Well as I thought I could not get to 750 VP and maxed out at 733. We are now on turn 26 and I have been limping my way back from the eastern wastelands to hopefully what will be a safe home to my planned back up line. Ryazan has been abandoned and taken back and I suspect many more VP cities will be liberated.PeteJC wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2023 1:17 pmTo be fair, it is his first time playing as Soviet. Previously we played 3 games where I was Soviet and I had extensive solo play before that as German so I had a large experience advantage. Add on that I am retired with minimal family commitments, and he works full time with a young daughter. So, let's just say I can allocate much more time to each turn.M60A3TTS wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2023 12:46 pmIf you are in fact 10 hexes from Saratov and 7 from Stalingrad this early, it doesn't sound as if you have much to worry about. It's as though your opponent has no experience with the game.PeteJC wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2023 11:25 am I am playing a human and he will coordinate his efforts and maximize his attacks. The trucks are definitely a concern as I am sure I will be wearing them all out (and have been during all these mud months as we are on turn 20 at the moment). That may really hamper me come spring offensive time. I wonder too about losing the bonus points on the the cities I have taken that I will not be able to hold (i.e. Rostov, Ryazan Voronezh ). I highly doubt I will get back those bonus points when/if I take them back come '42 so overall I may have been better off waiting. Oh well, the die has been cast....
I expect a very difficult winter as I am pretty sure I have hit my ultimate high-water mark (on turn 20 at the moment) and see no way of holding all this "extra" land. He had forgotten to put the regenerated units in Reserves on 100% TOE & Refit for a few turns so he will be getting a boatload of units this turn. Then in a few turns comes the 200 AP dump. The weight of all those units will inevitably push me back quite a bit and as Tall Blond mentioned my truck situation may soon be coming to a breaking point. At the end of my turn 20 I only have 8,330 in the pool and a whooping 101,551 in repair. I am no logistics expert but that does not seem good.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and knowing what I know now I would not have gone for the 1/1/42 750VP win. Things have taken a full 180 degree turn. His map men are now 500K higher than mine and I suspect that will be at about 1M by the spring. Going to be a long tough winter. May very well be a crappy spring too.