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The South.

Brinksmanship at play- a Soviet joy ride sortie from Odessa is still a possibility, but I am counting on the panzer's mobility to be able to deal with that should it happen. Which reminds me, I need to deal with Odessa. Need to cross the Dnepr, need to finish Kiev... so many things to do- is there enough time?

Turn 15 ground losses.

Air losses.

Current OOB.

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

is there any industry still worth evacuating in Leningrad?

The BA-10 factory is still there.

Axis turn 15 saw the armored forces in the south turn to sweep along the right bank of the Dnepr, headed towards Dnepropetrovsk. I have a good reserve army in that sector so hopefully I can hold the city when he gets there. I spent plenty of AP this turn trying to get Southwestern Front organized, sorting the armies out into recognizable sectors and making sure that everybody was in command. All that fighting in Kiev and around Cherkassy had mixed things up terribly. I am somewhat OCD and this game reinforces that...


I tried bombing Luftwaffe bases down here to bring out his fighters, causing a few casualties but at least forcing him to make sorties.

In the central sector, the German flyboys were out in force, no need to encourage them with base bombing. On the ground, there were attacks across the whole sector, with the centerpiece a return to the land bridge region with the combined panzer armies. He stuck a big thumb up into my position, but without strong supporting infantry forces on the other side of the penetration, he was not able to pocket any of my guys. I tried a counter-attack to gain a small pocket on him, but once again the first unit attacked retreated into just the wrong spot and foiled my nefarious plan. Oh, well, pretty much all the guys who were in danger of being pocketed were able to retreat to a solid line to the north and east. I brought an army around from Western Front to back up the Reserve Front guys and bombed the dickens out of his tank spearheads. Hopefully, now they’ve been fighting for five turns steadily, they don’t have too many movement factors left.

Infantry assaults continued north and south of the main zone. A small armored group appeared along the road to Bryansk and another in the northern sector heading for the hills there. Unclear to me what they’re doing there, but I did my best to strengthen Bryansk Front to prevent a breakthrough there.

In the north, the big German dive into the swamps continued. I got my 55th Army HQ filled up with supplies, but the units themselves were still relying on air resupply. 7th, 8th, and 48th Armies were similarly short of supplies. Good thing I still have all those long-range bombers. An annoying thing, though – I still had many bombers with many miles left on them and yet after a while I couldn’t make any more resupply missions. I don’t know what the issue is. Anyway, hopefully this turn’s resupply phase will finally bring those 55th Army guys back to life, anyway.

Several of his salients in the north appeared unsupported but in each case I didn’t have enough movement points to get around and isolate him. I have noticed that my well-supplied armored units now have 25 movement points, but up there in the swamp my tanks have the same problem his do.

And finally, here is the OOB chart, permitting a quick overview of how we are faring in the war of attrition.

Since turn 9, the German army has remained about the same strength, while their air force is down about 200 planes. However, my army is 300,000 men stronger and has 3,000 more guns. The tank force has shrunk by a little over 2,000 but, best of all, my air force is 800 planes bigger and immeasurably more experienced.

How far behind your turns is the AAR guys?

Hi,

We are posting the AAR one turn behind where the game actually is.

Axis Turn 16

Around Leningrad one can see that AGN continues to inch closer to its objective in the north as well as claw forward through the terrain east of the Volkhov. Importantly, AGN MPs have begun cresting 30 regularly in recent turns.

Winter stop line positions have been decided on for AGN.

East of Smolensk, the Salient has evolved into more of a large dimple in the Soviet line where interesting things are happening. Vyazma is projected to be taken next week, but very strong enemy forces are before Moscow. The Luftwaffe has been busy but since OKH altered their mission parameters more planes and pilots are surviving week to week. The Axis has now encountered three Guards infantry divisions.

4 Army now fully across the river.

From the looks of the last picture it looks like you left the infantry inside the Panzer corps of 2nd Panzer Group?

AGS has so many objectives that this week positions are set to exploit any one of several; execution to depend on Soviet dispositions next week. The Abwehr objected to this shot being posted.

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

From the looks of the last picture it looks like you left the infantry inside the Panzer corps of 2nd Panzer Group?

When I saw how dense his forward defense was turning out to be, yes.

I thought it looked like a pincer offensive in the south was in mind but it looked like there was no support to get a breakthrough off the ground

Panzers as glorious as they are cannot both break through main lines of defence, depth and encircle on a large scale you
Infantry are great to smash through to the squishy underbelly for them first!

Ground losses. Not at all happy with the casualty picture the last few turns.

ORIGINAL: Twigster

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

From the looks of the last picture it looks like you left the infantry inside the Panzer corps of 2nd Panzer Group?

When I saw how dense his forward defense was turning out to be, yes.

Many keep them in separate corps though - if the motorised and infantry move apart there is no way to get corps to supply them both. Did you ever find it was impossible to keep both infantry and armour within 5 hexes of the HQ - and keep the motorised going as far as you wanted to?