D21 yet again. A tribute to the community as my thanks

[larryfulkerson]

It's still T98 round 2 and this is what is going on NW of Stalingrad right now. I just now managed to capture an intact river crossing over the Don River at Kazanskaya...I also own the river crossing at Vyoshenskaya and Krasny Don and I have my eye on the crossing at Kalach. Stalingrad is just offmap to the east and I have high hopes to own it before winter sets in.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T98 round 2 and I just now defeated a Soviet Infantry Division and occupied his hex so now there's just two more hexes to grab and I can capture Sevastopol finally. I'd like to destroy all these Soviet defenders and to do that I'll have to own the two port hexes in the pocket. Sevastopol itself of course and the hex three hexes NW from Yalta. If I can own those ports there would be no way they could escape.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T98 round 4 and I just now captured the river crossing at Rybinsk ( the topmost river crossing ). I also own the river crossing at Kalyazin ( third from the top ), and at Kimry, and one more whose name escapes me at the moment. It's raining cats and dogs and there's lots of muddy terrain to traverse. I'm going to need the crossing at Yaroslavl for supply purposes.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T99 round 1 and I just now captured the river crossing at Serpukhov ( south of Moscow ). I have a fairly good surround started on a small group of Soviet units in a salent shaped like a finger and I'm reducing the pocket. The 267th Infantry Division sneaked north then east then south into the unoccupied river crossing hex just south of Serpukhov. Note the use of weak Soviet units to man the front lines. A lot of the Soviet units that I'm fighting are cherry red.

I have 22.4K HRS's assigned and 588 HRS's on hand. I've lost all 41 of the Jeep's I had but there's 383 on hand so some should be assigned shortly. I've lost 5.9K+ trucks but there's still 5.8K of them assigned. I've lost all 33 PzKpfw II(flame) tanks and I'm not building them any longer. I've lost 2 Destroyer(Early) boats and 2 Destroyer boats and 1 Heavy Cruiser. I've lost 1561 Me-109E/F's but there's still 710 of them assigned and I'm going to quit making them on T108 but I've already started ( T88 ) building the Me-109(late) and there's already 244 of them assigned.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T99 round 5 and I stuffed some people through that small hole starting two turns ago, which I'm guessing is a week game time, and in that week I've gained a lot of territory, two river crossings, and I'm starting to roll up the Soviet front lines in front of Moscow. It's the middle of the year so the days will start getting shorter. I'd like to own Moscow by the end of the year.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T99 round 5 and if the goal is Stalingrad then I'm going to need the river crossings at Kalach and west of Krasny Don to allow the supply to flow. Actually the crossing at Krasny Don includes a rail and theoreticly could feed supply sufficient to take down Stalingrad. That's the theory.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T100 round 3 and I found a gap in the Soviet lines and drove the 40th Aufklar from the 14th Panzer Division to Stupino and captured the river crossing there. Elmer railed in some low strength units to screen the hole I made in his lines and I believe I can push those low strength units asside and get further into the Soviet backfield. I'm still in the process of rolling up the Soviet front lines and it's going rather well.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T101 round 3 and I managed to get a fairly good start on surrounding Moscow entirely. Case Blau has started this turn and my shock is 120 and the Soviet shock is 98 and will be for several turns from now. That makes this period of time the best time I will ever in this game have for investing Moscow. Now is the climax of the game. IMHO.

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[larryfulkerson]

I thought it might be helpful to get a view of the front lines as they are right now to help me do some planning for future projects.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T102 round 1 and I thought I'd go through some of the expected reinforcements to see what I need to grab yet to get the prize. I've run into at least three instances where I was sure I already own so I need to investigate those instances.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T102 round 2 and this is what's going on near Moscow right now. I've surrounded a small stack in the middle left, and I've got a good surround going on another small group and I'm converging on the city of Moscow slowly. About half of the map has rain clouds and there are multiple T-storms and no doubt some wind. The supply levels are great since the rails have been repaired all the way up to the front lines. I have 20.6K HRS's assigned and 821 HRS's on hand. I have lost 6.2K trucks but there are 5.6K trucks still assigned and I have 8.2K trucks on hand.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T103 round 1 and this is what's going on near Moscow right now. I've managed to sneak closer to the city and things are going well. I've got 20.8 HRS's assigned and 729 HRS's on hand. And it's raining cats and dogs still. Lots of muddy terrain and no doubt some high winds. Very cloudy with several T-storms and multiple productive rain clouds. But the supply levels are excellent.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T104 round 2 and this is what's going on near Stalingrad right now. I'm fighting over the most important crossing yet in the game. The Soviets have several large stacks of Soviet defenders and the going is tough. I doubt that I'll get through the Soviets so I'll need to go around them with some engineers to facilitate a passage over the river somewhere. On the other hand I've managed to stop up all the crossings over the Don River to protect my northern flank. I see some Soviet supply sources just offshore just east of Stalingrad. That makes it really difficult to starve the city of supplies.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T104 round 3 and this is what's going on just south of Moscow right now. I've managed to get a good surround on a small group of Soviet units and I'm in the process of mopping them up. My goal here is the city of Kalinin since it has an important railroad line running through there and I need that rail line to feed supply to my valient troops. With the disappearance of the Soviet units I'm destroying I hope that gives me a clear approach to the city itself. But I've got a sneaky suspicion that Elmer is going to rail a bunch of troops into that spot.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T105 round 1 and this is what's going on near Moscow right now. On the north edge I've managed to get a good surround on several small groups of Soviet units and I'm in the process of mopping them up. Those Soviet units in the small pale yellow circles are those I expect to disappear this turn. And when they are gone I should be able to push SE to the rail line leaving Moscow. I have 20.0K HRS's assigned and 545 HRS's on hand. It's about 3/10 cloudy but not raining anywhere. A typical summer day with a breeze. The rails are repaired all the way up to the front line so supply levels are excellent.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T105 round 1 and this is what's going on south of Moscow right now. I've managed to get a good surround on a small group of Soviet units and when they are gone I should be able to push NE to the river and east to Skopin this turn. Those Soviet units toward the south of this image are mostly weak Soviet units and I should be able to push those asside.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T105 round 2 and this is what's going on near Yaroslavl right now. I have bypassed some Soviet defenders and now the follow on forces are mopping up in my backfield. Just west of Yaroslavl is a ring of my units around an empty enemy hex and that is the spot where I just now destroyed a Soviet unit and those units can now find something else to do.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T105 round 2 and this is what's going on near Vologda right now. You can see how sparse the Soviet units are in this area. I have no idea why I'm pushing east in this AO because there aren't any objectives near here so this could be an example of wasted effort.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T105 round 2 and this is what's going on near Voronezh right now. I was trying to drive some units around the group of Soviet defenders at the bottom of the image but Elmer saw that and send some units to stop that and now I have an engineer unit stuck in the upper right area and I need to get him a supply path again and get him some support somehow. But I'm slowly pushing the Soviets backward.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T105 round 3 and I've managed to capture the two river crossings just west of Stalingrad. I need to use some engineers to leap over the river to get in the backfield of the river crossing defenders. The Italians ( yellow units) are having a devil of a time trying to defeat several Soviet divisions and they aren't making any headway so I'm going to have to dispatch some German units to help them. The Hungarians are trying to force their way south from Rostov and they aren't making any headway either.

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