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ORIGINAL: Stelteck

I have my new toy, the T34-85 !! (250 each week). (instead of T34 1942 production).

But replacing my 20000 tanks with them will take a long time.... [:D]

I have some entire tank corps that "upgraded" to Matilda II. I known this tank will be useful some day

Time and space is not on your side now. You have a long way to go & Stef is set up pretty nice. I wish you the best but it looks to be a long hard road ahead for you Sir.

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Time and space is not on your side now. You have a long way to go & Stef is set up pretty nice. I wish you the best but it looks to be a long hard road ahead for you Sir.

I heard that the allied will open another front soon !!! [8D]

ORIGINAL: Stelteck

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Time and space is not on your side now. You have a long way to go & Stef is set up pretty nice. I wish you the best but it looks to be a long hard road ahead for you Sir.

I heard that the allied will open another front soon !!! [8D]

For how many years have we been hearing that?

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

ORIGINAL: Stelteck

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Time and space is not on your side now. You have a long way to go & Stef is set up pretty nice. I wish you the best but it looks to be a long hard road ahead for you Sir.

I heard that the allied will open another front soon !!! [8D]

For how many years have we been hearing that?

Tick tock tick tock tick tock

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

ORIGINAL: Stelteck




I heard that the allied will open another front soon !!! [8D]

For how many years have we been hearing that?

Tick tock tick tock tick tock

And some music while we wait ;_)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW18i6OBZRY

ORIGINAL: EwaldvonKleist
May I propose another goal? Destroy equal or more than 2000 AFVs and SP&AC in a single turn. You came quite close to this last week...

Not an easy task... it requires several events:
- an agressive play from Stelteck
- the opportunity to do 15 counterattacks
- an average of 133 AFV lost per fight for the russian

And if look at the battle report, you need at least 1200 russian AFV and 800 german AFV in a single fight to get such a result... really hard to achieve...

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

You need to send some of those 12,000 tanks to your Rumanian brethren!!!! The Rumanians have a whooping 19 tanks in their 2-7 Armor Division (Now if we could only do such an act).

German tanks are on the way to Romania [;)]

Always surprised with the hungarian planes exports

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
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Time and space is not on your side now. You have a long way to go...

Hum... not really sure that time is on my side... I felt more confident in 1942!

ORIGINAL: STEF78
Always surprised with the hungarian planes exports

If unwelcome again you can actively manage pools to leave them empty to prevent exports.

ORIGINAL: STEF78

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
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Time and space is not on your side now. You have a long way to go...

Hum... not really sure that time is on my side... I felt more confident in 1942!

Burden of attack is on Stelteck. You are sitting on a very nice pool of Manpower at the moment along with a hefty size tank pool. Your planes are still shooting "TONS" of Soviet aircraft out of the sky still. You have a pretty good line of Forts and river lines. IMO you are sitting pretty darn nice at the moment & time and space is on your side.

Is this bitter end? If so what is the VP situation?
You must be in a quite comfortable position I would think.

ORIGINAL: Telemecus

ORIGINAL: STEF78
Always surprised with the hungarian planes exports

If unwelcome again you can actively manage pools to leave them empty to prevent exports.

No need, hungarian air units are pretty well equiped now (BF 109 G6) and I need my AP's for other tasks

ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Burden of attack is on Stelteck. You are sitting on a very nice pool of Manpower at the moment along with a hefty size tank pool. Your planes are still shooting "TONS" of Soviet aircraft out of the sky still. You have a pretty good line of Forts and river lines. IMO you are sitting pretty darn nice at the moment & time and space is on your side.

We shall see. I have in fact a strong army and space to trade against time. Airpower doesn't matter.

But I have already played the germans 3 times past spring 1944 and one time in 1945. It has nothing to see with 1943.
- NM will be soon equivalent for both armies... and russian army will be 2/1 or more. The only advantage of german army will be the quality of the commanders.
- Stelteck has built a full mechanized army. With clear weather it can be a deadly toy.
- If he does a big encirclement during summer 1944, my frontline will collapse (See Sillyflower against BrianG) and never recover.

I have an significant advantage at the moment but game isn't won.

ORIGINAL: timmyab

Is this bitter end? If so what is the VP situation?
You must be in a quite comfortable position I would think.

Situation is confortable at the moment.

It's bitter end. The VP situation is currently 6/1. It was 6.2/1 late summer 1943. I will post the screen once I get the turn back.

ORIGINAL: STEF78

ORIGINAL: timmyab

Is this bitter end? If so what is the VP situation?
You must be in a quite comfortable position I would think.

Situation is confortable at the moment.

It's bitter end. The VP situation is currently 6/1. It was 6.2/1 late summer 1943. I will post the screen once I get the turn back.

Yup, Stelteck needs to have a stellar 1944 to overcome that deficit.

Turn 135, 13th january 1944

A thought about victory conditions. They are based on:
- the possession of cities each turn
- the possession of cities at the end of the game
- the losses inflicted

In order to win, Stelteck should:
1) liberate Moscow, Rostov, Stalino and Kharkov then Leningrad and Kiev as soon as possible
2) try to inflict as much losses as possible to the axis
3) drive hard to Germany

It's always interesting to be aware of opponent objectives!

At the moment situation is as follow:

North

Grinding is on...



Kalinin

Situation looks Under control



Tula

Center of gravity of the offensive moved north. Always counterattacking!



South

Center of gravity of the offensive moved South. Always counterattacking!



The losses. Another week with 1000+ AFV russian losses



And the OOB. 24000 russian AFV at the end of the turn.

It's always interesting to be aware of opponent objectives!

It's also important to know where you need to stubbornly hold on for an extra few turns if possible.
Historically even Kiev should be in Soviet hands at this stage so you must be building an unassailable lead I would think.
The only danger is probably a Stalingrad type disaster (or two).

I'd still be interested to see the victory screen - if it's not a state secret that is

An overview of the evolution of both OOB

Despite huge AFV losses, russian have kept 24000 AFV. I guess that if Stelteck set his tank corps on refit they would be at 26000 within 2 weeks

Inf is suffering ont both sides.

Axis received some armored units and there is almost no air withdrawal

ORIGINAL: timmyab

[I'd still be interested to see the victory screen - if it's not a state secret that is

No secret. Here turn 141, holding Moscow during 2 years means a decisive advantage.

Turn 136, 20th january 1944

Week after week I feel less and less confident in my ability to hold the frontline. At the moment I'm holding from far north to Ryazan. Giving ground when needed from Ryazan to Boguchar, retreating in the Don bend and holding near Rostov.

I feel I won't be that confortable during the next weeks.

Let's begin with the "minor" fight's area

Sevastopol

I thought "Perekop" would have hold... Bad news... Bagramyan got a superb result. I will have to commit reinforcement here... that would have been useful elsewhere.



Far north

The finns receive almost no replacement... and they are now facing several rifle corps



Kalinin

A Pzk is required to hold the northern flank of Moscow's defence



Moscow

2 Pzk required here... always axis air superiority