be enough to catch up what time I have already lost. Another reason for sending them to AGC is that the soviets railed out almost every unit they could in the South which left me with not to much to grab, so I would not need the extra help from the XIV Corps.

[Fetterkrolle]

In the South things go very well. Brest Litovsk pocket is cleared aswell as the smaller pocket just east of the main Lvov pocket. This will leave the supplylines clear of hostiles in the rear.

I saw two opportunities to encirle more soviet forces. One of them was near the prypiat marshes which encirled a soviet armor corps (3 tanks, 1 motorised) and a soviet paratrooper corp. The other one was on the rumaninan border which netted 5 RD and 1 paratrooper.

[Fetterkrolle]

Pocket further north.

[Fetterkrolle]

Turn 2 Losses are heavy on both sides. I need to keep mine down or else I won't have many men for the winter. One more thing I would like to comment is that it seems my opponent does not care at all about his paratroopers. I guess he wants me to use MPs to kick them back which in some cases I have to but on this turn I encircled a lot of them. Correct me if I am wrong but special/elite units like paratroopers and mountain divisions don't respawn for the soviets. If that is the case I hope my enemy will throw away some mountain divisions aswell[:D]

[Telemecus]

I noticed your Soviet opponent has taken to marauding such as the rail line destroyed in the red circle shown on the map. In most cases you can say it does not matter too much and you can take your own judgment whether to use units and ZOCs to prevent it. But I would say the rail line in the middle coming out of Hungary is quite important to protect from marauding. If you are not using FBDs out of Poland in the south then you need to rely on auto rail repair to make a bypass of repaired rail around Rumania. So you need auto rail repair to get going from that middle line as soon as possible. Not only will a bypass around Rumania allow arrivals in Germany to be railed quicker to the front in the south, without it Hungarians cannot be railed to the front or garrisons at all. Instead Hungarian units will have to walk or drive taking turns more.

It will be interesting to see how this develops in future turns of the AAR.

[Fetterkrolle]

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

I noticed your Soviet opponent has taken to marauding such as the rail line destroyed in the red circle shown on the map. In most cases you can say it does not matter too much and you can take your own judgment whether to use units and ZOCs to prevent it. But I would say the rail line in the middle coming out of Hungary is quite important to protect from marauding. If you are not using FBDs out of Poland in the south then you need to rely on auto rail repair to make a bypass of repaired rail around Rumania. So you need auto rail repair to get going from that middle line as soon as possible. Not only will a bypass around Rumania allow arrivals in Germany to be railed quicker to the front in the south, without it Hungarians cannot be railed to the front or garrisons at all. Instead Hungarian units will have to walk or drive taking turns more.

It will be interesting to see how this develops in future turns of the AAR.

This maraudering will affect the rail repairs in the area, but I decided at first to ignore it. Only time will tell if this had too much affect on the game.

[Fetterkrolle]

This AAR is still active, I have just decided to move to point of view 10 turns back instead of 5 so my opponent will not gain anything from reading the AAR. We are currently on turn 11 so should not be to long until the next update comes for the AAR.

[MattFL]

ORIGINAL: Fetterkrolle



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[Fetterkrolle]

Turn 3 is normaly quite a boring turn as most of your mobile forces will be out of fuel except in the South. Other than that its just a lot of pocket cleanup and moving units eastwards.

AGN is done cleaning up all the pockets in their sector and all of the infantry is marching towards pskov, which in fact was captured this turn by the panzers. This is ofcourse a great result but at the same time I fear my opponent will just run to the Luga straight away which will not leave me any easy ways to pocket any units in the North. This fear only grows greater as I have done 3HQBUs in the North with all my panzers. I was able to do this as I have been saving a lot of APs in the early turns.

[Fetterkrolle]

This time the Center pocket held and the cleanup crew is ready to start mopping up. I want to flip as many hexes as possible to the landbridge so my infantry can get there as quickly as possible.

[Fetterkrolle]

Cleanup goes quick and there is not much left in the pocket. A few airborne brigades are sent rushing forward to try to suck up MPs, but I will gladly encircle them and eat them up next turn. If I am correct these units will never respawn and thus for each of them I kill I will limit his abilities to do any paradrops later in the war. Panzers also reach the landbridge and some infantry are right behind. My opponent is quite heavily defending the Dnepr but I only plan to send screening forces to this location and further north of the landbridge there is almost no resistance so I send part of my panzer forces this way to flip hexes here aswell. If it continues to stay undefended the landbrigde defense will fall with a breeze.

[Fetterkrolle]

All pockets held in AGS. For me it is very important to clear the pockets closest to the front immediately so that I dont have to keep units garrisoning them over the next turn. In many cases it also will help supply flow better and reduces a chance of any soviet units escaping or opening the pockets. Marked in red are offensive plans. I see an easy oppertunity to encirle a couple rifle divisions on the outskirts of Kiev and go for it. The flipped hexes will also help infantry get to the Dnepr quicker. I used a lot of recon on Odessa and was not able to find any units there, so I go for a gamble with a panzer corps sending them south. Also one thing to note is he is doing the same here as in the center where he is sacirfizing airborne brigades.

[Fetterkrolle]

My mobile forces are at the gates of Kiev and they create a loose pocket

[Fetterkrolle]

My gambit paid of as Odessa was only garrisoned by the Odessa fortress. Another few divisions are cut off and will soon join their comrades. The most important part of this capture is that I can avoid a more lengthy siege of the city and thus I will hopefully have more time to deal with sevastopol which will be one of my main goals in the South.

[Fetterkrolle]

Losses at the end of turn 3.

[Fetterkrolle]

And OOB

[chegevara]

Very well with Odessa, I suppose industry had not a chanse to evacuate before turn 3, so it's lost.

[Fetterkrolle]

I had hoped to keep this AAR going for a long time, but unfortunatly that would not be the case.

My opponent surrendered to me on turn 13. This was about 2 weeks ago, he sent me a PM saying it he wanted to surrender, I tried to get in contact with him to convince him to keep the game going. But I never got any respons, and 1 week later he resigned. (no way back as it was a server game) It seems my never ending quest to play this game past turn 13 will keep going for a while.

Anyways if anyone would like to see any screenshots from the game, just let me know and I will provide them in this thread.

[EwaldvonKleist]

It seems my never ending quest to play this game past turn 13 will keep going for a while.

Consider becoming a worse player

[mrblonde1]

Last turn screenshots could be interesting, was it so bad for soviets?