Notes...
We are still on the beta patch (v 1.02.13_Beta - the 13 update came during the Soviet turn) and both running on Steam. Also of note it was after this turn I discovered a way to reduce my flak losses (until a fix goes into the next patch), that will be implemented on turn 4.
Turn 4 - 13-Jul-1941
New Events
Eastward Evacuations by Soviets.
Turn Summary & General Notes (previous Soviet turn)
Reinforcements
I received two German Infantry Divisions (73rd and 163rd). The 8th SS Cavalry Brigade arrived in the Soviet Union Garrison (SUG). I also got 8 flak battalions, and 3 flak regiments. Two Stug battalions arrived on map and one into Axis Reserves. The four construction units also arrived (three were transfers). Looks like the 136th Fascist Italian Motorized Division arrived from Italy to North Africa. Also a few of the TB transfers also took effect this turn.
Friendly Losses
Friendly losses show 11,740 men, 55 guns, 28 AFVs and 491 aircraft (most were due to my recon units getting slaughtered).
Logistic Summary
Units looks pretty good. The tons received was down about 7k. Everything else looks pretty good.
Combat Unit Alerts
Shows 4 unready, but the CR shows that 2 (26th and 27th Hun. Infantry Brigades) are unready. The 6 showing depleted are all Flak Towers.
Looks like more Naval Patrols around Riga and Odessa.
Riga:
Odessa:
Soviet GA
AGN (Pskov area)
AGC (Land Bridge area)
AGS (Proskurov and Kishinev areas)
In total it looks like the Soviets ran 116 Battles last turn and it breaks down like so.
Observed: 4 (Recon)
Grd Bombed: 1
Interdict: 81
Naval Attack: 30
It looks like the biggest missions by the Soviets was 55 Bombers on a Naval Attack and the most Fighters was 53 for one Naval Attack mission. The most losses during these missions were during the Interdiction missions with the lost of 5 Soviet fighters, 7 Soviet bombers, and 3 Soviet Recon aircraft. It does not appear that I lost any air during these missions.
However there were 7 Air Combat missions (interception) and the best one was the best by far, this was in the AGS sector:
In that list the first mission was a Soviet Interdiction mission with 24 planes, no losses. The second was the Air Combat where I had 100 Fighters intercept the 82 unescorted Soviet interdiction mission and wiped it out for the loss of only 3 Hungarian planes. The last mission was also an interdiction mission with
Also in the AGS sector there was two other Air Combat missions.
This one yielded no losses to the Axis and 1/3 of the Soviet fighters and about 1/3 of the Soviet bombers.
This last one more costly since I lost just shy of 50% of my fighters (most all were Hungarians) and took out about 1/3 of the Soviet fighters and only 2% of the Soviet bombers.
This interception was in the AGN area and the 24 Bf 109F-2 lost none and knocked out 50% of the Soviet fighters and about 50% of the Soviet bombers.
This was also in the AGN area and its a little weird.
Again, no losses to the Axis and it looks like about 3/4 of the Soviets were lost.
There were a few other interception missions, I had 12 Re.2000 Heja (Hungarians) knock out 7 of the 13 SB-2. Lastly there was a flight of 26 Hungarians that knocked out 50% of another interdiction mission (SB-2's again).
Top Aces at the start of the turn
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Logistics Report
Freight
Was down (Supply Need vs Supply Received) a bit this turn, I need to fix my Depots this turn.
Ground Command Totals
Sup Need 25688
Sup Recd 20003
Sup Lost 7240
Air Command Totals
Sup Need 5068
Sup Recd 3878
Sup Lost 996
Trucks lost in Freight 106
Soviet trucks captured 8314
Arrivals
Carpathian Hun. Army is no longer frozen.
3 Flak Regiments arrived into Western Europe.
Withdraw
Carpathian Hun. Army Removed
Supply
958 trucks were repaired and returned to the logistic pool.
Turn 4 - 13-Jul-1941 at Start
Air Phase:
I deleted all the AD and decided to start over.
I created 25 AD as follows:
Luftflotte 1
5x Recon (no more than 4 aircraft per)
1x Naval Patrol
1x Grd Support (AGN)
Luftflotte 2
4x Recon (no more than 4 aircraft per)
2x Grd Support (AGC and 2nd Army)
Luftflotte 4
3x Recon (no more than 4 aircraft per)
1x Air Superiority
1x Naval Patrol
2x Grd Support (AGS and 11th Army)
Hun.Air Cmd.
1x Recon
1x Grd Support (Mobile Hun. Corps)
Rum. Air Cmd.
2x Recon
1x Grd Support (Army Grp. Anton)
Air Execution Phase Summary
Total sorties: 1,484
Aircraft lost: 216
Damaged: 54
Enemy Aircraft lost in A2A: 129
Damaged: 6
Recon still took some heavy losses. Here is a small list:
Flew | Lost
4 | 4
4 | 2
6 | 2 (2 Escorts, lost one from each)
24 | 3 (no idea why 24 flew on D1 when I told it 4).
Riga Naval Patrol got hit hard.
This is interesting, my Superiority mission intercept the Soviet Naval Patrol.
As you can see from that Superiority mission the first Air Combat I lost 6 out of 20, but I knocked out 14 out of 22 (more than half). Then during the next Naval Patrol I lost 4 fighters and 2 bombers but took out 25 (or 50% of the Soviet fighters). Then the next Naval Patrol I lost 2 out of 38 fighters and 2 out of 40 bombers but knocked out 30 out 44 Soviet fighters. That was all on D1.
D2 the Air Combat I lost 7 out of 20 but knocked out 7 of 20 so it was an even loss ratio (not good for the Axis here). Then the Naval Patrol I only lost 1 fighter and 1 bomber and took out 15 o the 28 Soviet fighters. On D3 it was another Air Combat with the Axis losing half and the Soviets just shy of half aircraft again another small Soviet victory here.
Next was my Naval Patrol went in and both sides got smashed up pretty good.
Quite a number of Axis losses here but the Soviets took it far worse.
So diving into some of the details here, it was as I suspected, my losses here was more flak losses.
As you can see almost all the Axis losses are from Flak.
Ground Phase
Again, looking over the OOB things for the Axis tend to look good. I have 3.4 million on map men, 36k guns, 4,109 AFV and 2,403 aircraft for Germany with a very small percentage in reserve. The Axis Allies have 1.2 million men on map, with 9k guns and 392 AFV and 659 aircraft with nothing in reserve. All the Axis numbers are down a few percentage points this turn.
The report shows that the the Soviet Union now has 2.6 million men on map (up 300k), with 560k in reserve but a total of 4.8 million (up 500k). I see 39k in guns (up 2k), 7,974 (previously 8,975) in AFV and 5,150 (up from 4,995) in aircraft. Their reserves show 2k in guns, 2,821 in AFV and 1,7k in aircraft.
Bottom line is again to kill more Soviets.
At start losses show.
Ground
Axis losses in men is 34,889 verses 780,751 Soviets. Gun losses is 570 to 14,261. AFV losses is 57 Axis to 4,967. Looks like the captured Soviet men is now 558,852.
Air
My total pilots KIA is now up to 798 with 1,109 aircraft lost. During the Axis air phase I lost 193 pilots KIA and 215 aircraft. The Soviets during that part of the turn lost 182 KIA and 234 lost aircraft. So turn 4 Air Phase was too evenly match for me. Even by lowing the Recon missions down to no more than 4 units the losses were still high to flak and also the two Naval Patrol missions were a bit costly. Need to rework both a bit more next turn.
Weather Report
Weather is clear, except for some rain in the far north (Artic circle area).
Commanders Report
I have a number (11 to be exact) of units whom are out of command range (DtHQ) that I need to rectify. I am usually pretty good at keeping units in command, so I'll investigate why this discrepancy exists and correct.
The highest Morale unit is the Grossdeutschland Motorized Regiment at 99. The most experienced unit is the 1/833rd Siege Mortar Battery at 95, followed by the Grossdeutschland at 92 and then the L.A..H. SS Mot. Brigade at 92 and the Totenkopf SS Mot. Division and Das Reich Mot. Division both at 91. I have 20 units that are at fatigue levels 40-50% I'll need to rest soon.
OKH total win/loss count at the start of turn 4 is at 174 to 1.
OKL total win/loss count at start of turn 4 shows 13 to 2. But the Airbase count shows Krosno as 1066 wins and 0 losses. So both the air displays here are strange.
Odessa Naval Patrol area:
TB Transfers
I transferred the 90th Light Division and 288th Battalion from the Western Front to North Africa. This will take four turns.
End of Turn Summary
End of turn map view.
Black Out Version
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Areas of Interest
None this turn. Mainly cleaned up several pockets and moved infantry forward and resting most of the mobile units to regain CPP.
Encircled a Soviet Rifle and Mountain Division here:
Here is a breakdown by Battle Result:
Total Battles: 54 (however only 9 of these were ground attacks, 5 HA and 4 DA).
Surrendered: 9
End of turn 4 losses
Ground
Losses seem a lot lower for 4 weeks of combat. Not quite at a million Soviets lost yet. Hoping to get a few more big pockets if possible in the upcoming turns.
Air
Again, my Recon losses are horrid. My fighter losses are down as well as my Tactical Bombers. The Soviet pilot losses are good, but I'd like to kill off a few thousand more lol.
Total Destroyed after 4 weeks of combat
Not too bad, but I'd like to have up to 50 Soviet rifle divisions destroyed by now.
OKH win/loss totals for turn 4.
178 to 1
...to be continued...