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You disbanded a small bunch of footslogger brigades ( rifle, naval rifle, airborne ). [:(]

I've got 14 Cavalry Corps now and I plan on buying stuff to make some more.

ORIGINAL: randallw
You disbanded a small bunch of footslogger brigades ( rifle, naval rifle, airborne ). [:(]

Yeah, I saw that too. I don't remember what I was thinking at the time. I remember getting rid of a couple of Airborne HQ units, thinking that I wasn't going to have any Airborne Units that actually might profitably be used as Airborne troops for a long time yet, early '44 at best so I thought I'd recycle the troops into rifle divisions. I don't remember disbanding any rifle divisions, however I do remember merging a bunch of brigades into some of the weaker divisions to plump them up a bit. I got rid of a couple of SAD air bases thinking that they were going away anyhow. I'm hoping to generate some more air base units, more permanent ones, so I'm putting 9 air groups at each air base with the ultimate goal being to get some new airbases eventually. I thought about replacing some leaders but I don't have the AP's for that now, after buying all the new Rifle Divisions, Cavalry Divisions, and some new arty pieces.

I moved all the IL-4 production out of Moscow just because I could. And just in case.

Here's my moves such as they are.......plus an overlay showing my recon and attacks

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units and production. All those Rifle Brigades that I merged are showing up as destroyed units.
Whoa.

You may want to check each airbase to see if there are enough support squads for the air units.  Yeah, another thing to worry about, sorry. [:D]

ORIGINAL: randallw
You may want to check each airbase to see if there are enough support squads for the air units.  Yeah, another thing to worry about, sorry. [:D]

I'm running my air bases at a deficit right now ( I have 9 air groups on each airbase ) so that the game engine will generate some more airbases for me to use. I'll do some experimentation and see if I can't determine the optimum load for the support squads that are at an airbase and see if I can't find out what the magic number is for # of support squads for each fighter and for each bomber so I'll have a better idea how many planes I can base where. It'd be a good number to have on the top of your head I guess.

T38: Here's the front lines before any Soviet movement or recon. I'm adding an overlay to show the Axis recon flights. I didn't see any
battles though.

EDIT: I finally found some battles in the Crimea group.

Here's my moves such as they are:

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

T41: This is the front lines before any Soviet recon or movement. It looks like Far is going on the offensive in at least two places.

Here's a close up of the area near the Crimea. Or is *this* area the Crimea?

Here's a close up of the other area under attack:

Here's my moves with an overlay showing my attacks:

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

Ah, did you straight up disband that Guards rifle brigade or was it just merged to create a division?

T42: Here's the front lines before any Soviet recon or movement:

ORIGINAL: randallw
Ah, did you straight up disband that Guards rifle brigade or was it just merged to create a division?

It was a merger job. I don't understand why it's listed as destroyed. Game engine terminology I guess.

EDIT: Far called off the offensive in the Crimea area. I have no idea why though. Maybe his supply isn't condusive.

EDIT 2: I found out that this is a mud turn down there. Far doesn't like to attack in mud turns.

T42 is April 2, 1942 and that means I can start constructing tank Corps.  I've got 124 AP's left so that might build a few this turn.

Here's three of the new Guards Rifle Divisions I built just now.