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I tried a bridge attack at Bucharest but John had about 100 fighters there and I lost a slew of bombers again. I'm going to have to quit
bombing bridges I guess.

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

He's shipped some Panzers into this area

He did WHAT??? ROFLMFAO

You need to just run your army back to about twenty hexes of Moscow and wait for him. If that's how it is why bother with defensive lines? Luga River line to Valday Hills to Rhzev to Bryansk to the Dnepr. Rest your guys, gather reinforcements, save your artillery and build your airforce. Might as well since all sorts of very weird stuff is possible with this one. LOL.

Oh wait, you probably can't play with ignore losses with 3.4 can you? Wow. Without that the Reds are fairly screwed. Probably should have played with a version before 3.4.

Fight to the bloody end.

ORIGINAL: Lobster
You need to just run your army back to about twenty hexes of Moscow and wait for him. If that's how it is why bother with defensive lines? Luga River line to Valday Hills to Rhzev to Bryansk to the Dnepr. Rest your guys, gather reinforcements, save your artillery and build your airforce. Might as well since all sorts of very weird stuff is possible with this one. LOL.

That defensive line you described is approximately what I'm attempting. And I'm looking to defend forward this time. Last game against
a different opponent I tried the run-for-the-hills defense and it didn't work all that well. So this time I'm pushing the defense forward and
it's working okay so far. I had enough forces on hand to clog the exits from John's captured port so that he didn't get expanded all that
much so far.

ORIGINAL: Lobster
Oh wait, you probably can't play with ignore losses with 3.4 can you? Wow. Without that the Reds are fairly screwed. Probably should have played with a version before 3.4.

Yeah, we're using the ignore losses setting as is. It's helping me on defense in the early game and it will help John in the late game
phase. So we thought we'd play in spite of it.

OK I will bite. What does "ROFLMFAO" stand for?. Just got up and down loaded Larry's turn. Will run after breakfast.
john

ORIGINAL: fogger
OK I will bite. What does "ROFLMFAO" stand for?. Just got up and down loaded Larry's turn. Will run after breakfast.
john

ROFLMFAO = roll on the floor laughing my freeking ass off

Okay.....so it's Wed. 08:24 and I've received some moves from John and watched the replay etc. This is the Leningrad area. The Finns
are continuing to clear the terrain to the north of Leningrad and it's slow going. I'm still not sure where John's Panzers are right now but
I'm pretty sure he's using them to grab Leningrad somehow.

Here's the Smolensk area now. John is still working his way through my light screen and hasn't run his units up against my front lines
yet. I'm beginning to think he's going to go around the strongest part of my lines if he can. And there's plenty of places to go around.

Here's the Kiev area now. John is continuing to invest the Stalin Line and he's working his way SE along the river to probe the river
crossings and he's trying to find my weak spots.

Here's the Odessa area and in a surprise move John forced my defenders back and took the port of C-town on the coast NW of
Sevastapol. I'm thinking I might be able to contain it for a little while and maybe even force John to withdraw from there maybe. I've got
enough units present to put up a fight at least.

Here's how the air war is going right now.

Here's some of the losses so far:

Here's a close up of C-town now. It appears that John has shipped in some tanks and if he's done that he's serious about staying there
because I don't think he would risk his tanks unless he was planning on expanding his bridgehead and staying a while. I expect some
more shipments in future turns.

The Odessa area is really confused. The city itself is cut off from the outside world except for the port(s) and I'm thinking it can hold out
for about a week or so ( two turns ) before I may need to evacuate the wounded.

This is the Pskov area. John is probably thinking he can just roll past my defenders in the places where I don't have very many units yet.
What he probably doesn't know is that I've railed in some defenders to build a front line here. This picture is the beginning
of T11 and I haven't moved anything yet so I'm thinking I need to form a line along the rivers in this area to block John from traversing
through here. This is one of the major avenues to get to Leningrad and John may want it pretty badly. We'll see. I only gave a light
screen up there now so this new line may be what's needed here now.

This is the Mogilev area, just south of Orsha and the solid front lines I've built. I was relying on the river to be a defense but as you can
see John's units just lept across the river and have surrounded my defenders. I thought they would hold out longer than that but I guess
that as long as they are there they will hamper the Axis units in their passage through there. So there's some good coming from the
situation still.

This is the list of Soviet units that are scheduled to arrive in T12:

Soviet front lines are starting to form. Defensive looks like it is starting to stabilize. Looks good.

Looking good sofar, but we're reading Larry's AAR mostly so we don't really know what John's up to. He has proven to be a skillful player so far.
Personally I hope he's gonna kick some Fulkerson behind here hehe [;)]

ORIGINAL: Josh
Looking good so far,

I agree. I told John in an email that this is the best game I've had so far. And I really can't remember playing a more exciting game.

ORIGINAL: Josh
but we're reading Larry's AAR mostly so we don't really know what John's up to.

Yeah, I wish John would post more, hint, hint. I don't know about you guys but I like pictures that have some verbage w/ it to explain
what the picture is showing......like a comic book kind of thing. Because one picture can tell many many words worth of info.

ORIGINAL: Josh
He has proven to be a skillful player so far.

I agree. I'm impressed. I wasn't expecting this explosive display of gaming skill. I hope he keeps up the good work. My play style was
getting stale and I need a good workout.

ORIGINAL: Josh
Personally I hope he's gonna kick some Fulkerson behind here hehe [;)]

Yeah, he has been kicking my ass. And I'm having a blast.

Have I posted a picture of the south end of the Stalin Line yet? A close up? Here's what the south end of the Stalin Line looks like now.
It's been surrounded and John has been hammering on them and several of these clusters has already been disappeared. They aren't
going to hold out for much longer. I'm just guessing here.