[center]15 January 1942[/center]
A small update. Now the 55% of the Blizzard Massacres is done. But I prefer to think I still have the 45% of it (6 turns)!
First of all, Marquo hasn't been lucky yet: no snow at all, only blizzard [:)] But he hasn't allowed me to swallow some of his units
In fact my plan was based on two assumptions:
1) he would try to hold ground
2) the new rules would make attacks more complicated
1) proved to be false: he ran away (chicken!) leaving some buffer hexes. 2) was false too. I am making lots of attacks (I did not expect it). As I said above (the ruthless thug thing) I merely attack every single enemy unit, as long as I had 1:1 (december) and 2:1 (january). An exception: you actually CAN attack against the odds when you are massing minimum 4 rifle divisions vs 1 single enemy division.
So in fact I more or less threw overboard the "plan" and simply started chasing him. Another thing I did: I had around 60 rifle divisions as reserves. I was sending to the front like 5 or 6 each turn. Now I will be sending all of them to make sure they see combat before the end of the offensive. If Marquo expects less attacks he might be utterly wrong. I am using a "waves" approach. On the last 4 turns of the blizzard all the Red Army will be pushing hard. I will have plenty of time to recover until summer [;)]
And yes, everyone is massed at the frontline. Come snow... *poof* ... they will vanish behind the front. I must not allow Marquo to create a big mess during the snow turns [;)] For sure he wants some revenge...
As for the OOB, the Red Army is stuck at 6 million. Losses have to be severe but I really don't care (as long as I don't break the army). 6 million are still a lot of men. And the many attacks should pay dividends: I expect to harvest lots of Guards and if I am not mistaken each German defeat = loss of morale = less dangerous enemy come snow, spring etc.
