Triumph or Agony (1941 Russia) Boron (Reich) vs. Seille (Sowjets)

[seille]

Nothing to report from my side.
Germans took Sevastopol, but we´re on our way to attack the crimea.

Our central forces advanced in direction to Smolensk. Only very small losses
this turn for both sides since Boron evaded my attack.

[xBoroNx]

Eh i did not evade everywhere. The brave army group south wages a successful winter campaign

[seille]

Lol, we´ll see if you´ll stand and die there

[xBoroNx]

Might be possible indeed. Turn sent fyi.

[seille]

Turn 11.

My forces continued to follow the Germans. They still evade my attacks except in the south.
Here they advance to Stalingrad and they try to cut off my Crimea army which was send to recapture Sevastopol.
Supply situation is very difficult and confusing in the south (you know that, Vic ? [:D] )
I started a offensive to free Maikop. Very hard and very sucessful attack.
One "good" turn left....

[xBoroNx]

That attack hurt . Without this success against the rumanian army group i would have had a good winter i think, but i am probably losing a whole army group down there

[seille]

Russian turn 12.
Not much this turn. Tried limited counterattacks in front of Stalingrad (Boron is only one hex away)
and continued to advance in the center. I´m now in the line Rshev-Orsha there.
Moved closer to Maikop. But time runs out. Was my last winter turn and i killed not enough german stuff.
But Boron allowed me to recapture a lot of terrain which will also help me.

[xBoroNx]

Hm the situation is interesting now. Situation in the south at the beginning of my turn:

The romanians are encircled and suffered badly in the winter, but Seilles Krim Army is encircled too.

[xBoroNx]

In front of army group center are the russian hordes. I only show the russians, no need to see the weak german troops on the other side of the front. At least we had one minor success this turn, we took Stalingrad and overrun 7 russian dive bombers on the ground there.

[seille]

Lol, russian hordes and the poor germans
This is just propaganda. Boron will make you guy´s thinking that he´s so weak.
But he isn´t !

He suffered nearly no losses during the winter turns and had only small losses during 1941.
Look at the screen showing the center. That are the "weak" german units he did not want to show in his turn....

[seille]

In my turn i continued my attacks in front of Helsinki and Maikop.

[xBoroNx]

Sigh fucked up an airbattle. I really wonder where seille did hide his fighters.

Hard battles occur in the center.

[xBoroNx]

Overall it has been a not too bad turn for the axis i think. But i still remain pessimistic, Seille's Center Army is still very large and healthy.

[xBoroNx]

Here is Seille's remaining Center Army. Very scary.

[xBoroNx]

For army group south and the romanians the situation begins to look promising though. Seille's Army that tried to retake the Krim is cut off and currently is starving, as our 3 romanian units still holding parts of the Krim.

AG South almost cut off the south from Moscow. The remnants of the soviet Stalingradarmy were destroyed this turn, only some stragglers survived. Finland is a source of sorrow though.

[seille]

Our situation starts to become hopeless.
A small chance we still see in front of Helsinki and the center.

In the center we engaged the enemy air fleet without success.
But the following ground attacks has been successful. We fought back the german spearheads in the center.

In Maikop the enemy was able to reconnect his forces to supply and reenforcements via Rostov.

As i said it doesn´t look good for my russians.

[seille]

Losses during my turn

[xBoroNx]

Hm OKW begins to get mildly optimistic. Unfortunately Seille seems to have his fighters on 25% losses but attack with 25 readiness. At least we eliminate about 1/3 of his fighter force.

[xBoroNx]

The last remaining panzers AG north has overrun some soviet planes stationed in novgorod after the artillery + infantry of AG north has broken through the soviet defense lines. A clear sign that the russians seem to really be in trouble.

[xBoroNx]

This turn is quite bloody and the germans accept high losses since the russian airport where the remaining fighters were stationed seemed in reach. We did manage to break through till 1 hex before, but couldn't attack the airport anymore then and attacks on the russian HQ were beaten back too. Also the Finns did a counterattack but suffered more casualities than the russians there.

Overall the kill/loss ratio is in favor of the axis though. Not shown: 14 killed russian light tanks II.

Total losses for soviets are worth 175400 production points, axis losses are 60080 production points worth.
175k production points should be almost a 2 turn production for russia. There might be a real chance to win with our Fall Blau offensive then.