Fire In the East scenario

[SMK-at-work]

I hope you give the proper credit for the map design!

[Grymme]

SMK. I used parts of the TOAWIII-FITE scenario as an overlay for my map if that is what you mean (also for disposition of ground forces and reinforcements). They in turn based their map on another scenario from TOAW, the Drang Nach Osten. Who probably used the map from the Boardgame with the same name if i am not mistaken. Since i even named my scenario the same way as the TOAW scenario i can hardly be accused of covering this up, yet that seem to be what you are implying. But to answer your question. Yes there is already a credit section in the Briefing and yes the TOAWIII-FITE scenario is there. 
 
Arditi. I pretty much have my hands full at the moment. I probably have ca 3 months to go on this one. But i have uploaded the map to my website so that you or anyone else can download it and create what scenarios they want. 

[CSO_Talorgan]

ORIGINAL: Grymme

partisans sometimes become a tedious part of playing. They appear and get killed, appear and get killed.

Well, I'm going to stand up for those partisans!

AS far as I'm concerned, they are the centre of the game!

[:D]

In TOAW partisans don't cause a change of hex ownership, so's not to give away their position. Presumably there are no such luxuries in AT?

[CSO_Talorgan]

ORIGINAL: ehzorg

Partisans should not be limited by the same supply constraints that regular army is.

Correct! In fact it's an open question whether they should have to worry about supply at all.

... but the really interesting question is whether they should be allowed to hide, since surely that is one of the essences of guerilla warfare, and what method you use within Advanced Tactics to simulate that.

[Grymme]

CSO_Tal... They do have a high hidevalue, but since they appear in enemy territory you will always get a hint regarding where they appear. So i do not have any better sollution than the standard one in AT scenarios here.

I am working unsteadily at this project. But it will most likely ready somewhere around when AT-gold is released.

Here is the current briefing.

[font="times new roman"]Briefing[/font][/b]

[font="times new roman"]CONTENT[/font]

[font="times new roman"]1. Background[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1.1 Selected Sources[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2. Scale[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3. Rule Changes[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3.1 Weather[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3.1.1. Limited Air Operations[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4. Research & Production[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5. Terrain & Locations[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6. Unit types[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7. Peoples[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7.1 Promoting units to Guard status[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7.2 Forming an SS unit[/font]
[font="times new roman"]8. Events[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9. Scenario variants & Victory Conditions[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10. Order of Battle[/font]
[font="times new roman"]11. Reinforcement Lists[/font]

[font="times new roman"]1                    BACKGROUND[/font][/b]

[font="times new roman"]On the 22 of june 1941 the Axis powers led by Germany attacked the Soviet Union. More than 4,5 million troops participated in the invasion over a 2 900 km front. The germans who had still not put their industry or country on a proper war footing was counting on the sucess of previous campaigns for a quick and decisive resolution to the campaign.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The Soviet Union had watched the relations with Germany decline fast. Still Stalin would not believe that Germany would attack. Consequently the Red Army, Airforce and Navy were unprepared for the attack. The Red army was in the midst of a major reorganization and were woefully unprepared for fighting a major campaign.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]This scenario simulates the campaign on the eastern front from june 1941 to 1944.  [/font]


[font="times new roman"]1.1 SELECTED SOURCES[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Germany and the Second World War – Vol IV[/font]
[font="times new roman"]When Titans Clashed - Ericksson[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Nafziger – Soviet order of battle –vol I . The deadly beginning (for SU tank strenghts) [/font]
[font="times new roman"]WWW.orbat.com[/font][font="times new roman"] (Soviet Union Black Sea Fleet and VVS strength)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]www.niehorster.orbat.com[/font][font="times new roman"] (SU air disposition& strength, artillery disposition among other things,)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]www.bayonetstrength.com[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Fire in the east Scenario for TOAWIII (map overlay, reinforcements, most of ground forces disposition)[/font]


[font="times new roman"]2                    SCALE[/font][/b]

[font="times new roman"]Each hex is 10km. Each round is 4 days. The grand campaign starts on the 22nd june 1941.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]One SFT represents[/font]

[font="times new roman"]1 Battleships, Heavy and Light Cruisers[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2 Destroyers[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4-5 Submarines, Cargoships or Auxilliary Ships[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9-12 Armoured Fighting Vehicles, Airplanes[/font]
[font="times new roman"]12-24 Artillery, Antitank Guns, Infantry Guns or Antiaircraft Guns[/font]
[font="times new roman"]100-200 Infantry & Cavalry [/font]
[font="times new roman"]Trucks, halftracks, wagons, trains etc varies to much depending on the vehicle used.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]DESIGNERS NOTE: Heavy infantry units generally have approximatly the same number of manpower but not every man had a heavy weapon (for example a german machinegun company had 203 men compared to 191 in a rifle company)[/font]


[font="times new roman"]3                    RULE CHANGES[/font][/b]

[font="times new roman"]Engineers can save EP for 10 rounds.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Maximum experience gained per round is 4. A unit can maximum gain 30 experience without combat.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Air movement cost is reduced by 50%.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]3.1 Weather[/font]

[font="times new roman"]There is clear weather, mud, winter and severe winter.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Clear weather has no effects.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Mud weather give most units very severe movement penalties (most movement types move at 300 % cost). All units have a 20 % readiness reduction. Offensive action is penalized with a [/font]
[font="times new roman"]-40 % modifier for both sides.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Winter weather has some movement penalties (most units move at 150 % movement cost). A A risk of readiness penalties for units from most peoples. Offensive action is penalized with a -50 % modifier for the axis side and a -10 % modifier for the soviet side. Ski units move faster.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Severe winter weather has some harsh movement penalties (most unis move at 200 % movement cost). There is a big chance of large readiness penalties for units from most peoples. Axis side is penalized with a -75% in offensive actions and the soviet side with a -20% modifyer. Ski units move faster.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]See also frostbite event.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]3.1.1 Limited air operations[/font]

[font="times new roman"]During clear weather there is a 16% chance that air operations will be impossible. In muddy weather there is a 55% chance that air operations will be impossible. The chances of air operations being impassible are 40% in winter weather and 50 % in severe winter weather.[/font]



[font="times new roman"]285286                                        [/b]RESEARCH & PRODUCTION[/b][/font]

[font="times new roman"]The following research branches exist[/font]

[font="times new roman"](95-98) Infantry 41,42,43,44[/font]
[font="times new roman"](99-100)Light Infantry 41,43[/font]
[font="times new roman"](101-104)Antitank Guns 41,42,43,44[/font]
[font="times new roman"](105-108)Tanks 41,42,43,44[/font]
[font="times new roman"](91-94)Self propellered guns & Artillery 41,42,43,44[/font]
[font="times new roman"](109-112)AFVs 41,42,43,44[/font]

[font="times new roman"]At the start of each year the researches of that year will become available to research (if you have researched the previous years research of that branch). Each branch will initially cost 100PP to research. The cost of researching will become lower by 2 for each round (but can never go below 2). For each front that is asleep the research will go down another 1 per round.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Production rises in 1942, 1943 & 1944.[/font]
[/b]
[font="times new roman"]UNITS[/font]


[font="times new roman"]5                    TERRAIN & LOCATIONS[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Plains
Sea
Light forrest
Heavy forrest
Swamp
Hilly
Mountains
High Mountains 
Fortifications
Fortress
Coastal Water
Sand [/font]
[font="times new roman"]Marine infantry fight with +25%[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Cultivated[/font]
Partisans fight with +25%
Impassable
Arid
Artic

Road
Improved Road
Railroad

River
Large River
Super River
Canal.
[font="times new roman"]5                    Locations[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Oilfield[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Oilfields produce supply. The main difference between oilfields and other supply resources are that they have very low structural points and recovery points making them vulnerable to strategic bombing. Also Oilfields cannot be evacuated.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]6                    Unit Types[/font]

[font="times new roman"]In this scenario wagons, horses and trucks do not produce LANDCAP. Only Trains produce RAILCAP. A train produces 10 000 RAILCAP which can travel for 2000 APs.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Auxilliary Ships[/font]
[font="times new roman"]The only ships that can lay minefields[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Minefields[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Only produced by actioncards[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Obsolete Soviet AFV:s & planes[/font]
[font="times new roman"]To simulate that some soviet AFVs & planes are obsolete certain SFTs gain a permanent 2% reduction in readiness for each 100 AP:s spent (1% for 50 AP:s spent).[/font]
[font="times new roman"]These SFTs are[/font]
[font="times new roman"]T-26[/font]
[font="times new roman"]T-28[/font]
[font="times new roman"]T-35[/font]
[font="times new roman"]I-15[/font]
[font="times new roman"]I-16[/font]
 
[font="times new roman"]DESIGNERS NOTE: At the start of the war the Soviet Union used a lot of obsolete tanks and planes. The Red Army had already started replacing these with more modern equipment and the equipment was in a deplorable state.[/font]


[font="times new roman"]7                    PEOPLES[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The following people or peoplesettings exist in the scenario.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]                                                                 Morale           Fight             Production for GE/SU[/font]

[font="times new roman"]German[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Germans (grey)                                         70                  1
SS (black)                                                 90                  1.1[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Luftwaffe (light blue)                              60                  1[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Rowehl (Dark Blue/purple)                      60                  1[/font]

Axis minor
[font="times new roman"]Finns (dark blue) **                                 80                  1*                                        1*
Hungarians (dark blue)                             50                  0.95*                                   0.95*
Romanians (pink)                                     50                  0.95*                                   0.95*
Croatians (yellow)                                    50                  1
Slovakians (dark brown)                          50                  1
Italians (light green)                                 50                  1
Spaniards                                                  60                  1[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Soviet Union[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Soviet Union (red/pink)                           60                  1                                          0.25/1
NKVD (brown)                                        90                  1                                          0/1
Guards (orange)                                       70                  1.05[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Siberians (blue) **                                    60                  1
Estonians (dark green)                             50                  1                                          0,5/0.05*
Latvians (dark green)                               50                  1                                          0,5/0.05*
Lithouanians (dark green)                        50                  1                                          0,5/0.05*
Ukrainians                                                50                  1                                          0,5/0.05*[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Allied[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Lend Lease (LL) (green)                          60                  1                                          -[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Poles                                                         50                  1[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Norwegians                                              50                  1                                          -[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Greek                                                        50                  1                                          -[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Other[/font]
[font="times new roman"]FARR                                                       50                  1
Turks (olive green)                                   50                  1[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Persians (purple)                                       50                  1[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Mines (no colour)                                     50                  1[/font]

[font="times new roman"]* A function of the political system and relations between the axis and that people.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]** Readiness not affected at all by winter or severe weather.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]DESIGNER NOTE: Rowehl exist as a people for gametechnical issues only. They are there to represent pre war reconnoisance flights into the Soviet Union.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]7.1 Promoting units to Guard Status[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Each round there is a chance that the soviet player (or direction players) will receive the option to upgrade an existing unit to Guard status. The receiving of this option is related to the number of enemies killed.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The Soviet player can promote a unit to Guard status under certain conditions by playing the “award guard status”-actioncard. Selectable units are only those with a maximum of 148 powerpoints (the size of a prewar Rifle Division at full strength). A guard unit has higher morale and fights with a 5% bonus.[/font]


[font="times new roman"]7.2 Forming an SS unit[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Each round there is a chance that the axis player (or different Armygroup commanders) will receive the option to form an SS unit. The chance of an actioncard appearing increases in time.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The axis can form an SS unit by playing the “Form an SS unit”- actioncard thereby converting an existing unit to SS status.  Selectable units are units with a maximum of 257 powerpoints. The actioncard only affects german people in the unit (not Luftwaffe). The SS have higher morale and fight with a 10% bonus. [/font]

[font="times new roman"]8                    EVENTS[/font]
 
[font="times new roman"]Initial troop conditions[/font]
[font="times new roman"]The attack on the Soviet Union on the 22nd June 1941 caught soviet troops unprepared and confused.  To reflect this all soviet units suffer a 100 % readiness reduction on round 1.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Also axis minor units were not all ready for war. To reflect this Finnish and Romanian units suffer a 40% readiness reduction. Slovakian and Hungarian units suffer a 60 % reduction.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]For the first 4 rounds Luftwaffe units fight with a 300 % bonus. [/font]

[font="times new roman"]Actioncards[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Actioncards come in four different categories [/font]
[font="times new roman"]Diplomatic (blue)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Strategic (yellow)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Units/reinforcements (red)[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Political system[/font]
[font="times new roman"]The axis side have measurable relations with the following minor powers/peoples; Finland, Romania, Hungary, Baltic states, Ukraine (and Turkey). Should during a round the units of Hungaria, Romania or Finland suffer high casualties this will result in a decrease in morale and production for that people. [/font]

[font="times new roman"]The axis side can improve the relations with either people by expending political capital (PPs). Improving the relationship between a minor and Germany improves both morale and productioncapability if that people belong to a power allied to the axis. If the relationship goes bad so does morale and production. The relationship cannot be improved beyond 125 %. (x for baltic and ukraine)[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Should units from either of these peoples (with some exceptions) suffer higher than normal losses during any single turn relations between the respective minor and Germany will suffer.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The axis player should keep a tight track of his relations with some of his allies; Romania, Hungary and Finland. Should their relationship with Germany deterioate to much there is a risk of political turmoil in the country with grave consequenses for their contribution to the war effort. Finland is the most steadfast ally (50). Hungary (60) is slightly less reliable and Romania (75) the least reliable.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The axis can pressure Turkey into joining them in the crusade against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union can use political pressure to try and influence Turkey to stay out of the war. The most decisive factor though is the amount of troops that the Soviet Union keep in the Transcaucasus area (only Soviet proper). The less troops the Soviet Union garrison the area with the higher the chances that Turkey will enter the war.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]NOTE: A high or low relationship with a minor can also have other effects regarding the likelyhood and effect of certain undocumented (secret events). So keep a good relationship with the Axis minors.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]DESIGNERS NOTE: Slovakia, Croatia,  Spain, Italy and other allies of Germany were either totally under controll by the germans or not at all. For this reason their contribution will not be modelled in the political model (also for practical reasons). [/font]


[font="times new roman"]Rowehl Geschwader pre-war flights[/font]
[font="times new roman"]At the start of the game AG Nord gets 4, AG Mitte gets 4 and AH Sud gets 2 units of FW recconnoisance air. These are withdrawn at the start of round 2.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]DESIGNERS NOTE: These units represent pre war reconnoisance by the german Luftwaffe and Abwehr.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Polish rifle Corps [/font]
[font="times new roman"]The Soviet Union (Western Direction) has the option of a one time event of recruiting a polish rifle corps with a HQ, three rifle divisions and an artillery regiment. They will appear in Moscow. The cost for recruiting this corps is changed each turn and is the number of Soviet Victory points/8 (Western Direction VP/8).[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Arctic Lend Lease[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Each round there is a small chance (4%) of a Lend Lease Convoy appearing in the north with reinforcements of aircraft, trucksm halftracks and tanks. They will appear in Murmansk. Should Murmansk be axis controlled they will instead appear in Archangelsk[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The following convoy modifiers in apply (in percent).[/font]
[font="times new roman"]+1 From 1942 and onward. [/font]
[font="times new roman"]+1 If both Petsamo and Kirkenes are controlled by the Soviet Union.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]-1 If Murmansk is axiscontrolled (this also causes the lend lease to be rerouted to Archangelsk)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]-1 If the axis manages to keep 120 powerpoints in the Barents Sea.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]If Soviet VPs go to low (less than 450/120) the convoys become larger to reflect increased allied support.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Lend Lease through Siberia[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Each round there is a small chance (2%) of a Lend Lease Convoy appearing in the Urals with reinforcements of aircraft, trucks, halftracks and tanks. They will appear in the Urals. [/font]

[font="times new roman"]The following convoy modifiers in apply (in percent).[/font]
[font="times new roman"]+1 From 1942 and onward. [/font]

[font="times new roman"]If Soviet VPs go to low (less than 450/120) the convoys become larger to reflect increased allied support.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Lend Lease through the middle east[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Each round there is a small chance (3%) of a Lend Lease Convoy appearing in the south with reinforcements of aircraft, trucks, halftracks and tanks. They will appear in Yerevan. Should Yerevan be axis controlled they will instead appear in Baku. [/font]

[font="times new roman"]The following convoy modifiers in apply (in percent).[/font]
[font="times new roman"]+2 If both Persian cities are soviet occupied.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]+1 From 1942 and onward. [/font]
[font="times new roman"]-1 If Yerevan is axis controlled (this also causes the lend lease to be rerouted to Baku).[/font]
[font="times new roman"]-1 If Erzurum (turkish city) is axis controlled.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]-2 if Soviet forces in Transcaucasus (only soviet proper) is less than 2 000 powerpoints).[/font]
 
[font="times new roman"]Minefields[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Both sides can lay minefields in the Baltic, Black Sea or Barents Sea. You lay a minefield by playing the actioncard and choosing a hex. For a minefield to be placed the in hex you choose it has to contain at least one Auxilliary Ship SFT. If it doesnt then playing the card will have no effect (but you get the card back). If the hex does have auxulliary ships present then the chance of sucessfully laying an effective minefield is 25% per auxilliary ship present. So there need to be at least four ships present to guarantee a 99% sucessrate. If you are trying to lay a minefield at deep sea water chances of success is reduced by 25 %.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]A minefield fights with the strenght of a battleship, but is static and cannot be transported. It has a high hidevalue and ambushes enemy ships that enter the hex. It fights at -25% in deep sea.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Factory Evacuations[/font]
[font="times new roman"]The Soviet Union can evacuate the factories of certain locations and rebuild them in the Urals. By playing the actioncard the SU player creates a number of evacuee trains equal to the structural points/1000 of the location chosen (so a 10 000 production location would generate 10 trains if undamaged, but only 8 trains if it had only 8 000 structural points left). After the factories are evacuated the location changes to an abandoned city with much less production value and which can only produce supply.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Oil and other natural resources cannot be evacuated.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The trains then have to be moved to the Urals area like any other SFT. When there the SU player can place a factory by playing the card and selecting any hex that has 4 trains or more. This will place a 4K factory there and remove four trains from the hex. The newly built factory will have almost no structural points so it will have to be rebuilt by engineers or autorecovery. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] [/font]
[font="times new roman"]Use of captured AFV:s[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Each side keeps track of the number enemy Armoured Fighting Vehicles that have been destroyed by that regime. After enough of them have been destroyed (more than 150) there is a random time delay and then a number of enemy equipment arrives repaired and refitted for use by the own regime. The refitted AFVs arrive in the HQ closest to Berlin (Konigsberg, Berlin & Vienna) for the Axis and Gorkiy (Vologda, Gorkiy and Astrakhan) for the Soviet Union. The number of AFS refitted is related to the number of AFV:s destroyed and the type is dependant of the year.[/font]


[font="times new roman"]Norwegian partisans[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Norwegian partisans affect relations with Finland[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Freiwillige[/font]
[font="times new roman"]HMS Royal Sovereign[/font]
[font="times new roman"]LL Cruiser[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Romanian Rifle Divisions[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Mussolini donates ships.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Access to Swedish railways[/font]



[font="times new roman"]Cossack Recruitment Rostov/Voroshilovgrad/Krasnodar[/font]
[font="times new roman"]If the axis player controls the cities mentioned above he will get a small detachment of cossacks recruits each turn. These will appear in the HQ closest to each respective city.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Increasing production[/font]
[font="times new roman"]In production goes up by[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Year/Side[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1942              Axis 120% SU 135%[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1943              Axis 135% SU 150%[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1944[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Baltic Uprising[/font]
[font="times new roman"]For the first four turns of the game there is a large chance of baltic partisans appear in the baltic countries. These partisans are controlled by the axis side. They are rising up to expell the Soviet Union and greet the germans as liberators.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]After the four first rounds there is still a chance for Baltic partisans to appear, but it is much smaller.[/font]


[font="times new roman"]9                    SCENARIO VARIANTS & VICTORY CONDITIONS[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Grand Campaign[/font]
[font="times new roman"]This is the default setting. Play as long as you like. When you end you will know who the victor is.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Northern/Central/Southern/Finnish Front asleep[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Checking either of these variants sets the selected regime/front/area asleep.[/font]
 
[font="times new roman"]Soviet/Axis Advantage[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Choosing either of these options gives the Axis/SU side 15PP/round. If playing with separate fronts then each active front gets 5PPs.[/font]
 
[font="times new roman"]Barbarossa (1941)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]This is a short campaign variant. Using this option gives a check for victory at the beginning of March 1942. If the Soviet Union has less than 350 VPs at that time this means an Axis victory. If the Soviet Union has more VPs then  it is an Soviet Union Victory. The amount of VPs required for a Soviet Union victory is subtracted with 116 VPs per front asleep.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Railroad Conversions (scenario variant)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Axis trains, armored trains and railroad artillery travel on European railroads (1,432mm gauge) while soviet trains, evacuated trains & armored trains travel on soviet railroads (1,520mm gauge). This means that RAILCAP & movement can only take place using railroadhexes of your own gauge.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Either side can convert existing railroad hexes to their own gauge by using the appropriate action card which cost 2PP to play. This is the only way to build railroads in the game and it only works on existing railroadhexes of the other type. For a hex to be eligible to conversion it need to be owned by the own power and contain a Regiment of Railroad Engineers or more (8 SFTs of Railroad Engineers or more).[/font]

[font="times new roman"]DESIGNERS NOTE: Yes i know Finland used a different rail gauge than the rest of the Western Europe. This i have purposely ignored.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Prepared Defenses[/font]
[font="times new roman"]If this variant is chosen then the Soviet Union will not suffer any readiness loss on round 1 and the Luftwaffe will not receive any combat bonus.[/font]









[font="times new roman"]OOB Soviet Union[/font][/b]

[font="times new roman"]North Western Direction HQ (Leningrad)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Northern Front HQ (Petrozavodsk)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            14th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]23rd Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Northwestern Front HQ (Leningrad)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            1st Mechanized Corps HQ (1st Tank Division detached) (110)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                                  1st Tnk (detached)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                                  3rd Tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                                  163rd Mzh[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10th Mechanized Corps HQ (84)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                                  24th Tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                                  21st Tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                                  198th Mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            Baltic Fleet HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Baltic Front HQ (Riga)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            8th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            11th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]27th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]12th Mechanized Corps HQ (79)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             28th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             23rd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             220th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            3rd Mechanized Corps HQ (64)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             2nd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             5th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             84th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5th Airborne Corps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Archangelsk Military District HQ (Vologda)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            North Sea Red Fleet HQ[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Western Direction HQ (Moscow)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Western Front HQ (Minsk)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            13th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3rd Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]22nd Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]11th Mechanized Corps HQ (24)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 29th tnk          [/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 33rd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 204th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6th Mechanized Corps HQ  (102)             [/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 7th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 4th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 29th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]13th Mechanized Corps HQ (30)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 25th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 31st[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 208th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]14th Mechanized Corps HQ (52)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 22nd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 30th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 205th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]17th Mechanized Corps HQ (4)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 27th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 36th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 209th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            20th Mechanized Corps HQ (10)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             26th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             38th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             210th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4th Airborne Corps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Orel Front HQ (Orel)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      21st Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]23rd Mechanized Corps HQ (42)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 48th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 51st tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 220th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5th Mechanized Corps HQ (107)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 13th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 17th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 109th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Moscow Front HQ (Moscow)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            20th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]24th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            7th Mechanized Corps HQ (102)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             14th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             18th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             1st mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            21st Mechanized Corps HQ (10)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             42nd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             46th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             185th mhz[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Southwestern Direction HQ (Kharkov)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Southwestern Front HQ (Kiev)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]26th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]12th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]19th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]8th Mechanized Corps HQ (86)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 12th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 34th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 7th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]15th Mechanized Corps HQ (74)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 10th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 37th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 212th   mhz [/font]
[font="times new roman"]4th Mechanized Corps HQ (90)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 8th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 32nd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 81st mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]16th Mechanized Corps HQ (61)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 15th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 39th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 240th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]24th Mechanized Corps HQ (22)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 45th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 49th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 216th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9th Mechanized Corps HQ (26)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 35th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 20th tnk [/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 131st mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]19th Mechanized Corps HQ (45)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 40th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 43rd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 219th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]22nd Mechanized Corps HQ(71)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 19th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 41st tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 215th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Stalin Line HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            1st Airborne Corps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Southern Front HQ (Odessa)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            9th Separate Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]18th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            2nd Mechanized Corps HQ (49)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             2nd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             11th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                                             15th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]18th Mechanized Corps HQ (28)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 44th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 47th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 218th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5th Airborne Corps HQ       [/font]
[font="times new roman"]Black Sea Fleet HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Kharkov Front HQ (Kharkov)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      25th Mechanized Corps HQ (30)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                       50th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                       55th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                       219th mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]North Caucasus Front HQ (Cherkessy)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      37th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]44th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]26th Mechanized Corps HQ (19)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 52nd tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 56th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                 103rd Mhz[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Stalingrad Front HQ (Stalingrad)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Transcaucasus Front HQ (Tblisi)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      45th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]47th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]46th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      28th Mechanized Corps HQ (87)[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                       6th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                       54th tnk[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                                                                       236th mhz      [/font]

[font="times new roman"]                                                                 For a total of 1 510 tank sfts[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            [/font]
[font="times new roman"]OOB Axis[/font][/b]

[font="times new roman"]Armeegruppe Nord HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      18th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXVI Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            I Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXVIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      4th Panzergruppe HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            LVI Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXI Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      16th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            X Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXVIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            II Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      RHG Area 101[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Baltic Naval group Nord HQ[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Army of Norway HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      HQ Finland[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XIX Gebirgsjäger Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXVI Gebirgsjäger Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Finnish Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      II Corps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      IV Corps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      VI Corps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      VII Corps HQ[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Armeegruppe Mitte HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]LIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      9th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]VIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]XX Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            LXII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      3rd Panzergruppe HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXIX Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            V Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            VI Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            LVII Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      4th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            VII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            IX Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXXIII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      2nd Panzergruppe HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXXVII Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXIV Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            XXXXVI Mot Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      RHG Area 102[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                       [/font]

[font="times new roman"]Armeegruppe Sud HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Armygroup Antonescu HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            3rd Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            4th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                                            1st Reserve Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]11th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      LIV Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XXX Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XI Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]17th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      LII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XXXXIX Gebirgsjäger Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      IV Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1st Panzergruppe HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XIV Motorisierte Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XXXXVII Motorisierte Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XXIX Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      III Motorisierte Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XXXXIV Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      XVII Korps HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Hungarian Royal Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Carpathian Army Group HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Slovak Expeditionary Group HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]C.S.I.R HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]RHG Area 102[/font]


[font="times new roman"]Reinforcement Lists[/font][/b]


[font="times new roman"]AG NORD[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Unit appears in Königsberg unless otherwise specified.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Round [/font]
[font="times new roman"]2                    4th SS Polizie Division, [/font]
[font="times new roman"]15th Infanterie Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]4                    260th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]163rd Infanterie Division, arrive in  Oulo.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]98th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4th Gebirgsjäger Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]5                    1/2/3rd KG28[/font]

[font="times new roman"]7                    1/2/3rd KG100[/font]

[font="times new roman"]12                  113th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Admiral Scheer[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Köln[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Nurnberg[/font]


[font="times new roman"]AG MITTE[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Unit appears in Berlin unless otherwise specified.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Round[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2                    52nd Infanterie Division, arrive in Warsaw[/font]

[font="times new roman"]3                    Second Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]SS-Brigade 1 Reichsführer-SS [/font]
[font="times new roman"]581st Fieldgendarmerie Battalion[/font]

[font="times new roman"]4                    197th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]132nd Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]110th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]193rd Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]93rd Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]106th Infanterie Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]6                    7/8/9th KG26, arrive in Warsaw[/font]

[font="times new roman"]8                    86th Infanterie Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]12                  5th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]685th Pioneer Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]79th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]94th Infanterie Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]AG SUD[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Unit appears in Bucharest unless otherwise specified[/font]

[font="times new roman"]4                    427/430/436th Artillery Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]46th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]294th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]125th Infanterie Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]690th Pioneer Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]617th Pioneer Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]60th Panzergrenadier Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]14th Bautruppe[/font]
[font="times new roman"]19th Bautruppe[/font]
[font="times new roman"]                      Pasubio Division, arrive in Trieste.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Torino Division, arrive in Trieste.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]2585[font="times new roman"]2586                                    Gruppo22, arrive in Trieste.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]2593[/font]2594                                    7th Flieger Division, arrive in Thessaloniki[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2nd Mountain Brigade arrive in Budapest[/font]


[font="times new roman"]NORTHWESTERN DIRECTION[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Unit appears in Vologda unless otherwise specified[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Round[/font][/b]
[font="times new roman"]2[/font]
[font="times new roman"]14th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]65th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]59th  Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]34th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]52nd  Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]55th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]54th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]246th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]21st Motorized NKVD Rifle Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]3[/font]
[font="times new roman"]243rd Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]242nd Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]69th Motorized Rifle Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]4[/font]
[font="times new roman"]48th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]298th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]285th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1st Leningrad Militia Division, arrive in Leningrad[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2nd Leningrad Militia Division, arrive in Leningrad[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3rd Leningrad Militia Division, arrive in Leningrad[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4th Leningrad Militia Division, arrive in Leningrad[/font]

[font="times new roman"]5[/font]
[font="times new roman"]49th Cavalry Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]WESTERN DIRECTION[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Unit appears in Penza unless otherwise specified[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Round[/font][/b]
[font="times new roman"]2[/font]
[font="times new roman"]31st Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]38th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]39th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]64th  Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]49th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]57nd  Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]43th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]48th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]50th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]244th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]266th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]265th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]247th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]251st Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]262nd Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]248th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]256th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]254th Rifle Divison[/font]
[font="times new roman"]245th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]252nd Rifle Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]3[/font]
[font="times new roman"]105th Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]107th Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]109th Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2nd Moscow Milita Division, arrive in Moscow.[/font]
[font="times new roman"]1st Moscow Militia Division, arrive in Moscow.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]4[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Bryansk Front HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]32nd Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]50th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]29th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]30th Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]101st Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]104th Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]108th Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]110th Tank Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]107th Mechanized Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Flerov Katuysha Artillery Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]194th Mountain Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]392nd Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]250th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]280th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]279th Rifle Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]260th Rifle Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]The following units arrive in Moscow.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]4th Moscow Milita Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5th Moscow Militia Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6th Moscow Militia Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7th Moscow Militia Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]5[/font]
[font="times new roman"]33rd Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]45th Cavalry Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]211th Rifle Division[/font]


[font="times new roman"]The following units arrive in Moscow.[/font]

[font="times new roman"]21st Moscow Milita Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]11th Moscow Militia Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]13th Moscow Militia Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]17th Moscow Militia Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]18th Moscow Militia Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]SOUTHWESTERN DIRECTION[/font]
[font="times new roman"]Unit appears in Engels unless otherwise specified[/font]

[font="times new roman"]Round[/font][/b]
[font="times new roman"]2[/font]
[font="times new roman"]66th Recon regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]61st Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]40th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]51st Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]56th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]44th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]46th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]47th Recon Regiment[/font]
[font="times new roman"]57th Tank Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]3[/font]
[font="times new roman"]221st Motorized Rifle Division[/font]

[font="times new roman"]5[/font]
[font="times new roman"]51st Army HQ[/font]
[font="times new roman"]53rd Cavalry Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]43rd Cavalry Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]44th Cavalry Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]46th Cavalry Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]47th Cavalry Division[/font]
[font="times new roman"]50th Cavalry Division[/font]

[Widell]

Grymme - Outstanding work as usual! An idea reg Partisans, maybe it's not possible to implement, but I might as well put it on the table: Partisan units appear randomly right? They consume no supply which is OK, so they can stick around for ever. Is it possible to have them disappear randomly as well? My thought was that a unit appears and plays havoc behind the German lines for a couple of rounds and is then either destroyed or simply disappear again. Maybe not perfect, but it would be a way to simulate 1) the randomness of the partisan operations both for the Germans and the Soviets as well as the ability to hide and "sleep" that was discussed above.

[Grymme]

Widelll: Hmmm... i think this is possible to do. But to be honest i dont think it would be better than the current system.
 
I am using this thread as a sort of development diary, so this will be som random ramblings.
 
What have i done on the scenario lately
- Worked on reinforcement lists i am on round 24 (SU) and 23 (GE).
- Implemented an Italian withdrawal event in 1943.
- Fixed most buildable locations.
- Adapted Arctic Lend lease so that some lend lease will arrive even if Murmansk is not active because Finnish front is sleeping.
- Coded the Frostbite event (although i havent tested it) so that the axis (not finns) get a readiness reduction the first time winter strikes because of being unprepared.
- Coded a very rough AI for both sides.
- Worked a lot on the Briefing.
- Added a small event that checks each side for VPs and gives each side a number of supplies * VPs (15 for axis and 25 for SU) each round. I think this will greatly add to the scenario because all cities that have their name on the map is worth at least 1VP. This will mean that practicly all territory is somewhat worth fighting for. If the Soviets give up every territory to easily in 1941 this will mean that they loose some production and the germans gain some. Its not a lot, but it adds up.
- Made a small but important map correction.
- Made german baltic auxillliary fleet historical.
- Probably a lot of other things i have forgotten.
 
 
Most of the programming of the scenario in ATG is finished and i am now playtesting it for the first time against a human. So far it seems balanced. We are only playing AG-nord/NW-direction without the finnish front.
 
I am playing the soviets and will most likely loose Kaunas the next round (round 4).
 
The main things left to do are
- Bughunting
- Reinforcement lists
- Finnish demarkation line event (havent figured out how to do this in a good way).
- Some way to include Bulgarians.
- Late war research (especially for aircraft and to include the Panzerschreck).
- AI programming (have done some).
- Get AI railroad conversion event working if possible.
- There is an Issue with the formation of SS units event.
- AG Sud currently has no way of building Aircraft.
- Scenario balance (this will obviously be a very long process).
 
 
 
 

[CSO_Talorgan]

ORIGINAL: Grymme

CSO_Tal... They do have a high hidevalue, but since they appear in enemy territory you will always get a hint regarding where they appear. So i do not have any better sollution than the standard one in AT scenarios here.

OK

[Grymme]

CSO_talorgan: No probs. Maybe there might be things in ATG that will improve the partisan game. I honestly dont know, there seem to be so much.

- Have worked on bughunting
- Found out a way to make the Finnish demarkation line event. and did it.
- Found that the Panzerfaust and Panzerrschreck were included in the Grenadier 1943 and 44 stats, so thats one of the list.
- Implemented some new graphics that i unfortunatly cannot show of yet. But using some WTP graphics.
- created a location that builds aircraft for AG sud.


Still left to be done

- More bughunting
- Reinforcement lists
- Some way to include Bulgarians.
- Late war research (especially for aircraft and to include the Panzerschreck).
- AI programming (have done some).
- Get AI railroad conversion event working if possible.
- There is an Issue with the formation of SS units event.
- Southwestern Direction cannot build aircraft either.
- Scenario balance (this will obviously be a very long process).


My first human vs human testgame is on round 10 and it is going swimingly. 5-6 minor bugs detected so far. But nothing gamebreaking so i think this game will go on at least until autumn. I am playing as the Soviets and i think the Germans have just captured Riga and broken through my Dvina River defense.


If anyone knows a shortlist of which aircraft was developed after 1941 and used on the Eastern Front and which year they came into use i would be very grateful.
Here are the aircraft currently in the scenario

P-39Q Aircobra
Il-4
SB-2
Yak-4 (R)
Pe-2
Su-2
I-16
MiG-3
I-15
Yak-1
LaGG-3
Me-109F
Me-110
Ju-87B
Do-17
Ju-86
Ju-88
He-111
Ju-52 (T)
Fw-189 (R)
Il-2
Il-2M3
TB-3
G-2 (T)
Fi-156 (R)
R-5 (R)
DB-3
Ju-86 (R)
M.C.200
SM.81
CR-32
CR-42
IAR-80
PZL P.24
JRS.79
PZL P.37
Re.2000
He123
He-111
Hawker Hurricane
Bristol Blenheim
DB-3T (N)
Ju-88A (N)
IL-4T (N)

(N) means a naval equipped version of the Aicraft equipped with torpedos or naval mines.

So any ideas on which more aircraftmodels should be included feel free to post them.

[GrumpyMel]

Grymme,

Not sure if they are worth including but I know the Finn's used some captured P36's and MS406's to good effect. They rigged thier own varients of them as well.

[Grymme]

Grumpy: Any ideas are welcome. P36 and MS??? Do you know the full designations and how many/when they used them.

As of now the finnish airforce ingame includes.

3 hawker hurricane
4 Bristol Blenheim
1 SB-2
1 RE.2000

Each SFT represents 9-12 aircraft.

When i look at this webpage it looks like far too little and not all the correct models so i probably have to look over the finnish airforce (although not all should be present since not all of Finland is on the map).

http://niehorster.orbat.com/024_finland ... rforce.htm

[GrumpyMel]

If you check the Wikipedia pages for those models it should give you info about thier use in Finnish Service.

That's the methodology I used for alot of the info I put together for plane models in ETO.

I also found this site (http://ww2total.com/WW2/History/WW2-History.htm) to be somewhat usefull. Not as detailed as neihorstar but good for getting summaries and it had a few things he didn't.

[Grymme]

Thanks for your suggestion Grumpy.
 
Have gone through the finnish airforce again created SFTs for
 
Fokker D.XXI
Brewster F2A Buffalo (m239)
Morane Saulnier M.S.406
 
and went through the finnish airforces. They are now equipped with
 
1 I-15
7 Fokkers
2 Hawker Hurricane
2 Bristol Blenheum
1 SB-2
3 MS.406
3 Brewster 239
3 CR-42 ( i used this instead of the italian Fiat G-50)
-----
total 22 aircraft.*9-12 for a total of 198-264 aircraft which seems like a very reasonable number.
 
 

[zzmzzm]

Like this Mod, Grymme. I always want a wonderful Mod  of Soviet_German war for a long time.  Maybe this one is.

[Grymme]

Thanks Zzmzzm.

The scenario is almost finished. Although it can always be worked on.

I do have some issues with the mix of historic reinforcements and the players own production. But i am thinking of just letting the historic reinforcements end somewhere around round 40. That would simulate the large soviet mobilization effort and movement of main allied and other axis forces into the Eastern Front. Not only is it a lot of work to implement 200+ rounds of historic reinforcements. But starting with the autumn 1941 there are also a lot of withdrawals that can not be properly simulated.

Anyway tasks left to do
- AI Railroad conversion event.
- Finnish reinforcement list.
- Fix or skip fixing an actioncard called "offensive"
- 5-7 Aircraft SFTs left.
- Newly converted SS units not having SS units and Signia
- Some bugs.
- A couple of graphic border issues

I have been away a while. But one thing i have done is convert the scenario to ATG graphics (mainly)

So here is a couple of new screenshots showing some ATG graphics. It should be noted that some graphics are not ATG (light forrest for example)

AG Nord

[Grymme]

Here is the Leningrad area in zoomed out mode.

Note that this is an axis view so soviet units cannot be seen.

[Grymme]

Also

Here is a picture of the Lvov bulge from the Soviet Union view on round one.

[Josh]

"...But i am thinking of just letting the historic reinforcements end somewhere around round 40...."

I agree with that, because otherwise it would almost be like War in the East, that is all new units are the historical ones. While the fun part of ATG is the production part, enabling a more "what if" gameplay. There have been long discussions in the WitE subforum, production or not, ATG has that already in the game, so best thing is (IMHO) to leave it as it is. Historical setup, player decides production.
Map looks great, and huge!
Are the Nato symbols optional, meaning can one choose the standard AT symbols as well?

[Grymme]

 It is very similar to War in the East.
 
Off course i cannot aspire to the same detail and historical accuracy as WITE. On the other hand there is the production system and a much better GUI (in my opinion).
 
The NATO counters are not optional. But anyone who feels like it can edit in the orginal counters if they choose, but there is 336 SFTs so it would probably take an evening or so to do it.

[Keunert]

hats off! great scenario. my the power be with you to finish this monster.

will it be playable with the old at? or is it atg exclusive?