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How much recon are you generally doing, Larry? It looks to me from the screenshots like you are not flying many recon missions. Those can be a big help in determining where his strongest forces and reserves are located.

Regards,

- Erik

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
How much recon are you generally doing, Larry? It looks to me from the screenshots like you are not flying many recon missions. Those can be a big help in determining where his strongest forces and reserves are located.

Regards,

- Erik

Um......a little while ago I flew some recon missions and scopped out a lot of areas to see where what was where and I'm not sure I
decifered the signal.....I mean the AI could hide tanks in the light woods or something and I'd not know it. I need practice in seeing
what the recon flights are telling me. A bit more RAM in my scull would help but, D'oh, I'm decreasing in RAM as I get older and can't
seem to remember stuff that used to be a bit easier to remember. It's an un-nerving feeling that you don't want to share with anybody.

Hi Larry,

No worries. I actually have a little sticky note with a checklist of things to remind myself to do during a WITE turn. #1 is Recon and it's not enough to just click on the AI button. Do that a few times and then manually fill in the gaps with recon missions. It's amazing how helpful it can be in developing the strategic picture if you keep up with this.

Regards,

- Erik

That's the problem.....keeping up with the strategic picture.  I've got 2 ( two ) PBEM games going at the same time and even though they aren't the same turn, I'm having the problem in my head of overlapping "strategic situatons" from one game to the other.   It's not easy for me to try to keep the two games separate in my head.  Not complaining though, it's a great game, lots of fun.

Here's July 30, 1942 (T59) the affected part of the front lines. KLilly has broken through again. I'm pretty sure I can probably cut off
maybe his spearhead(s). It's worth trying I think.

This is what I ended up with in the way of Soviet moves in the Crimea area: I'm trying to glom around his spearheads and threaten to
pinch off his thrust and pulled back on the other side to the other side of the nearest river. This is in preperation to pull back even
further into the Crimea itself. Although I'm not sure I should pull back that far. I'm thinking there on the riverbank might be the best
place. What do all you guys think: (!) pull back to the entrance to the Crimea itself where it bottlenecks to 2-hexes wide or (2) stay right
there at the riverbank or (3) something else entirely.

Here's my moves with an animated overlay showing my attacks:

How far back you go into the Crimea depends largely on what he does next turn.  If you could keep the left side as far forward as Kakhovka that would be ideal. 

Here's the T60 ( 6Aug1942) front lines before any Soviet movement has taken place.

Here's a close-up of the breakout area in the South:

Here's all my moves so far:

I've decided to use the 27th Army as my Reserve Army. They are all assembled, railed, and ready for deployment. I've railed enough
troops to the trouble spots so now I'm waiting for another trouble spot to show itself.

Here's a list of the air groups sorted on kills, most at the top

Here's my moves before I started attacking and air base striking:

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production:

This is the T61 front lines before any recon or Soviet movement.

This is a close up of where I committed the 27th Army. I figured that the presence of Axis armour deserved some added protection.
I'm going to move some other army to the Reserve army I'm building. I guess I'm going to need a reserve really soon now.

Here's the new Reserve Army, the 34th. I've moved them to the rails and made them ready to rail to hot spots.

Here's a close up of the Crimea:

I've been building Rifle Corps for a couple of turns now and I have almost 2 dozen of them so far: