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The NKVD has fabricated false and malicious documents claiming to have defeated a German Panzer regiment or two in battle.





The German soldier, however, disregards these lies and slander, and marches forward towards the final victory.

Start of Turn 2

As you can clearly see, all pockets held, and the entire Red Army is, as we speak, being destroyed in the border regions. Millions of enemy troops have already surrendered. We just have some minor mopping-up operations left, and we are on pace to arrive in Leningrad, Moscow, and Rostov within another few weeks.



Close up of the south:



Nowhere is our victory greater than in the south. Although NKVD propagandists have claimed some successes for the Red Army there, these are lies and fabrications, and do not affect the determination of the German soldier.

Soviet propagandists even went so far as to fabricate and disseminate false battle reports, claiming some victories against Panzer regiments. They also claimed that Fedlmarschall Bread, commander of Army Group South, put his units next to the Romanian border in regiments rather than one division, and that even if he did, he not attach support units to the crucial two Panzer regiments that were holding the rail closed that could have helped them to hold, such as for example the RFSS brigade. But these are all lies.

Battle against regiment #1 on the Romanian border:



Battle against regiment #2 on the Romanian border:



2 Battles against regiment near Rovno:






Stepping out of character for a moment -

In seriousness, apparently in the new patch it seems easier to counterattack regiments very early on. Regiments were vulnerable before, yes, but I don't think they normally would have lost like this at least on turn 1. Maybe this is another aspect of weak units not being as good in the new patch.

You would typically start to see regiments being successfully counterattacked at least a bit later on, say turn 3 or so. I don't think I ever saw 3 successful Soviet counterattacks on 3 Panzer regiments in turn 1 before in previous patch AARs. Although one of them took two attacks (the first one being a hasty, presumably by a unit that lacked the MP to do a deliberate attack), all 3 Panzer regiments that were attacked were defeated, a very good success ratio for the Soviets so early on.

Soviets bombed our airfields at night, destroying quite a few fighters. For example:



There appears to be no defense against this and no way to stop it. Night fighters cannot be transferred from other theater boxes to do anything against this, despite theater boxes being allegedly unlocked in the game rules.

Recon flights have shown positions of a handful of Soviet stragglers and dead-enders in units which are led by a handful of fanatical commissars who even now have refused to surrender. But it is clear that there are not many of these units, and the soldiers lack the fanaticism of their leaders, so they will disintigrate upon first contact with our troops. So they will now be eliminated by our Panzers, which will then march into undefended Soviet cities in their rear areas.

Recon:

ORIGINAL: Beethoven1

Soviets bombed our airfields at night, destroying quite a few fighters. For example:



There appears to be no defense against this and no way to stop it. Night fighters cannot be transferred from other theater boxes to do anything against this, despite theater boxes being allegedly unlocked in the game rules.

How many total Fighters were lost to Night Bombing by the Soviets?

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

How many total Fighters were lost to Night Bombing by the Soviets?

A total of 13 bombing missions destroyed 17 of our Bf-109s.

Soviets lost 178 bombers. In raw numbers our losses do not necessarily sound that high, but one part of the reason why it was not higher is some of the airfields that were being bombed had only the Stab fighter AOGs that only have like 3 planes in them, so the max we could lose to bombing there was 3. So if we had moved up more fighters, we probably would have lost more. But even if we just lost 17 a turn like this, I am not sure that is really sustainable.

What level air base were those located in?

ORIGINAL: jubjub

What level air base were those located in?

Riga (level 2 air base) had a normal group of 30something fighters, lost 5
Daugavpils (level 2 air base) had a stab of 3 planes, lost all 3 of them (100% lost)
Minsk (level 2 air base) had a normal group of 30something fighters, lost 8
Proskurov (level 2 air base) had a normal group of 30something fighters, lost 1 --- not sure why Proskurov was a lot lower than the others.

End of Axis Turn 2:

The south recovered well and pocketed substantial Soviet units, including quite a lot of tanks and mech, as you can see:



In the center, a good pocket which also has 3 tanks and 1 mech was formed on the land bridge:



In the north, Pskov was taken and two infantry divisions defending the forts to the south of Pskov were pocketed:

In post #23 above, we accidentally showed AGN recon twice instead of also showing AGC recon. That is fixed now so you can see the recon around Smolensk and the Dnieper.