FITE2.......Fogger(A)......Fulkerson(S)

[fogger]

Second try. tank losses at just over half way into turn 6

[larryfulkerson]

I found a hex that needs some attention. Supposedly it's a rail hex but my embarked units can't move across it going north. D'oh.
Maybe some kinda special terrain for that one hex to give the railroad something to sit on or something. At any rate it's a roadblock.

[fogger]

Cfant2 asked how long it was taking to do a turn. My first turn took approx 4 hours. Since then each turn is taking approx 3 hours. I am doing a turn every 2nd night. Larry is retired and is normally returning within a day or two. He is in the USA while I am in Australia so that helps.

I sent turn 6 last night to Larry and my first impressions of the game. It is great. The fog of war has kicked in now and I had one recon unit bounce off an Inf Regt and try to go round only to hit another unit and then another unit as I tried to go round the 2nd Inf Regt. I am not seeing Larry’s Arty units until they fire their DF & FPF missions. They are firing even when I have conducted an overrun attack. There also does not appear to be any mobile supply units for the Germans.

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Supply position in the north

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supply in the centre

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supply in the south

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie......I've received John's moves and this is what I see before anybody has moved:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all the reinforcements I get in T7. A lot of them are really supply low and need some rest before I can count them as combat
ready.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Riga area now. John is across the river and is branching out and spreading his units around and there's no hope of holding
him back now.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie........I've received some moves from John and this is the front lines in T8:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Riga area now. John is making his toehold bigger each turn.

[rob89]

Hello folks,

when ordinary people could have this TOAW 3.6 'AND' this wonderful FITE 2 ?

Is the modified database customized for FITE 2 or it's a new TOAW 3.6 feature ?

thank you all, in advance

Rob

[fogger]

Hi Rob,
There are still bugs in 3.6. Have you noticed that Larry and I are playing "two player hot seat" and not PBEM. Like wise with FITE2. larry and I are doing a test play to see what bugs are in it. There have been several to date and I may have found another one last night which I have yet advised Soren of. So I better send him an email now.
cheers
john

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: rob89

Hello folks,

when ordinary people could have this TOAW 3.6 'AND' this wonderful FITE 2 ?

Is the modified database customized for FITE 2 or it's a new TOAW 3.6 feature ?

thank you all, in advance
Rob

So um.......the database is curtomized for FITE2.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what Minsk looks like now. John is moving to surround the Soviet grouping at Minsk.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Stalin Line down south. It's dynamic and confusing. It's also breaking up. German pressure is terrific.

[Cfant]

Sorry if it is mentioned somewhere, I didn't find it. Is there any penalty for the Soviet, if he retreats too much? In FitE, there was no (political) problem to abandon vast territories, so the Soviet could mass up troops behind the Djnepr. (Yes, it had its own dangers, but there was no reason to really defend Minsk or Stalin Line). Is this the same in FitE2? [:)]

[fogger]

Riga has been cleared and I have pocketed about 3 div's in the circles. My recon and racing to see if they can capture a major river crossing

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Cfant2
Is there any penalty for the Soviet, if he retreats too much?

Um.....there are factory units in a lot of the Soviet cities and retreating too much would expose them to capture or destruction. I'm not
sure what effect that would have on the game but I suspect that there's some reduction of victory points or something similar. It hasn't
happened in our game yet so I don't know, I have no proof yet. I'll have to look that up in the scenario briefing or somewhere. It's a good
question. I haven't been pulling back so quickly and there's been a lot of capture and destruction going on but no major factory has
been threatened yet. I'm kind of curious now. I guess we'll find out.

[fogger]

The game has a very good fog of war. In the south this is what I can see. The area marked is the Stalin Line and I was thinking that this would be Larry's MLR and the units that I have engaged in the last couple of turns were part of his forward screen. A couple of quick attacks got me a bloody nose. I then had to do set piece attacks and am now getting into larry's rear areas and there is a chance that I will be able to start forming some pockets. To the north there appears to be a gap in Larry's MLR and I have 3 recon units in that area.