Barbarosa 41 revised

[larryfulkerson]

So now we're going to do a playtest of the Soviet side of the conflict. The object being to see if the Soviet side can possibly win this
thing. I'm not sure that Elmer will use the RR engineers I've put into the AA and HQ units to repair rail like a human would but we'll see.
This is the opening turn front lines. I predict that the Axis side will push east.

[larryfulkerson]

This combat result isn't typical. Usually the combat is 100% successful from the point of view of the Axis side. The PO spent most of the
first round RBC-ing my units to get into the positions they are in for the first combat phase. These are the positions they obtained in
this part of the front lines.

[larryfulkerson]

As you can see the first time the Soviet player gets a chance to move something there's not a whole lot of stuff to move. Most everything
is in garrison mode and the only thing I needed to do is set everybody to ignore losses and dig them in where they are. I notice that
Elmer didn't push his panzers toward Riga or Daugavpils and that's the first thing I do when playing the Axis side. I'm thinking Elmer isn't
in much of a hurry and if he keeps it up I may have a chance to win this thing.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's turn 2's front lines:

[larryfulkerson]

I'm seeing a lot of unrepaired rail in the Axis areas. I'm guessing Elmer isn't repairing the rails as he goes like I do. I'm guessing the
supply for the Axis is abysmal.

[larryfulkerson]

T3's front lines:

[Josh]

What happened? You're probably busy elsewhere testing things and stuff?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Josh
What happened? You're probably busy elsewhere testing things and stuff?

Steve Sill and I are playtesting his new scenario and Steve made a change to the same so I had to start over and test the change. I'm
already on turn 107 and there's only, like 400 turns so it's going to take some time to get 'er done. But don't lose hope......I've saved the
Soviet side of things in a file and can continue onward w/ this AAR no problem. And anyway, I've got my nerve trying to support two
AAR's at the same time. Yeah, I'm doing an AAR of the playtest so Steve will get all the data he needs to judge the "goodness" of the
scenario. But it's on the development forum so few people can see it. Sorry about that. I'm trying to do the same kind of AAR here for
you guys......it's only fair. I'll stop everything and do a couple of turns of THIS game to keep things going. And by the way, thanks for
keeping up w/ this AAR. I was wondering if anybody was reading this thing.

[fogger]

I log on every day and the first thing I look for is your AAR. Kept up the good work

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: fogger
I log on every day and the first thing I look for is your AAR. Kept up the good work

Well, thank you very much fogger dude for your interest. I'll try to keep this thing moving for you guys.

Here's the front lines at the start of Soviet turn 3:

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Riga situation. As you can see there's a lot of Soviet stuff in garrison mode and it's stuck where it is and I'm handicapped
about what I can do to pull back and make road blocks. All things considered, I'm pretty happy w/ the performance of the Soviet stuff
so far. Most of the time the Axis will just RBC my stacks enough times to evaporate all the units but some of the time the Soviet unit(s)
will stand there and take it w/o retreating. I guess the Axis stuff is getting tired already.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a picture from one of those KeyHole spy satallites of the Minsk area. The Axis is pressing to the east and the Soviets are
running roadblocks westward as the front line approaches Moscow slowly.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a close up of the south area. Elmer doesn't seem to know about the slash and dash of armour versus the slow plodding INF.
I mean he's keeping them together rather than use the advantages of each. I may win this thing yet.

[Oberst_Klink]

'Onkel Larry'; if you want to tweak it further, I might even comntinue to modify my well liked (at least from my Beta-Testers) Ostfront modified .eqp file.

Klink, Oberst

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink
'Onkel Larry'; if you want to tweak it further, I might even continue to modify my well liked (at least from my Beta-Testers) Ostfront modified .eqp file.

Hey there Klink dude. Um......I appreciate the offer but I'm just a beginner scenario designer. I don't have the first clue how to re-do
the OOB to use an equipment file. I have an idea: why don't you do the OOB for this scenario and I'll test it. Sounds like a good idea
to do it anyway, whichever of us does it.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a shot of the Lapland area in T4. So far the 23rd Army is holding it's own against the Finns. I wish I could say the same about
the rest of the Leningrad defense.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines from T5:

[larryfulkerson]

T6's front lines. I'm starting to get organized. Moscow has a really good defensive line so I'm not too worried about Moscow now.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Kiev area in T7:

[tcarusil]

Larry:

I apologize. I have been reading and enjoying your AAR, but have not taken the time to thank you. THANK YOU!

I am sure a lot of work has gone into your reports and my failure to thank you is inexcusable.

I have taken to playing the game as the Axis and while I have advanced close to where you have on each turn, I find that my units are more likely in an orange state of readiness (or rather lack of readiness) much more often than your units. I just can't seem to find enough better prepared units to use. I have tried to keep the rail net up with the front lines and will rest units with their corresponding HQ, but it seems to take quite some time for them to regain readiness.

I will keep plugging away.

Again thanks

TomC