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Turn 7. Smolensk, Kiev, and Pskov all fall this turn.

Blue also abandons the blitzkrieg strategy in favor of the combined arms deliberate attack strategy.


An appropriate meme.


Some of these painful routs:

We can't let Blue have all the fun though now, can we? We try our own combined arms tactics.

RedJohn wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:34 pm
Turn 7. Smolensk, Kiev, and Pskov all fall this turn.

Blue also abandons the blitzkrieg strategy in favor of the combined arms deliberate attack strategy.


An appropriate meme.

DA's are where it is at. Germans are GAWDLY at it in 41. Thumbs up to the meme

RedJohn wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 7:16 pm

We can't let Blue have all the fun though now, can we? We try our own combined arms tactics.

Poor Germans

Another turn, another 100,000 lost. Just your average Eastern Front action.



The Vyazma meatgrinder continues, our ill-planned attack on the Fleiger division might result in the loss of units north of Kiev, and Nikolaev is surrounded. German armored elements also reach the outskirts of Bryansk.

RedJohn wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:38 pm Another turn, another 100,000 lost. Just your average Eastern Front action.

100,000 is not going to cut I am afraid Germans need higher, much higher to have an effect on what needs to be done.

Turn 9. Light mud at Leningrad. The Vyazma meatgrinder continues, Bryansk falls, and the noose tightens around our men north of Kiev. A sad loss. Nikolaev is also once again surrounded.

Turn 10. No significant developments, besides Talinn falling this turn. Unfortunately no routs, so they displaced to the neighbouring hex.

A closer look at what the brave men on the western front are facing.

And some battles:









And one of the battles at Leningrad:

Great success, we cut the Smolensk rail and kill two axis commanders. Unfortunately I lack any more units for deeper penetration.

Soviet Mobility - or how I learned to love cavalry

Here we see the soviet cavalry in it's natural habitat - lurking on the flanks of the German army and slowly edging closer every turn to surprise them.



The cavalry edges closer - it has spotted it's prey, HQs and rail lines.



And it strikes! Unfortunately all commanders escaped well, but still it is a disruption.



Having heard the call to hunt, more Soviet cavalry descend upon the flanks.



More HQs displaced, unfortunately a single hex short of cutting off the entire thrust.

Elsewhere, Soviet cavalry isolate 2 German divisions allowing for subsequent routs by Rokossovosky. The 3rd is hit and forced to retreat.

And south-west of Kursk we cut off the German tip.



A successful hunt.

Blue has indicated a desire to restart, so we'll probably be doing that.

My unbeaten soviet winstreak continues.