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OOB not much AFV in front of us

losses seems fine

aerial losses becoming quite heavy

production not much captured material being used

majority of action has been in the south
pockets have been reduced (a lot of losses from which 2 corps)

in the north Volkhov front continue to push Finns
part of Leningrad front put static, Norwest too
for the moment no capacity to attack everywhere

a bit south Vyazma has been taken during a broad advance
at the same time pushing around Rzhev
all these to divert a part of his south strength

last real offense is around Tula-Orel-Kursk
he has allready reinforced a bit
defense become less of a problem

i have repulsed a part of his northern spearhead
a lot of Panzer & Motorised div show a CV of 2-3
again some units isolated

south of his advance i must leave some ground again
i try to maintain contact to keep attrition
reopen supply toward 5 div (1 Guard) by pusing GD [8D]

at the same time going out of Crimea
for the moment 1.5 army in attack
the front has 4 armies awaiting orders (total)

OOB
his attacks cost me 200K troops [:@]

losses from my turn
I don't think he can sustain that long

production
next turn we will received first KV1-42

Hi everyone, Cpt Flam kindly invited me to contribute to the AAR from the Axis side. I should add - I don't usually look at this much, and not while I still am playing my response. So, in a while, you will see what I have done to continue the mad panzer advance towards the Don, north of the bulge of Soviet defences around Stalino.

I want to make three observations. First, Patrick is a really tough defender...very aggressive in his approach, which made my 1941 attacks hard. I thought I had done pretty well, and then held on in the blizzard, but the outcome is, I think, quite clear -- the Axis will be defeated (again). The offensives in the north, during 1942, are really worrying me and, even with a total concentration of all my armour down south, I have only just managed to get through and have not really pocketed much. Second, my one regret with this game is that it was afflicted by the partisan cadre bug which meant, for much of the last 6 weeks of 1941, my southern advance, and defensive prep for winter, were badly damaged. Hats off to Patrick for using it -- no complaints, just a little frustrating . I think there are some important lessons here for Soviet defenders in 1942 ... you have to attack a lot, in other places. You need to force open pockets. You need to start winning the war in this year, so as to avoid too much slogging in 1943.

Now, I am just hoping the Soviets have run out of defenders . But i doubt it.

this summer his action is limited to the south
trying to bypass my lines
a lot of his units have a CV 2 to 4

going from north to south
Volkhov front continue to gain few hexes
as allways situation end of my turn

Vyazma secured i think
just pulled an army from the line (Kalinin front) to redeploy in the south
no more corps made, actually doing div ans some brigade to recover from losses

Orel-Kursk all is not fine
reinforcement came has i wanted
some advance but noreal progress

part north of his advance
some counter-attacks on leading units
again some units isolated (i lost some AP to merge these)
part of the attack was against Hungarian (no real choice)