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Those tanks didn´t turn to do battle, they were just to slow to escape the lighning fast, ultra hard-hitting skitroops!

Basically this sums it up: My forces are unable to even extract themselves, much less fight the enemy. Oh dear...what to do[&:]

As soon as word reaches the artillery that skitroops are facing open terrain and enemy reinforcements there is a mad scramble to put as much smoke rounds in the air as possible (or well, that's the other reason. Being low on "real" ammo is also a factor).

Closing in on the last enemy flags. I fear Ivan is not going to give those up so easily, as it could mean routing of the forces and end of battle. Then what would one say to the Politruk. After hearing of the "retreat", he promptly started oiling his Nagant.

-Jani

Reinforcements are now being commited against the forward enemy elements with decent effects. No doubt this will only warn the Finns to tread more carefully.

Of my original force, the northern element is all that´s left, and it is still fencing with enemy troops in the woods where this fateful engagement began.

Enemy reinforcements swarm across the plains, it's decidedly hazardous to venture out in the open. But deep inside the forests and hidden by smoke Finnish troops swarm over the enemy's home flags, overrunning two ammo dumps. One squad of eager skiers ventures right into an ammo dump, throws a satchel charge and dissappears in a mushroom cloud, the other dump is destroyed from a distance [:-]

Finns hold all the objectives now and most of them are now hidden in smoke. This is good, since the enemy has become more cautious of woods and smoke.

-Jani

It is over! Congratulations to the SPWaW Champion 2003: Mighty dodger!

The end came quickly, and from an unxpected angle. Colonel Sharfshutzki was exhorting the newly arrived troops to give their very best in the counterattack near their former ammo storage, and the reports were heartening (at long last). The artillery had fallen as scheduled, and suppression of enemy forces was satisfactory to allow for a fierce cavalry charge. The enemy was reported routed and pushed back some 200m. Within minutes, they would have regained the area, and pursuit the Finns to Viipuri and beyond. That the enemy had brought another heavy battery into play mattered little: Their forces were strung out over a much larger area now, and losses were acceptable. Payback was coming...Sharfshutzki rubbed his hands in glee: At last... [;)]

The Colonel was shaken out of his musings by the sharp noise of a Tokarev pistol being readied. Turning around, he saw his Politruk aiming a gun at him:

"Comrade, you have failed the people of the Soviet Union. Losing our precious ammo storage is unexcusable. We should have attacked boldly instead of fleeing all the time. You will pay the ultimate price for your cowardice"

Sharfshutzki wanted to explain that the tide was turning, that the Finns were overstrtched and suffering, that...

Bang went the gun.
It was over.

Congratulations Dodger! Well done! Now we have a mastermind of PBEM here in Finland[:)][:)]

Thank you very much, but this mastermind can't get an AAR uploaded anywhere. I made an HTML file with screenshots (the screenshots were too big to attach to a post) and made a ZIP, but there's noplace to put it

-Jani

Congradulations dodger, sorry for my late response, as far as your other request, Matrix no longer supports large, or small files being added to posts due to the limit on total upload storage. In the past you could post great ARR's without worring about getting ride of prior screen shots. That has gone the way of the dodo, though. To bad, but I think it was mainly do to other people posting there turns on the web site instead of sending them to e-mail accounts. And since storage costs money they had to put this into effect.
As far as what you can attept is go into your storage area, I am not sure where you do it but you can go to an area that allows you to purge old attachments. This would allow you to delete attachments that are old and get you under the attachement limit.

Well congradualtions again.

I appologize to all the SPWAW players that are out there who are missing me. I have been busy and I have to admit I got tired of waiting for Combat Leader Cross of Iron and went looking for a new game to play, well I found one, a particularly addicting Mmorg. [X(] [&o]

What mmorg? What's a mmorg? [:-]