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Thanks Randall, will try and remember what you say, I must say soviet units are brittle right now, can not maintain attacks for to long or they are burned out. I have alot of troops but they are not all that good, there are just LOTS of them[:D] Oh and my air force couldn't bomb a brothel and hit it[&o]

Kharkov front, another place he may have to fall back from.

Stalino front, Crimean units are shown in the south, but they didn't fight this turn but have linked up. Hope to anchor my line on the Dnepr[8D]

Night attacks by bombers should be able to cause at least some troubles for any lonesome stack HQs.

Are you finding Belphigor's defense harder to crack then Haudrauf's?  It looks like he's falling back in good order.  Loosing that panzer division will hurt him in experience come next summer.

Are you finding Belphigor's defense harder to crack then Haudrauf's? It looks like he's falling back in good order. Loosing that panzer division will hurt him in experience come next summer.

Good question, and yes it is much harder because I caught Haudrauf right after he had finished attacking, which he did in the center till the blizzard. I was able to roll over him much easier. Although i am advancing here he seems to be trading space for time, and that may be what needs to be done. It is challenging to try and drive him back and maintain my command and control. We will have to compare who comes out better as I was not able to encircle many of Haudrauf's troops either, soviet mobility is not very good at this point of the war, or else I am not aggressive enough[:D]

Decided that I am going to do updates every 2 turns, this will allow the game to move along a little quicker, as it takes me hours sometimes to do the AAR. Hope this doesn't cause anyone to lose interest. Turn 30 did not have any breakthroughs and more severe combat. He is backing up his lines well and any armor or cavalry that does penetrate runs smack into more dug in Germans I am pushing him back but in the center am starting to run outside my rail supply, and the supply levels of forward units is starting to drop some, not bad yet but it will get worse the farther west I go.

Make sure your Army HQs have the max amount of construction batts, and have some rail construction units too.

Also keep space open ( no stacks of doom ) on friendly rail hexes that are damaged, for the batts to move onto.

The way the game sort of works, morale adjusts fatigue, and fatigue adjusts MP penalties.  So the game begins with a MP deficit for the Sovs and you work your way to closing it.

ORIGINAL: randallw

Make sure your Army HQs have the max amount of construction batts, and have some rail construction units too.

Also keep space open ( no stacks of doom ) on friendly rail hexes that are damaged, for the batts to move onto.

The way the game sort of works, morale adjusts fatigue, and fatigue adjusts MP penalties.  So the game begins with a MP deficit for the Sovs and you work your way to closing it.

Ah all this is garbage...you should be running Miller...run before you meet your DOOM!

*this posting is made by Axis Fanboy INC and is not affiliated with any thing in particular...[:D]

ORIGINAL: miller41

I am pushing him back but in the center am starting to run outside my rail supply, and the supply levels of forward units is starting to drop some, not bad yet but it will get worse the farther west I go.

The way to combat this is to supply drop directly onto your HQ's.

Their supply dumps will go up, and they will use these to supply your troops.

When you hotkey R show rail, you can see wheres light gray/dark grey.

These are the areas which are beginning to get to far away from the railhead.

I presume you don't have any or only a few NKPS rail repair yet.

So just build some RR brigades and attach them at FRONT level and park the FRONT at the last railhead where you wanna repair.

Ah all this is garbage...you should be running Miller...run before you meet your DOOM!

*this posting is made by Axis Fanboy INC and is not affiliated with any thing in particular...

[:D] Russian's just don't run away, they panic[X(], but when not in panic mode there mean as hell

The way to combat this is to supply drop directly onto your HQ's.

Their supply dumps will go up, and they will use these to supply your troops.

When you hotkey R show rail, you can see wheres light gray/dark grey.

These are the areas which are beginning to get to far away from the railhead.

I presume you don't have any or only a few NKPS rail repair yet.

So just build some RR brigades and attach them at FRONT level and park the FRONT at the last railhead where you wanna repair.

All good advice, and I will use it for sure, have some RR construction giong on now but this advice will help.

January 15th and it is freezing in Russia[:D]. The word is pressure and move forward at all costs. Loses are high but so are the enemies and I hope to have some breaks in the line shortly. As you will see some areas are already giving way and I got to 2 HQ's last turn

Here are the losses for turn 31

Leningrad/Volkov front, this is where the progress is being made right now.

Kalanin front

It is questionable whether you can reach that new line; you have about two months left, which means an average of one hex gained, all across the line, per turn.  At minimum you want to recapture hexes that will be good to defend from, come spring.  Things feel good now, but when spring comes most German divisions will get their CVs back above most of yours.

Very true sir, i am learning that in the other game[:(] but as you can see from the line, it is through good terrain or rivers, and if i cannot do that I will stop at the swamp, my men love swamps for some reason.

More screens after I go get the dogs some new food[:D] Have to take care of them or it is the end of me

Dogs are happy now[&o] so back to the war

Orel/Kursk front, just slogging along and trying to cut off Kursk, but the huns are being very stubborn about the whole run away thing[:-]

Smolensk front, same issues, am going to try and encircle the cities of Smolensk and Bryansk vice fighting through them.

Kharkov, map has my comments, as I do tend to repeat myself, yes I am getting old[:D]

Finally the Crimean front, hope to get to the Dnepr and dig in there.

Might want to harass his airbases, since they have some importance to your opponent ( resupply drops ).