Clearing up the pockets leaves the Red Army down by 160k men, 1.8k guns and 80 AFVs - 30 units were lost.
Cherepovets and Volodga are occupied.
Yaroslavl is heavily defended, but I have the numbers to try a direct assault with heavy air support and manage to force the defenders to retreat.
Vladimir is taken as well, trapping 8 Soviet units.
Murom is reached, but not taken this turn since there is stil a Soviet rifle brigade next to it.
Arzamas is taken without any resistance and a small pocket established to the south of it.
Kuybyshev is encircled by 4. Panzerarmee with 2. Armee holding the south and west.
Down in the Kaukasus Batumi is occupied and Hungarian armor is 50km west of Tiblisi.
With 287 VPs I just need another light urban city (Kuybyshev/Ivanovo) or 3 cities (Murom, Cheboksary, Tiblisi) for a decisive victory, 1. Panzerarmee will just stay in the south since it is too far away to make any difference, but I try to send in 22. Panzerdivision from the east towards Tiblisi (air supply of 370t of fuel for them, bringing fuel levels to 106%).
In the center 4. Panzerarmee is resupplied by air for their assault on Kuybyshev. This is the major assault for the next turn and together with the 2 corps from 2. Armee I am fairly confident that the city will fall.
The Red Army lost another 105k men, 1.9k guns and 44 AFVs this turn with the Wehrmacht getting slightly stronger.
I am a bit unhappy about the lack of a Soviet air offensive, sure bombing does seem to have fairly minor effects and the Soviets would surely lose lots of planes, but in a desperate situation like this I would have hoped for some desperate attempts.
