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hi kingtiger,
what`s about our possum game.
i want to continue it.
greetings
wieschi

G'day Wieschi,
I do not have a copy of our game as I have had to format my hard drive. If you still have a copy of our game, I will play it to the end.

1/11/43
Mud

Nothing to report

Air power played a big part in our last major battle. Without complete control of the skies, Germany would of suffered a major defeat. Every Tank and aircraft that I could scrap together was involved in the battle.

Nov 8
Still raining but it looks like the winter will come next week.

15/11/43
Snow

Germany has launched a few static attacks in the north and centre retreating all but 1 korps. Newly formed and Stug batts have suffered high losses in these battles.
Germany troops are as ready as they can be for the up and comming Soviet winter offensive.

November 15 1943

I launched attacks all over the front this week, at places supported by the somewhat rebuilt Red Air Force. But they all failed! At least the German entrenchment got reduced. I fear a lot of my units will get repulsed by counter-attacks next week though.

22/11/43
snow

This week I have attacked every Soviet korps in contact with my troops.
Close to all my attacks were repulsed causing me heavy losses. I have never seen so many 4-1 attacks in a single turn!! My failer in counter attacking the advancing Soviet troops has put me in a prone position. I would of been alot better to concentrate my forces on fewer targets to obtain better results.
Air battles have shown only a small number of Soviet fighter wings have been committed to battle so my reserve airforce has not been needed to counter this threat.

A very hot winter sees intense combat all along the front. My attacks were again rather unsuccessful except for a couple of places where I had overwhelming odds. My 3 surviving Tank Armies along with the rest of the Red Air Force have been commited to the extreme south, effecting a break into the enemy's front. I could have gone for encircling 2 panzer korps but I didn't feel like taking risks anymore since this is my entire armored force we're talking about.

29/11/43
Snow

A Soviet attack in the south has unhinged my strongest defencive position. This force was supported by a very strong airforce but the true strength could only be seen during combat resulation.
A large air battle was fought in the south in support of a attack resulting in 350 fighters and 30 bombers destroyed on both sides. My counter attacks in this sector have been stopped by powerful forces.

In the centre I have retreated my army to shortern my lines to free up much needed troops for the south

The Germans are only giving ground where they want to. I was hoping to create a fluid situation in the south so I'd have a chance of capturing Kiev and getting on the border of Romania this winter. But the PzKorps rushed to the area appear more than enough to stabilize the front. An advance in the center is comparatively worthless to me. The only compensation I got was being able to capture a relatively weak PzKorps left in an exposed position. Surprisingly, the Red Air Force was able to get through and help a lot in this operation, but only at the cost of almost 400 aircraft on my half of the turn alone.

6/12/43
Snow

I think K62 is too modest, I have suffered a defeat in the south with my best Pz korps in the area surrendering. All my other Pz korps in this area have suffered heavy losses and they are no match for the force that are in front of them. the southern fronts needs to be reinforced or it will fall. The Soviet airforce has proved to be a deadly force having complete control over the air. No counter attacks could be launched in the south and all attacks in the north and centre have failed to retreat the enemy.

losses
Axis/Soviet

260/922
28/42
113/231
222/225

The enemy's air cover was too strong to attempt to penetrate in the south so the troops were ordered to rest and refit before moving next to PzKorps of unknown strength. Most of the attacks on the other fronts have succeeded this week, a rare occurence. The blizzards have finally come and this should make things a bit easier for me. The Germans are hardly affected in readiness in '43, but the movement of their PzKorps will be reduced to only 2.

December 13 was an unlucky week for me. Despite the blizzard and some air support, my two main attacks aiming to isolate PzKorps have failed. Also, in the south my worst fears were realised as I ran into a very strong PzKorps filled with Panthers. The net result is that I got very high casualties on my own half of the turn.

20/12/43
Blizzard

AGS has counter attacked and advanced in the very south retreating 2 INF korps. Soviet forces in this area seemed very small and my old defence line should be recaptured with ease, freeing up alot of troops.

AGC with its reformed lines is starting to be attacked by advancing Soviets and all counter attacks in this front have failed.

AGN has launched only 1 counter attack retreating a Soviet armored korps. Very strong forces have been commited in this area and we expect no Soviet advance. 40 INF divisions have been placed in reserve/refitting to ensure there is no advance.

Key defencive areas are starting to be out flanked putting my troops in some risky positions. Panthers have been given the task to ensure the supply lines are held open at all costs.

I'm getting rather unlucky results lately. This week Stalin has been interfering with a lot of attacks. When Zhukov finally got his way, he did a poor attack and failed to surrender a PzKorps attacked from everywhere [&:]

27/12/43
Blizzard

A fort hex on the cross roads east of Gomel has been out flanked and cut off. Very large numbers of enemy aircraft have been committed to this area and have complete control of the air. The Soviet's failed to assign aircover east of my encircled Pz korps and my bombers pounded the defenders allowing My encircled troops to breakout.

I have encountered large numbers of Soviet tanks 5 hexes SE of Keiv and we fear that these forces are working together with the forces from the Gomel area in a Attempt to outflank Kiev.

A very strong tank army has attacked the supply hex of Daugavpils in a attempt to encircle the troops in this city. A Counter attack has been launched but has failed to dislodge the attackers. This area is heating up and once again 1 my fort hexes are being outflanked.

A usual mix of successful and failed attacks this turn. The superb German deployment is preventing me from attacking on large sections of the front. The Red Air Force struggled hard to penetrate into a Luftwaffe airfield but only got about 30 a/c on the ground. Snow next week.

3/1/44
Snow

Airforce and Pz divisions are undergoing some major rebuilding for future operations.
Reformed my southern defences around Kiev. We expect some very heavy battles in this sector with the Soviets attacking in 3 directions.
In the Centre, a large scale armored attack has been repulsed resulting in 230 German tanks being destroyed.

10/1/44
Snow

All quiet on the eastern front!!!
Production has been reformed
Defence in depth has been created

Germany's oil wells are being bombed even tho she has a very large amount of air power committed to this sector. For some reason my fighters fail to take to the air in large numbers.

February 14 1944

As the winter is drawing to a close I launched the last major operation taking advantage of frozen rivers. Daugavpils has been surrounded by the best 3 tank armies I could scrape together, helped by 2 shock armies. Half the garrison has surrendered this week but the other half resisted. I'm waiting for the strong relieving armored attack that's bound to come next week. The gains however are offset by the virtual destruction of my air force at the hands of huge numbers of He177 and Fw190. It tried but failed to prevent air supply from reaching the isolated Nazis.

The cities of Riga and Minsk have been transformed into impregnable fortresses. All attempts to even move next to them have been repulsed with heavy losses. Further south the Germans have abandoned Kiev and Zhitomir. Attacks on Odessa have failed with heavy losses for the last two weeks.

2/21/44

The retreating Germans broke through to their own lines. Daugavpils has been liberated after being under siege for the entire winter. Another attack on Odessa failed.

Total losses:

Germany
36.5K
8.5K
21K
12.5K

USSR
61K
12K
21K
15.5K