Matrix Games Forums

I have reason to believe that the Axis forces destroyed 15 Soviet units during turn 18: 13 infantry types and 2 guns types. Nothing changed near Odessa so I didn't do a movie of it. Here's the Axis losses so far:

Here's the north half of the front lines

Here's the south half of the front lines:

I've done an inventory of the Axis units ( early turns ) and here's what I found:

of 1159 total units there are:
30 engineers
14 paratroop units ( broken down )
20 MP units
26 regular arty units
9 railroad arty units
7 rocket units ( like arty sortof )
30 railroad repair engineers
10 AT guns
6 AA guns
19 security units
3 Slovak units
15 Hungarian units
3 Italian units
5 Romanian garrison units
49 Romanian units
2 Romanian coastal forts
27 German fighters
39 German light bombers
12 misc. Finn units
4 Finn coastal forts
60 Finn land combat units ( infantry etc. )
23 German garrison units
21 German coastal forts
49 Turkish units
494 everything else ( which includes German land combat units )

Here's the moves minimovie from turns 15 throu 19: [ you can tell that the action slows down when I meet up with his front lines ]

And now a series of close-ups starting at the north sector:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south:

And the next sector to the south: [ nothing changed at Odessa so...]

I think the Axis forces destroyed 18 Soviet units in turn 19: 15 infantry types and 3 guns. Here's the Axis losses so far:



The number of HRS's assigned decreased this turn from last turn...that means my army is getting slowly weaker.

Here's the north half of the front lines as of the end of turn 19:

Here's the south half of the front lines as of the end of turn 19:

Here's the entire front lines in a smaller view:

Near Murmansk I have a division of Finn troops that I need to decide where to put [them]. I originally thought to move them north to replace the German troops and start a small war to move on Murmansk directly but in reviewing the supply situation [ the hexes in the far north have all 9's for supply and those in the southern positions have at least 19 and 36 on the roads ] I decided to move them south to replace the Germans there instead and try to force the Soviet troops back to expose the Murmansk rail line instead.

Mistake?

The next problem I consider is the one near Leningrad. There is always the local shortage of available troops in war and that seems to be the case now. I don't have enough assets [ troops ] to man a large front to push forward and maintain flank security at the same time there along the coast which suggests a "probing finger" kind of push toward Leningrad. But probing fingers are easily thwarted and risk being cut off and destroyed because of the lack of flank security. So that suggests a "broad front" kind of push instead and therein lies the problem.

the situation to the immediate south of Leningrad: I had originally thought to swing to the northeast of Leningrad to isolate the city and possibly stop supplies from arriving in the city but it appears that the Soviet calvary has arrived in the nick of time for the defenders so that I have to re-do my plans.