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ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS
It's good to see you inflicting the casualties at a rate he won't be able to sustain over the long haul.  It would be even better to work on a
concentrated attack on some part of the line, particularly with guards rifle corps.  Minsk looks promising as you have the guards rifle
divisions already there but can't see the entrenchment and CV levels obviously.

Um......I like the way you think but unfortunately, I've just opened my turn from the server and the situation has changed drastically.

As you can see from the picture below KLilly has torn a hole in my lines and has almost made a mega-pocket. I'm not at all sure I can
extract those guys either.

This is the front lines for turn 64 before any Soviet recon or Soviet movement.

Here's a close up of the area in question. I've made some arrows to depict the actions of the Axis and my proposed actions to react
to the disaster. I'm thinking I need to pull back before the tanks get on the west side of a bunch more troops and try to glom around
his spearhead(s) and slow down this process if I can. Those guys trapped in the pocket are probably goners.

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS
...even better to work on a concentrated attack on some part of the line, particularly with guards rifle corps.  Minsk looks promising as you have the guards rifle divisions already there but can't see the entrenchment and CV levels obviously.

Here's a picture of the Minsk area. I'm ready to rumble in this area and unless I'm mistaken I've already initiated some probing
attacks here. I like your sentiment and I'll look into it seriously.

Here's what I settled on for moves in the breakout area

I did this picture just to see if I was deploying my aircraft efficiently. I've got some IL-4's in the Crimea that I used to city bomb
Bucharest but I don't do that so often anymore so I guess I could move them to Moscow so as to be in range of most of the map.

Here's a report on my Front HQ's sorted by CP. I've got quite a few overtaxed Fronts and some fronts that aren't carrying their weight.
I've got to get better organized sometime soon.

I just gave my Farfarer AAR a tour of the Fronts starting at the north and going south and it helped me get organized and have a
better idea of the condition of the various Front HQ's and so I thought I'd do the same thing here.

The 52nd Army of the Volkov front is holding down the fort in the far north. I'm probably going to have to rail some people up here
when the campaign starts against the Finns ( not yet but maybe in the Winter '42-'43 season ).

The 3rd Shock Army HQ of the Volkov Front doesn't have any attached units yet but he's going to be filled in with some divisions as
soon as I get off my but and rail some up here. I'm hoping to use Guard Divisions since it's a shock army ( to enhance one advantage
with another ). I've successfully attacked the Finns in other games so I'm guessing I can do it again maybe. I'm definately going to need
more troops than are here now so I might as well buy some rifle divisions and grow them into experienced Corps units and ship them up here eventually.

This picture shows the Leningrad situation. I'm holding the Finns back near Leningrad by Forts. The shaded hexes ( enemy hexes )
would indicate that KLilly probably has a front line in the north and the south and probably has most of his troops 1/2-way between
the front lines. I could do some recon to make sure but I'm not that interested at this exact moment. Before I step off the attacking
next winter I'll do a proper recon job.

I'm thinking that if KLilly has his Finn Reserve in the middle, ready to head in either direction, north or south as need be, then I'll
probably have to attack from both the north and the south simultaneously to really put pressure on the Finns. As I recall, somebody
described them as brittle, faling apart once the lines are cracked open. Maybe it's because they don't get much in the way of men and
equipment compared with the Germans.

Here's the two Armies of the NorthWest Front just southwest of Leningrad. This is a quiet front and I might ought to consider putting
some of this front's assets in static mode maybe. Well, but winter is almost upon us and I'm intending to attack with this Front.

And next are the two Armies of the Leningrad front

And then here are the two Armies of the Moscow Defense Zone Front. I should probably give this front's troops to the Leningrad
Front and just forget about using the Moscow Defense Zone as a front.

Next are four Armies of the Moscow MD front

Next are four Armies of the Kalinin Front

And then there is one Army from the Western Front

Next are five Armies of the Bryansk Front

Next are three Armies of the Urals MD Front

Next is one Army of the Northwest Front put here originally to plug a hole in the front lines. I need to replace the front HQ sometime
soon.

Then there's two armies of the S.E. Front

And then there's another Army of the NorthWest Front. I'm going to eventually find all these orphan Armies and get them organized
better.