D21 game started 25Apr2021

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I have no idea why I thought it would be a good idea to post another picture of the Riga area. But here it is.

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I'm sneaking up on the city of Minsk. I should have it in hand by the end of T6 I'm guessing.

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I don't know why I'm posting another picture of Minsk so soon after the one above but here it is.

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Here's what's going on in the south.

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Here's what's going on near Leningrad right now. This is just before the first combat phase.

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Here's what's going on near Minsk. I'm going to try to surround all the defenders before I move on to the east.

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Here's what it looks like around Riga right now. I'm thinking of using Riga to rest the tired planes since the supply level is
so high. I just need to move some HQ units up there to encourage the tired planes.

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I blew a hole in the Soviet Stalin line down south. I'm going to use that hole to pour units through to see if I can't get
behind the Soviet units defending to the immediate north of the hole and destroy them before they can back up to Kiev and maybe
retreat to the east side of the river.

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Here's the front lines in T6. I'm making good progress almost everywhere.

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I've gotten across the river and I'm making good progress in this AO. I'm trying to stick to the roads and rails for speed and
the advance is advancing. Supply levels are still good. All my aircraft are in the green except for about 5 bombers. It's
4May2021 in real time and 9Jul41 in gametime.

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I'm sneaking ever closer to Kiev and this time I don't want to do a lot of expensive attacking but rather I'm planning on
letting the long range arty whittle down the defenders a lot before assaulting seriously.

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I've captured Pskov but the Soviets are blocking my movement to the NE toward Leningrad. I've got some follow up forces
approaching this AO and they will help me push the defenders out of the way. I've got about 18 bombers that are yellow but
there's a bunch more that are green. The supply levels are down into the low 20's at the point of the spear but that's
adequate to continue the advance.

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It's early in T7 and I'm only just now arriving at Orsha. Which may mean that I'm behind schedule. I'll have to look that up
to see how they did in RL.

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Here's what Kiev is looking like now. I'm trying to build the rail all the way to Kiev so I can use my RR arty to bombard the
Soviet stacks. That ought to soften them up a little bit. I need to do that so as to keep my losses down.

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I'm chasing the Soviet defenders across the wide open area to the SW of Kiev. I'm hoping to surround them before I destroy
them so that their equipment doesn't go back to the pools. Every little bit helps.

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This is what the northern front lines look now just before the first combat phase. The supply levels are still outstanding.
All my aircraft are green except for three bombers. All the Finns have reached the stop line just north of Leningrad so they
are waiting on me to capture Leningrad before they can be released for movement further south.

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I've gotten across the river and Axis units are advancing toward Leningrad via several avenues.

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I've gotten several river crossings intact so I'm optimistic that I can get a good foothold on the east side of the river and
begin pushing the Soviets to the east. Supply is in the low teens so I may have to wait for a turn or two for the levels to
get higher before I start assaulting seriously.

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I've moved a lot of units and the face of the battlefield has changed near Kiev.

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Here's what my advance toward Leningrad looks like right now. I'm optimistic that I can make some progress despite the Soviet
opposition.