Field Marshal Fogger vs Marshal Fulkerson (again)

[fogger]

Have got Larry's turn back and am have started on my turn. The southern part of the Stalin line is now in a pocket and being covered by my inf & arty units. I have broken in to the covering line to the east and also jumped the river behind the line he was builting. I have also jumped the river to the north with the aim of getting behind the northern end of the Stalin line. If only my Inf would keep up.

[larryfulkerson]

John is moving closer to Pskov and soon the battle will start for the entrance to the highway to Leningrad. I've given up trying to defend
the city. John has activated the Finns and caught me off guard and he's going to own the city in a couple of turns so defending it here
doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But I do want to delay John's advance. I haven't even started building the front lines in front of
Moscow so I need to buy a whole lot of time for that. Say three turns at least. Without that the front lines won't be ready in time.

[larryfulkerson]

John has leaped across the river and defeated my roadblock around the north end of the Stalin Line. Now there's nothing holding
back anymore. He's going to own Kiev in about 10 turns. Maybe.

[larryfulkerson]

There's a lot of drama going on around the Odessa river crossings. Lots of pressure and so far the Soviets are holding. So far so good.

[fogger]

Riga has fallen

[fogger]

Minsk should fall next turn

[fogger]

The bottom end of the Stalin line is in a pocket and being destroyed in detail. The northern end is in the precess of being pocketed. A lot depends on if Larry tries to break and run. To the east of the southern end of the Stalin line I am also in the process of creating another pocket. Again it depends on if Larry tries to break and run. If does not then another 6 ddiv's go into the bag.

[fogger]

The Leningrad front close up. Don't believe Larry. I think he will defend. Already he is building a line to the north of the city. Another 3 divisions and the line will be complete. So once the line is complete my task becomes very hard as I do not have any armour or heavy arty in this area. I may have to move some from the main theatre of operation.

[fogger]

and the picture

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: fogger
The Leningrad front close up. Don't believe Larry. I think he will defend. Already he is building a line to the north of the city. Another 3 divisions and the line will be complete. So once the line is complete my task becomes very hard as I do not have any armour or heavy arty in this area. I may have to move some from the main theatre of operation.

John acts like a simple line across the isthmuth there will impede him somehow. He doesn't know that the defenders there are simple
civilians drafted to dig tank ditches and put up baracades not to fire a rifle and they haven't been given any training to speak of and the
few who volunteer to bring their own weapons are given charge of "guarding" the patriots so make sure they extend the appropriate
level of dedication to their tasks and to prevent deserters. There aren't many NKVD troops around these days so armed civilians are
the next best choice. But the proficiency of those defenders north of the city is in the 20's and couldn't and shouldn't be expected to
hold a position on the front line. But they might delay the attackers for maybe half a turn. Tops.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's an example where the scenario designers had a lack of units or wanted few units or something and lumped the ground support
and bombers in with the fighters. That's like mixing corn w/ green beans and calling it a salad. You can't use the fighters on air
support because the bombers will get shot down. You CAN however use the squadron for ground support because the fighters will
act as a built in ( organic ) escort section. So that's how I will use them I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

I received about 8 reconstituted squadrons this turn and I've got them parked at Moscow resting. The rest of them were sufficiently
high in readinesss that I deployed them at the front. These are the missions of the squadrons and their conditions. Most of them are
in the green and that's a good thing. I'm flying them w/ a one-dot setting because of the extremely low proficiency of these units. Trying
to fly them w/ two-dots or higher will just get them slaughtered.

[Zovs]

Sorry to intrude but what scenario is this again?

In development?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: dlazov66
Sorry to intrude but what scenario is this again?

In development?

This is Ron's Mod version 1.1.10 of the original FITE game and yes I'm guessing that if anybody wants to "fix" it then it will be in
development again. I don't know anybody working on it anymore. I've seen posts on the forum that say that FITE2 is being tested
and is being developed and Steve Sill and I are working on 3GW ( three German Words ) which is a smaller version of FITE and
so there's a lot of interest in this subject.

War of the West is coming out soon.

[Zovs]

Thanks Larry.

Yes, I have also seen the development threads/emails for FITE2. And also have seen the news about WitW as well.

Thanks for letting me know what your playing and which version.

Don.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what Odessa looks like now. It seems that John has gained one of the river crossings near Odessa and is going to take
advantage of it next turn. So it looks like John has defeated my river-side defense and I'll have to start falling back to the next river to
the east.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the situation at Pskov. John is approaching my front lines and has probed w/ his recon and I expect my defenders to be under
attack soon. And there's no more troops handy to defend with. I expect this strong point to be defeated within a couple of turns.

[larryfulkerson]

John is also approaching my defenders at the NE end of the marshes. I'm lining up troops along the river and I own all the crossings
so there's not much else to do except dig in and wait. The troops in this area have been static for a couple of turns now and they are
filling up with replacements and gaining their proficiency again. I expect this river crossing to be defeated in a couple of turns as well.

[larryfulkerson]

I moved my planes to the forward positions they need to hit targets and John has been striking them. This is how the air war is going
right now. My planes are falling out of the sky but I'm causing Axis losses as well.

[larryfulkerson]

I've been calling the area between the Dvina and Dnepr rivers the landbridge and here's what it looks like now. I'm backing up the
troops with some arty and a couple of HQ's and I think maybe I'm ready here finally. I'm hoping I can hold the front line still for a turn
or two. Buy some time for the troops to get organized west of Moscow where there should be another front line getting ready.