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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

He keeps backing up to keep me from making any deliberate attacks I think.

Maybe not a bad idea....but not in SNOW! If he's running in SNOW turns, it's going to be pretty brutal for him in Blizzard.

Get your Cav Corps ready...this is going to be a wipeout. See you in Poland, Comrade!

The war is already over. He is way too far west, doesn't have Leningrad, didn't cause enough casualties and didn't capture enough factories. Gaining the Cherkassy-Gomel-Mogilev-Vitebsk-VL line seems almost a given. Additionally, he has to stop running somewhere or you will retake Kiev, Pskov and even Minsk. And once he stops, you will be fighting unfortified Germans in Blizzard.

Basically you have an auto-win from here. Launch a broad front offensive with many local attacks aimed at causing casualties, and perhaps cutting off some individual units. Reach a defensible stop-line for Spring 42. Use early/mid 42 to fortify, build up corps, and start bulldozing him off the map starting in mid/late 42 by virtue of a vastly superior replacement rate.

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production

Here's a close-up of the Lake Ladoga area now.

Here's my moves and the overlay of my attacks

Here's the T26 front lines before any Soviet movement

you move him down south far enough past odessa, the Rumanians and Hungarians will surrender, thats what happened to me in my game, came as a shock.

I did some Axis air base strikes and got some good hits. He's still not parking some fighters on bases that have non-fighters based there. I mean he's got bombers and recon at a base where there's no fighters in the hex on their air base. I'm pretty sure he'd have less losses if he did that.

ORIGINAL: miller41
...came as a shock.

Coolness. Nice that a simple game can exercise our emotions too.

An animation of my moves and attacks. I'll post the ground losses due to my attacks in the next panel.

I was hoping to find the losses for this turn but here's what the ground losses screen showed. Anybody know what the secret is to get the losses for the turn to show? Sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not. Maybe it has something to do with how many times I've viewed the losses screen during the turn or something. The first time being the losses for the turn so far and the next time being the losses total or something.

I moved all the IL-2 production out of Mosow just because I could. Plus, that would leave Moscow empty and not vulnerable anymore. I'm just saying.........

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I was hoping to find the losses for this turn but here's what the ground losses screen showed. Anybody know what the secret is to get the losses for the turn to show? Sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not. Maybe it has something to do with how many times I've viewed the losses screen during the turn or something. The first time being the losses for the turn so far and the next time being the losses total or something.

I've found you have to look at losses before moving any units

Sillyflower is right, but that doesn't show the entire picture IMO. I think some stuff is still not displayed.

I use excel to keep track of losses. (Current losses end of turn - previous end of turn losses). The only inaccuracy is the return of disabled men to the pool.

Here's the T27 front lines before any Soviet movement:

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production:

I moved my units and did my land attacks and then did about a dozen Axis air base strikes and got some really good hits. He lost more than I did in planes this time. Unusual.

Here's the ground losses for this turn ( reflecting my attacks ):

Well, here's my T27 moves with an overlay of my attacks:

Here's the T28 front lines before any Soviet movement. Note the close approximation to the front lines in the last turn.