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Turn 2 - June 29, 1941

Ground Phase

Admin Points
I got 26 and that don't seem like enough.

Weather
Weather is clear with some rain in Germany.

Reinforcements
The Turn Summary indicated I had 77.
I see:

1x Tank Division
1x Mech Division
1x Motorcycle Regiment
22x Rifle Divisions
1x Mountain Rifle Brigade
1x Cavalry Division
5x Artillery Regiments
3x Corps HQs
3x Armies (16th, 24th and Luga OpGr)
2x Construction Battalions

Reserves
32x Artillery Regiments
2x AT Regiments
1x AA Battalion

Northern Front
1x AA Battalion

More Mess Fixing

Where is all my units? Oh, there they are, measly rascals..

Basically just moving units into position or out of position or into reserve or forming a new line or reinforcing a sector or helping a pocket regain supply.

Theater Boxes

Northern Front
Ground at 68%, Air Day at 109%. Will need to work with that in upcoming turns.

Transcaucasus
Ground at 73%, Air Day at 143%. Will need to work with that in upcoming turns.

Far East
Ground at 81%, Air Day at 143%. Will need to work with that in upcoming turns.

Reserves
35 Combat Divisions, all units varying in TOE from 0-100%. Six AT units will be transferred to the Map. The rest I'll keep in the Reserves to get both their TOE and Morale up.


End of Turn Overview

OOB


Production




Well, everything is still in shambles. I created a city Fortress in Tallinn which cost 10 AP, and 1 Fort in the Crimea for 1 more AP and I created 1 Depot for the Leningrad MD. More on turn 3.

Map Highlights

There is not really much to show, HLYA will recon in force so you can see what he bumps into.

The only thing interesting is the Mountain Division Debacle here.


This is a selfish plug for my font/counter/symbiology mod, (especially the Blk Sea Amphibious HQ) lol.



OOB:

Ground Losses:


Air Losses:




...to be continued...

NOTES
We upgraded to version 1.02.17 Beta.

Turn 3 - July 6, 1941


Events



Eastward Evacuations (those 6 million cows will be leaving some pies for HLYA)

Turn Summary


Reinforcements
125 Ground and 19 Air.

Friendly Losses
51,802 men (down by 570,644 from last turn! We are winning the war!), 896 guns (down 8,806 from last turn! More evidence of winning!), 313 AFVs (down 3,653 from last turn!) and 44 aircraft (down 1,214 from last turn!).

Maybe HLYA will surrender by turn 4?

OB Changes
Men on map and in TB up significantly, on map guns, AFVs and air are down but up in TB. The Axis total OB changes are minimal at best.

Logistics
Trucks in unit is short by 49,039 (difference of 13,939 from last turn).
Trucks in Depots looks fantastic, and in Pool looks good, lots in repair.
Supply tons received is short by 12,278. Ammo tons received and men received look very good to me (still don't know what the Tons Dif means yet).

Combat Unit Alerts
Have 285 on map units (up 20 from last turn), of which 116 or low supply, 15 Isolated, 76 understrength, 68 unready and 7 depleted.

Reinforcements & Transfers

Report shows 125 for this turn, breaks down as:
6x Tank Divisions
2x Mech Divisions
49x Rifle Divisions (29x Rifle Divisions and 20x Militia Divisions)
1x Mountain Division
1x Naval Rifle Brigade
1x Mountain Rifle Brigade
17x Cavalry Divisions
13x Artillery Regiments
2x Artillery Battalions
27x AT Regiments
1x NKVD Border Guard
1x Army HQ (31st)

19x Air Groups

ORIGINAL: Zovs

...
Supply tons received is short by 12,278. Ammo tons received and men received look very good to me (still don't know what the Tons Dif means yet).

Tons Dif is Fuel (as icon suggests), when you play as Axis look at it, it is always negative (until it runs out and some code kicks in, in order to keep it at same level).
Enjoy responsibly!

Air Planning Phase

Yikes! I'll show you what the HLYA can do to your front lines in a bit. Everyone is on GS and I am trying only 1 critical GA near Narva.

Air Execution Summary



Only 760 sorties, lost 26 and 13 damaged.

The 1 GA did not do much at all but lose me 2 fighters and 6 bombers (loss ratio was 0.96% for the fighters and 2.92% for the bombers), no losses to the Germans and one +2, three +1 and four +0 interdiction levels.


The one recon in the SW Front had some good DL.

ORIGINAL: Stamb

ORIGINAL: Zovs

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Supply tons received is short by 12,278. Ammo tons received and men received look very good to me (still don't know what the Tons Dif means yet).

Tons Dif is Fuel (as icon suggests), when you play as Axis look at it, it is always negative (until it runs out and some code kicks in, in order to keep it at same level).
Enjoy responsibly!

36.16 The difference in the fuel stores+pool is from the metrics screen turn differential.

ORIGINAL: Zovs
Yikes! I'll show you what the HLYA can do to your front lines in a bit.

Best advice I can give you can be summed up in four words.


Stay in the game.

Thanks M60 (and have positive attitude) lol

Sorry the game CTD on my 3 times due to testing some things so the numbers are a bit skewed with regards to Air losses.

Intermission while while a CTD is inspected.

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

ORIGINAL: Zovs
Yikes! I'll show you what the HLYA can do to your front lines in a bit.

Best advice I can give you can be summed up in four words.


Stay in the game.

Zovs has nothing to worry about. I am not going for a turn 16 victory. Now the turn 29 victory condition could be another 'Story'. But yeah Zovs will be in the game since I am pretty much slow playing this. Slow playing as in take it easy on my PZ's and having "focused" objectives. Or did you have another meaning M60?.....

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

ORIGINAL: Zovs
Yikes! I'll show you what the HLYA can do to your front lines in a bit.

Best advice I can give you can be summed up in four words.


Stay in the game.

Zovs has nothing to worry about. I am not going for a turn 16 victory. Now the turn 29 victory condition could be another 'Story'. But yeah Zovs will be in the game since I am pretty much slow playing this. Slow playing as in take it easy on my PZ's and having "focused" objectives. Or did you have another meaning M60?.....

I like your more paced playstyle and have tried to emulate it in the Darojax MP game. It has come with good results.

Another meaning? It's just another rendition of the line that you aren't defeated until you say you are.

I got HLYA right where I want him 😉

😂

So continuing on. I think this is where I left off. I just submitted my turn 3 to HLYA (I also updated to beta 18, so he should also be updating tonight).

Turn 3 - July 6, 1941

Battle Locations (from previous turn - sans any Soviet Air

Tallinn Lost and Narva bombed


Pskov Area (not isolated, yet).


Tarnopol (2x Rifle Divisions).


Kamenets-Podolsk Pockets (1x Rifle Corps HQ, 1x MC HQ, 1x Mech Division, 4x Mountain Divisions, 2 Rifle Divisions and 1 Cavalry Division).

Logistics Phase Report

Freight
Generally overall looks good. Arkhangelsk MD, Northwestern Front, Kharkov MD, Southwestern Front, North Caucasus MD, Orel MD, and Volga MD took some series supply hits (between Supply Need and Received).

Soviet trucks captured: 10,418

Replacement
138 damaged AFVs returned to the pool.
28 damaged AFVs were not repairable.

Arrival
65 ShAP transferred to Northern Front
3x IAP transferred to Soviet Reserves

Leaders


Upgrade
Various upgrades a few name changes, forgot to screenshot.

Supply
509 trucks have been lost during the campaign due to unit movement (the Germans are worse at driving, lol).

1,514 trucks were repaired and returned to the logistics pool.

Production
30,000 trucks were mobilized!

Ground Phase

Admin Points
I got 37 and that still don't seem like enough.

Weather
Weather is clear with some rain in Germany.

Theater Boxes

Northern Front
Ground at 69% (up by 1%), Air Day at 109% (down by 1%).

Transcaucasus
Ground at 80% (up 7%), Air Day at 141% (down 2%).

Far East
Ground at 90% (up 9%), Air Day at 135% (down 8%).

Reserves
82.88 Combat Divisions (up 47.88), all units varying in TOE from 0-100%. Transferring to the map: 27th Mech Corps HQ. Keeping the rest in Reserve for now.

Ground Movement

End of Turn Overview

Soviet Battles

Total this turn 22

Deliberate: 2
Held: 2

Air
Observed: 4
Interdict: 16
Supplies: 22

Well, everything is still in shambles. I am trying to create defensive lines, reposition units and build up some type of fighting force.

Map Highlights

Gulf of Finland (note the two combat delays of 3, where I desperately counter-attacked).


Germans on the Narva.


Can Pskov be saved (the answer is obvious).


Lost causes.

OOB:


Ground Losses:


Air Losses:




...to be continued...