1.04.10 Fulkerson vs KLilly

[DTurtle]

Two nice pockets in the making: At Leningrad he can drive north to the Finnish border and encircle everything in and around Leningrad. You currently have nothing in his way to stop him.

In the south, he just has to drive 8-9 hexes NNW to where the Oster meets the Desna and stop any of your forces in the Kiev area from leaving before pocketing them the turn after.

[Aussiematto]

YEah, but that german armour over the Dnepr in the south is crying out to be surrounded and destroyed... Soviets definitely have the advantage here, except around moscow.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: DTurtle
Two nice pockets in the making: At Leningrad he can drive north to the Finnish border and encircle everything in and around Leningrad. You currently have nothing in his way to stop him.

In the south, he just has to drive 8-9 hexes NNW to where the Oster meets the Desna and stop any of your forces in the Kiev area from leaving before pocketing them the turn after.

I'm working on withdrawing all those people right now. But thanks.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: majeloz
Yeah, but that german armour over the Dnepr in the south is crying out to be surrounded and destroyed... Soviets definitely have the advantage here, except around moscow.

I would surround and destroy them except that all my divisions are CV=1 so far. I'd have to gang up on them one at a time and do deliberate attacks until I wear 'em down and make 'em surrender. Too much to do and too little time to do it. I'm not sure it would work.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the turn 9 front lines before any Soviet movement:

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Here's the air losses for both sides:

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Here's the destroyed Soviet units as of turn 9:

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Here's the ground losses for both sides:

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Here's the OOB

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Here's the Soviet production figures

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Here's the typical rifle division size in men:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what the Moscow area looks like now. I've cut off his spearhead(s) and isolated them but killing them is another matter. There's no industry in Moscow anymore.......I don't know if Kevin destroyed it be just being adjacent or if I railed it outta there beforehand. Probably the first choise. I donno.

[Klydon]

He has 6 mech units way out on a line there near Moscow. Your industry is still in East Moscow and North Moscow. It just won't let you rail it out while there is a German unit next to you. West Moscow is of course toast.

Need to seriously pull units up from the south and just kick his butt. You got units north of Moscow. Need to shove them in the line and make him work to reconnect those panzers. You keep them cut off at this point and they are not going anyplace and they are going to quickly become trash. If you can get some Red Airforce fighter units in the area as well to help interdict his resupply missions, that is going to help.

I have a feeling he has been looking at your AAR with Pelton and figures he can get away with some of the same stuff based on how he sees you play.

[Q-Ball]

That's tough....did he attack into that Moscow hex, or just drive into it? Even a small Rifle Division is tough to move out of a heavy urban hex.

Amazing progress for 9 turns on your opponent's part....

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball
That's tough....did he attack into that Moscow hex, or just drive into it?

He had to attack into it. I had a checkerboard defense set up and obviously it didn't have much effect on slowing him down all that much. Maybe a carpet would have been better? I don't have all that many units in the Moscow area.....need to rail some more in there.

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Here's the front lines before any Soviet movement:

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Here's the destroyed Soviet units screen:

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Here's the ground losses screen:

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Here's the OOB:

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Here's the production figures: