Taking arms against a sea of troubles...(no Mike 29)

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The Center.

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The big picture in the South, with battles marked.

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A closer look.

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Losses and OOB for the end of Turn 41.

[Peltonx]

The lines are not important for him at this stage. Unless he is setting you up for something in June, of which I see two possiblities in the south.

1942 is about pocketing units as the combat ratio blows during 1942 once 1v1=2v1 was removed.

If he cant pocket units every turn to forse you to burn up AP's and keep the ratio above 3 to 1 hes lossing even if he is building up morale and gaining land.
Hes just plain not doing the air war right if hes at 1v1 in losses and probably has not been from the start. My advice to German player follow Katza's tips on the airwar.

Not sure why the guy quit that you took over for, because other then the fact he took some hvyer then normal loses he was in great shape. Mike's forses are not in that great of shape eather for that matter for the spring of 1942.

Game was clearly still in the balance.

Mike needed to get a pocket during the spring to get you off balance some and it does not appear he will be able to.

He needs a pocket withen the first few turns of summer or he will be in trouble and running out of options fast.

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The view of the North.

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A big stretch in the Center.

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The still messy South.

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OOB and losses for Turn 42.

[Harrybanana]

JAMiAM,

I noticed that you had no saved APs and you have now patched to 1.05.59c. How are you handling the decrease in Command Capacity for all your Army HQs? Bad timing that the patch came out for you just after March madness.

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ORIGINAL: Harrybanana

JAMiAM,

I noticed that you had no saved APs and you have now patched to 1.05.59c. How are you handling the decrease in Command Capacity for all your Army HQs? Bad timing that the patch came out for you just after March madness.

I am now patched to 1.05.59c, but this turn was played several days ago, using the .53 patch. I am going to have a tough time with getting my Armies under Command Capacity, and it probably won't be until I get the big dump of APs from Voronezh Front, in June, that everything will finally be straightened out. Fortunately, part of my plan, before the changes instituted in .59c, was to run a leaner Soviet Army, due to the overloading of Stavka. Much of my unit merging, and future buildout plans were predicated on this. Though I no longer need to worry about Stavka overloading, I will now have to worry about the Army overloading. So, what I will probably have to do is to build at least another three or four Combined Arms armies, in order to get everyone under Command Cap, and shunt off the excess to the Military Districts (for training) or to Stavka for general (re)distribution.

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With mud comes a slew of boring screenshots...

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The Center.

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The South, which gets a little action during Mike's turn.

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During my half of the turn, I launched no attacks and only suffered a couple of minor interdictions. Hence, only the OOB shot to track the numbers.

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A slightly less boring picture in the North. Only because I just now realized I've got a "lost and wayward" reinforcement...

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More nothing to see in the Center.

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The beginning of my phased withdrawal in the South.

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OOB and Losses for my half of Turn 44.

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The front had mud in all zones this turn, so the pictures will be boring again. My Northern shot...