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T10, Odessa
Here's what it looks like in the Odessa area. I'm bombarding the Odessa defenders and running probing attacks but it's not getting a lot of Soviet losses so it's going to take a while to take down the city. I need to move some more RR arty tubes down here to expedite the process a little. I'm approaching the entrance to the Crimea and will soon force my way through the bottleneck.

T11, Front Lines
Here's what it looks like right now. The Finns have fought their way to the stop line just north of Leningrad. It cost them 1541 Rifle Squads to get there, they have 5K still assigned and 78 on hand and they are making 27 of them each turn. The Finns are doing okie dokie. The Germans forced their way through the Narva bottleneck and are approaching Leningrad from the west. Meanwhile a rather large gap has developed in my lines and I need to fill that with some troops pretty soon. I don't know where the troops are going to come from. I may have to start breaking units down to get enough warm bodies to stand a front line. Well, a light screen if the truth be known. Broken down units don't have a lot of stamina. All the aircraft are green except for two bombers and two fighters who are yellow/resting.

Battle of Smolensk
There's a terrific battle going on over the city of Smolensk. I'm going to try to surround the city first and THEN take it down if possible. Further south a bit I'm approaching Bryansk and the river and rail junctions there. Plus there's two airfields there that I need going forward.

Battle of Kiev
I've gotten across the river in the area north of Kiev near Chernigov and I'm advancing slowly to the SE to get into a position where I can surround the Soviet units on the east side of the river south of Kiev and destroy them. This will not be a short-term project. I'm fighting over the river crossings south of Kiev but so far no joy. The Rumanians, Hungarians, Italians, and the Slovs are helping me clear out the open area on the west side of the Dneper river.

Battle for The Crimea
I've arrived at Kherson too early in that I don't have enough troops to follow up any breakthroughs at the bottlenecks. I'm planning on stripping off some divisions clearing the open area and aim them south at the Crimea. Especially the 11th Army that's operating in the area. Odessa is a small problem right now. I've been bombarding with RR arty ( only three units ) and I need to rail some more RR arty down here to speed the take down a bit. I need to take down Sevastopol by 04Dec41 to free up the Bulgarians but it's only 27July41 right now so I think there may be enough time to do that still.

T12, Kiev
I've been assaulting the defenders at Kiev and have made some progress and it looks like I'll soon own Kiev. Losses have been medium to heavy in my attacks so I'm glad that a lot of the process is already done. I've gotten across the river north of Kiev and will soon have some German troops on the west side of Kiev. Elmer is in the habit of posting troops along the riverbank just to prevent me from using engineers to leap across the river between river crossings and I'd like to trap those Soviet units and kill them before they escape to the east, deeper into Russia. About a third of the aircraft are yellow because this is round 5 of turn 12 and I've been using the aircraft to support my attacks. The AS levels are 43 Axis and 21 Soviet and the air losses meter says 37 Axis losses and 187 Soviet losses. So the air war is heating up slowly. Supply isn't much of a problem anywhere on the map so far. I'm roughly on schedule I think.

Bryansk
I've arrived in the vicinity of Bryansk and I'm moving units so as to try to surround it before I take it down. Depending on the given terrain it's sometimes not easy to do that. Soviet resistance varies between light and medium in this AO so far. The number of troops I have on hand near here is really low and I need to ship more troops this way to have more boots on the ground. There's more gaps in my lines than I'm comfortable with in this area and I feel like it's going to bite me in the A$$ if I don't do something about it.

T13, Kiev
A lot of troops are headed this way to try to make a gigantic bulge in the Soviet front lines and push them to the east as fast as possible to try to gain a lot of ground before the mud season arrives. Clearance of the wide open area continues and I'm getting closer to D-town and Z-town. I forced my way across one river crossing just south of Kiev but it's only a start and needs to be developed a lot more before a comfortable toe-hold can exist. I find that I'm in a slight hurry to get to turn 14 and I don't think I'm superstitious or anything like that. I'll just feel a lot more comfortable when I get to T14.

T13, Leningrad
Progress is slow but it's progressing to the east. The Soviet units are split between the attack from the west and at the stop line above Leningrad and are therefore sparce on their lines. I've got plans to try to trap all the Leningrad area defenders and destroy them before they can escape to the east, deeper into Russia. I've got plans to strip off the Panzer divisions up here and send them south into the better terrain, the more open terrain. I may have to replace them if they are on the front line and I have no idea where the replacement division will come from. I would guess that at least 85% of the Infantry Divisions are employed at the front and the rest of them are moving that way. I've got lots of gaps in my front line and that's unsettling. As soon as they get caught up in converting hexes in my backfield, I'm going to use the small AT, MP, etc. units to construct a light screen at the very least. And I've got to do something about establishing some local reserves every 10 hexes or so along the front lines. I'd like to be able to use the Panzer divisions as the strategic reserve. This is round 7 of T13 and about half of the bombers are yellow/resting. I've lost 11.8K German Heavy Rifle Squads so far, I have 32.3K still assigned and 1.6K on hand so losses are light and the force is still in a go for for the gold state.

Great Reports. I am trying right now your scenario D21 as German against Russian AI.
One question: how do you organize yourself to be sure that you have moved all your units each turn? AFAIK there is no game indicator/key that pops-up to show the remaining unmoved units...

One question: how do you organize yourself to be sure that you have moved all your units each turn?

I use the OOB to determine who has yet to use up all the MP's it has. When you get a list of units at the far right side is the column of MP's remaining and I go down the column looking for all the non-zero MP units and move them next.

My usual routine is to move all the units in OOB order starting with OKH. Right now I have OKH parked at Minsk next to the airfields to encourage the resting planes. I started out using Warsaw as the aircraft depot because of all the airfields clustered there but that seems too far away from the action now so I'm moving the depot to Minsk.

thanks a lot for your reply. I understand.
Btw, I replied to Curtis related a new feature, and I cited your suggestion.
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T14, Bryansk
Here's what it looks like in the Bryansk area right now. I'm on the verge of capturing the city proper and I'm trying to surround the Soviet defenders and kill them. I have my recon units way out in front to convert the roads and rails and to find the enemy units that aren't visible yet. There's lots of gaps in the front lines in this area but I'm okay with that because the Soviet units are so sparse. I'm approaching an area that has tank terrain in it. Clear terrain without any impediments to the full movement of AFV's so that lots of progress can theoritically be made by tanks and other fast movers. I'm going to see if I can't move at least one Panzer division down here to take advantage of the terrain. I've got 33.2K German Heavy Rifle Squads assigned and a little less than 400 on hand. Losses are 12.3K and so I'm calling that light losses. There are 954 Me-109's assigned, 203 on-hand, and I've lost 73 of them and so I'm calling that light losses as well. I'm going to start making some FW-190A/D's ( making 23 per turn )in T141. That seems like an awfully long way away. All the aircraft are in the green except for one Finn fighter unit that's yellow/resting.

T14, D-town
I've captured a couple of river crossings just south of Kiev and I'm expanding the bridgehead and expanding the footprint on the east side of the river. These intrusions may attract some more Soviet defenders and that's a good thing in that it may mean that more Soviet units can be trapped against the riverbank and destroyed. I've arrived at D-town and vigorous negotiations are underway to determine who owns it. Also, there's been some fierce fighting over the crossings leading into the Crimea. Elmer has been railing a lot of units this way so I expect a lot more resistance in the near future. It's now August 6, 1941 and we're into the fall season of the year. That means that some cold fronts are probably on their way moving from north to south from the Arctic circle. Some of the rivers I'm defending behind may freeze over during the coldest part of winter and become traversable so I'll have to adjust for that.

T14, Kherson
This is what the Crimea looks like right now. I'm fighting over the bottlenecks to get into the Sevastopol area. I'm considering a naval invasion to go around the blockages. I'm hesitating because the Soviets still have two naval units remaining in the Black Sea Fleet, one of them a BB. I need to get my Stukas down here to get rid of them. So far so good.

T14, Kiev
I finally managed to get some troops on the east side of Kiev, sortof. The idea is to trap all those Soviet units against the riverbank and kill them. Axis units further to the east are sweeping south to clear the terrain of enemy units, convert the roads and rails to the German side, and as a side effect, convert the hexes to friendly. There's a lot going on in this AO with a lot of moving units, lots of small skirmishing battles and the Soviet units are sufficiently sparse that lots of progress is being made. The supply level is in the high teens at the tip of the spear so that's high enough to keep going. I need to monitor the supply level because in previous games the supply level was a major problem. I'm moving my aircraft to the east as far as possible as the airfields are uncovered.

T15, Smolensk
The front lines have moved east from Smolensk and soon the fighting will be over the city of Vyazma. The Soviets have constructed a fairly good front line in some places, in some other places there's only a light screen and even some small gaps exist. In the south of the image, south of Bryansk, German forces are finding Soviet units sparse enough to make some rapid progress. The supply lines are repaired to just behind the front. All the aircraft are green except two German bombers and one Finnish fighter. You can see from the air losses meter that the fighting is still one-sided for the most part. But the Soviet AS level is climbing slowly. I've got 31.8K German Heavy Rifle Squads assigned and 861 on hand. I feel like I need to slow down the operational tempo to allow the number of HRS's to fill in a bit. I still haven't decided what a good moritorium level would be. About 30K I suppose. I figure I will need that many to survive the Soviet Winter Offensive come T49.

T16, Leningrad
Here's what the Leningrad area looks like right now. The Finns have been at the stop line about a month ( game time ) now and they have been trading arty shots back and forth in all that time. I'm on the brink of a breakthrough and will soon be adjacent to the city. The left hook isn't working out all that well. I'm trying to surround the Soviets with too few units. I need to shift some of those guys on the northwest side to the southeast side and maybe rail some more troops in from somewhere else although I have no idea where those troops will come from. I'm still trying to strip off the Panzer divisions to use them as a reserve. It seems that most of them are fully employed on the front lines. So I effectively have no reserve to speak of.

T16, Stalino
I have pushed through D-town and Z-town and I'm heading east and southeast from there. The supply levels are adequate for operations so the advance continues. Rapid progress is being made because the Soviets are so sparse. I expect resistance to increase as I move east. The Romanians are still setting siege of Odessa and gauging from the progress being made there, they will be at it for at least another month. I think maybe more RR arty is needed to expedite the process. It's for sure going to be needed when I try to take down Sevastopol. Right now all the RR arty is spread out between Leningrad and Kiev and Odessa so maybe I need to decide on who gets priority and use them all there instead. All the aircraft are green except for one bomber and three fighter units. The AS levels are 45 Axis and 25 Soviet so the air war is slowly heating up. There's been no adverse weather so far so that's a plus. I'm optimistic.

T17, Kiev
I've pushed through Kiev and I'm taking down all the Soviet units close to the riverbank before they can get away to the east. The supply levels are in the low 20's and the weather is still good to go. Rapid progress is being made in moving east and south. The Soviets are too sparse to hold me up for long. I've captured several river crossings and that's helping out quite a bit. The railhead is just east of Kiev at the bridge across the river.

T17, Crimea
I've pushed through the bottlenecks by using three-dot attacks and aircraft support and lots of arty. I don't have any water-borne movement cap. so invasions are off the table. The rails are repaired all the way to the tip of the spear so supply is excellent for a change. I moved all the Stukas down here and used them to sink the two Soviet naval units that were lurking here. I'm going to use the 11th Army units to take down Sevastopol and I'll send some Romanians to the Kertch Straits to just hold the Soviets in place until I can get some serious RR arty down here. I have no idea how long it will take to capture Sevastopol but I'm guessing about a month game time.

T17, Belgorod
Here's what it looks like down south right now. Lots of good progress has been made and the forecast looks like more of the same. Supply levels are in the low 20's which is just fine for operations and you can see from the air losses meter how hot the air war has been so far this turn. There's a river that curves SE from Kharkov and turns into a major river that I need to get across somewhere close to here. I'll bring up some engineers to help me leap the river. I've got 29.9K German Heavy Rifle Squads assigned and 813 on hand. I'm becoming uncomfortable with how few HRS's there are assigned and I think it may be time to concentrate on those spots where the best progress is being made and just hold what I have on the rest of the line. Fewer attacks is what I'm aiming for. I'd like to see at least 30K assigned HRS's because of the Soviet Winter Offensive in T49 or so. My shock goes down, the Soviet shock goes up and for about 10 turns I have to try to hold the line where it is with what I have left in the way of forces. The weather then will be terrible and I can't count on much in the way of CS then either. So I need a lot of stout LCU's. ( Land Combat Units ).

T17, Bologoye
Here's what it looks like out in the middle of nowhere in particular. I'm still pushing east as hard as I can but progress is slow and painful. I'm thinking of gaining some good terrain and just holding here for a bit to let the troops rest, to let the number of HRS's assigned to grow a bit, and maybe shift some of the troops to better strategic spots. I'm still trying to do the left hook to isolate Leningrad from the rest of Russia and so far it's been no joy.