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WEEK 132 - 12/23/43

At long last, Moscow is liberated as the commander of the 454th Security Division surrenders. General-Lt. Rokossovsky has been reassigned to 5th Shock Army that accepts the surrender of the 454th, while General-Armii Konev takes command of the Western Front. The Soviet government returns to Moscow and resumes normal functions.

The soldiers of the Leningrad Front now march west unopposed except for a lone Finnish fortification on the northern edge of the front

A series of German attacks meant to slow progress in the Baltics is met by an even heavier series of counterblows by Red Army units.

Along the Lower Dnepr near Cherkassy, several Rumanian divisions are isolated by units of 3rd Shock Army.

Ground Losses



Air Losses

Note the losses by air-to-air combat is now less that 2:1 in the Axis favor. Experienced pilots given the best aircraft pays off.
Flak losses of Axis aircraft exceed that of Soviet
Only in operational losses does the Soviet significantly exceed Axis



OOB

Baltic fighting



Fighting around Cherkassy

WEEK 133 - 12/30/43

Leningrad and Northwest Fronts continue to march west against virtually no opposition.

Attacks continue all across the Western and Belorussian Fronts.

In the south, mud reduces combat operations along the Bug. Two Rumanian and one German infantry division are isolated at Cherkassy. Other Rumanian and Hungarian divisons are routed. In the Crimea, it appears that a lone Rumanian division stands between the Red Army and Sevastopol.

In administrative matters, one rather pugnacious army commander has been pestering Marshal Zhukov for weeks to be a reassigned to another command. He finally gets his wish and is transferred to the Belorussian Front.

ah the hero of stalingrad. good to see that he is still alive.[:)]

good lose ratio and good advance. end of 43 and you are 200 km away from königsberg. well done.

WEEKS 134 to 136 - 1/6/44 to 1/20/44

The Leningrad Front continued its march westwards without opposition. Only the weather prohibited faster movement.

Northwest of Moscow, the cities of Vishny Volochek, Torzhik, Kalinin and Rzhev welcomed their liberators.

In Baltic operations, the battle lines rolled up to the gates of Kaunas.

Southwest of Gomel, the Germans abandoned most of their remaining Dnepr defenses. Only around Kiev did the Fascists choose to remain with a handful of divisions. The Red Arny began to close in on Kiev from the south.

In Southern Ukraine operations, the Red Army crossd the Yuzhny Bug in force and continued the advance to the west.

In the Crimea, the last Rumanian unit was driven from Sevastopol.

Leningrad Front



Northwest of Moscow



Baltic Operations



West of Gomel



Kiev



Odessa

WEEKS 137 and 138 - 1/27/44 and 2/3/44

The German Army is in full retreat. The weight of nearly five Soviet fronts supported by four artillery armies and thousands of aircraft bear down between Riga and Brest Litovsk. Ivan Chernyakhovsky's 2nd Shock Army captures the town of Sudauen in East Prussia. Fighting is now focused in the direction of Koenigsburg which has the potential to trap a large number of Wehrmacht divisions against the Baltic Sea.

In the south, the Ukrainian capital of Kiev is liberated. In the Zhitomir-Vinnitsa sector, Hungarian divisions are fleeing westwards. South of Vinnitsa, there is little resistance as Red Army units reach the outskirts of Odessa.

Maxsim Purkaev, Commander of the Belorussian Front has been promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union.

T-34/85 tank production begins this month.

Into East Prussia



Southern Ukraine

Black & White? How Spielberg! [:D]

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

WEEK 133 - 12/30/43

In administrative matters, one rather pugnacious army commander has been pestering Marshal Zhukov for weeks to be a reassigned to another command. He finally gets his wish and is transferred to the Belorussian Front.

Pugnacious - I take offense to that remark. I think you intended to say "charismatic, dashing, and brilliant"! And don't forget handsome....[:D]

WEEKS 139 and 140 - 2/10/44 to 2/17/44

The drive to the Gulf of Riga and the Bay of Danzig continues. 3rd Guards Tank Army and other mobile formations are now 30 miles from Tilsit, the last remaining German rail link to the north.

Units of the Leningrad Front are fast approaching the Volkhov and continue to encounter no opposition.

In the south, the Red Army is over the Dnestr and Odessa is all but surrounded.

Bay of Danzig




Southwest Ukraine

WEEKS 141 AND 142 - 2/24/44 to 3/2/44


The Red Army closes on Leningrad and has reached the Baltic Sea. The Germans evacuated all but one division between Riga and Memel. In the south, the troops advance towards the Rumanian border.

Leningrad



Riga



Koenigsberg



Southern Ops

WEEKS 143 to 146 - 3/9/44 to 3/30/44

For several weeks rain has brought operations in the Koenigsberg region to a halt. Tank formations were strengthened during the break. Steady progress was made in the south. In the last week, snow arrived. Soviet mechanized formations have now begun pushing on towards the Vistula while rifle and mountain units move into Rumania.

Wow nice job.

From thinking about throwing in the towel to crushing your enemy.

Who was it that thought you were done and had little chance?

WEEK 147 to 148 - 4/6/44 to 4/13/44

Our forces continue to close up on the enemy outside Leningrad.

The Red Army advances to the gates of Warsaw. The Polish Home Army crosses the border to return to their homeland.

In foreign affairs, Rumania has left the Axis and joined the Soviet Union against their former allies. Fyodor Tolbukhin's North Caucasus Front advances west through what is now friendly territory.

OOB



The Front Rolls West



Lvov Sector



Rumania

WEEKS 149 to 152 - 4/20/44 to 5/11/44

Continuous rains broke long enough in May for a concentrated push towards the Vistula. A number of German panzer and panzergrenadier divisions faced the prospects of being surrounded.

Pavel Rotmistrov's 1st Guards Tank Army in combination with other Red Army units drove around the flanks of 10th SS Panzer Division with two infantry divisions, pocketing them.

South of Warsaw, the Vistula was crossed. Meanwhile Markian Popov's 3rd Shock Army along with Issa Pliev's 57th Army (tank/cavalry corps) prepared for mobile operations in the vicinity of Krakow.

Mud struck in the 153rd Week of the campaign.

Then this message came from Farfarer:

The Mud came back everywhere. Although I displaced a Mech div and moved everyone out near Koenisgberg, I noticed that 10th SS is surrounded, whith no hope of relief due to Mud. It is scheduled to withdraw, so it will mandatorily rebuild, taking my next 10 turns of Infantry an Armour production with it as I can't "turn it off" like a normal replacement. The manadatory withdrawals have to coddled or they will take away all the repalcement.

Time to surrender! Thanks for the game.

So the thread is now open to Farfarer. My thanks to him for the game and encouraging me to continue playing, even if it was for only half a day when I thought I was done with it. [:)]