Drang Naught Osten v. 3.7 Axis Turn 1

[Mad Cow]

My blinking engineer tried to fix the bridge right in the face of enemy units and it didn't work:

Ah, what's one regiment in a war of this size?

[:)]

[larryfulkerson]

That first posting about the engineer trying to fix a bridge while getting shot at was during the first combat round and it's now the second combat round and I've since moved up some support and another engineer who WAS able to rebuild the bridge:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's an updated moves movie showing the first three turns of Axis moves:
 

[larryfulkerson]

I'm running behind schedule....here's already turn 4 and I'm only just now getting around to setting siege to Minsk:
 

[larryfulkerson]

I'm at the point where I'm starting to move units in round two but I thought I'd do a movie first of the moves between turn 3 and round 1 of turn 4:
 

[larryfulkerson]

I got three rounds this turn.  This is the minimap view of the moves for the first four turns:
 

[larryfulkerson]

This MiniMap view shows the first FIVE turns of our game so far:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some Axis losses so far ( as of the end of turn 5 ):
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines as of the beginning of round two Axis turn 6:
 

[larryfulkerson]

With 162 attackers you'd think there'd be more than one destroyed aircraft:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the minimap view of the moves for the first SIX turns:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some Axis losses so far ( as of beginning of turn 7 ):
 

[Rekm41]

Can this be played against a PO?

[larryfulkerson]

I'm not at all sure this bad boy even has a PO programmed for it.  Maybe you could set the computer to play both sides and see if they attempt any attacks, etc.   PO's that don't stage any attacks but move in seemingly random directions usually don't have any objectives set for them and aren't a very good opponent.  But having said that, such a PO is easily defeated if that's your bag.
 
Anyway, this is what Odessa looks like to the Axis player:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the moves in the north third of the front lines in turn 7 as of round 2:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the moves as of round two of Axis turn 7 in the middle third of the front lines:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the moves in the south third of the front lines as of round 2 of Axis turn 7:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the minimap view of the moves for turns 1 thro 7:
 

[larryfulkerson]

There was a naval battle near Odessa in turn 8 and I lost about a quarter of the aircraft attacking but I got a boat load of the boats in the fleet:
 

[larryfulkerson]

Here' the situation north of Leningrad at round two of Axis turn 8: