Workshop for the new guys - Directive 21 (D21)

[marion61]

Can you not use ferry/bridging units to ford that major river and get behind those units guarding the crossings?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: marion61
Can you not use ferry/bridging units to ford that major river and get behind those units guarding the crossings?

That would be a good idea and yes, of course you could except for the fact that except for that one spot the rest
of the river hexes are flooded marsh which is impassable. D'oh. So That sort of forces me to do it the hard way.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what's happening up north right now. I'm counting on the fact that most of the
Soviet units are dug in around Leningrad and aren't keen on attacking my assets near
the bottlneck on the coast. So far so good. They aren't much in the way of combat
power but they DO cut the supply to Soviet units to the west of there. And the good
news is that I've found enough individual units to make up about two divisions and
they are headed north to arrive over the next several turns. Finally, more people.
That's probably leaving other areas in the lurch but all's fair in war.

EDIT: I might ought to explain what's going on with the aircraft. The Stuka's are
assigned to attack the BB and are escorted by all the Finn fighters assigned to this
attack. The game engines assigns fighters arriving in the attacked hex as escorts
automatically whether you want it to or not.

[marion61]

Not all the hexes along the river are flooded marsh. Several of them are just marsh/super river, which your ferry/bridging units can use to cross at. Might make taking Kiev and getting those other crossing easier to get at.[8D]

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: marion61

Not all the hexes along the river are flooded marsh. Several of them are just marsh/super river, which your ferry/bridging units can use to cross at. Might make taking Kiev and getting those other crossing easier to get at.[8D]

Hot Dog.......now we're talking. I had completely missed that. Thanks for the heads up.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Smolensk area right now. We're still fighting over the rail headed for Moscow. We can't win the war
without it. So the fighting is fierce and bitter. Units are starting to evaporate in attacks.

[larryfulkerson]

And in the tri-city area I'm approaching the north-south river and that means we're out of the area where we don't know
where the Soviet units are and needing big divisions to force the river crossings. So all the recon units can move off
to the Zhlobin area to get on the east side of Kiev.

[larryfulkerson]

And down south in the Odessa area I see how the supply level is increasing slowly. The rails approach this image from
the west about 10 hexes and it's slowly being repaired. This higher level of supply will eventually allow the invasion
of the Crimea by the Rumanians predominately. I need the Hungarians on the front lines on the east side of Kiev.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of the airstrike by the Stuka's on the Soviet naval unit and it looks like I sank 3 DD's and
damaged a couple of CA's. One out of every nine planes were shot down I think.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of the airstrike on the river crossing near Kiev, the one that has hundreds of bombers are involved.
And it appears that the Axis losses are pretty heavy. D'oh.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's Pskov now, in round three. The Axis units are spread out in little groups holding back little groups. If I had
more people I would have a proper front line and everything. This is working for now. Elmer is truely stupid.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie......I've moved everybody and all the combat is done and we're going to the next turn and the combat results
list is presented one last time and I see there were 53 battles this turn by the Axis.....that's how severe the fighting
is going on. The Soviets hardly ever reach that number though.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T19 front lines before I have moved anybody.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the situation in the NW of the front lines. I'm developing a pocket of Soviet stuff. The front lines in this
area are iffy and could be broken at any of several points but so far it's workikng.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the situation near Pskov and the fighting is still going on and has been since the beginning of the game. There's
been at least one battle near here since the beginning and I'm just rotating units in and back to rest. Rest and go back
in. I'm running through some replacements in this area. It's worse around Moscow however.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the situation around the NE of Kiev area right now. I'm still fighting over the river crossings and it's looking
like I'm going to have to extend to the east quite a bit to outflank the Soviet defenders. Which I'm going to have to
do at some point anyway, might as well see if it's possible now. May not be possible due to supply considerations.

[larryfulkerson]

North of Smolensk quite a ways is Veliky Luki and this is the situation there right now. I've defeated a Soviet
defender and now have gotten into his backfield and this is another occasion where I don't have the reserves to
thrust into this boon. I'm in his backyard and there's no dog and the back door is open. No need to break a window.
If I had just one more division I think I could safely keep this back door open.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Smolensk area right now and I appear to have found a hole to drive through. Too bad I don't have the
reserves to follow through with this boon. I need to establish a reserve by breaking the units down into there
pieces leaving some at full strength for counterattacks.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the area just west of Bryansk and as you can see there's a severe shortage of units and all I need now is one
more Soviet unit to make the whole thing collapse.

[DanNeely]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Here's the results of the airstrike by the Stuka's on the Soviet naval unit and it looks like I sank 3 DD's and
damaged a couple of CA's. One out of every nine planes were shot down I think.

9% is only 1 in 11, and only 11 of the 52 aircraft in the loss column were actually shot down, the rest just have a bunch of holes that need patched up before they're combat ready again.