RE: 1.04.36 KLilly vs Fulkerson T7

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T102 OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production:

[paullus99]

Larry - have you starting putting together longer-term offensive strategies yet? Attacking for the sake of attacking is one thing (bleed your opponent), but you need to have some coherent objectives for what you need to accomplish. It seems that you have been very reactive in your thinking throughout the campaign - you need to start thinking six or seven turns ahead.

[larryfulkerson]

Um......I'm just playing to have fun.  And KLilly and I are coming up on the '43 Axis offensive season.  I've been buying Rifle Divisions and building Rifle Corps with them so I have a couple dozen of them now.  There's still some weak spots in my front lines and KLilly is going to seriously take advantage of them.  He will break through my lines, make a serious pocket, kill lots of my guys and then after the offensive season it's Red Tide time.  Red Tide is when I open the age of attacking wide open.  Like I'm doing now but with more people.  I would like to reduce the front lines by taking back the south and then force the Axis against the coastal areas and destroy them.  Part of my strategy involves gaining air superiority eventually.  I'm still loosing more than he is in the air and that's got to reverse if I'm going to win.   Long story short.......I have no idea what's going to happen. 

Here's the T103 front lines without any recon and before any Soviet movement:

[larryfulkerson]

The Axis fast movers appear when I applied some recon to the south. I assume they are the Axis fast movers.....they aren't showing up at the front lines anywhere so that's probably what they are.

[larryfulkerson]

I did some unit bombing, some deliberate attacks, etc. but no hexes changed hands. Not much happened this turn. Here's the OOB,
losses, and production:

[larryfulkerson]

T104: His units CV is getting bigger and bigger and mine aren't so much. It's June now and pretty soon now KLilly is going to go on
the offensive.

[larryfulkerson]

I did a bunch of attacking but no hexes changed hands that I remember right now. Here's the oob, losses, destroyed units,
and production:

[larryfulkerson]

T105: KLilly has a breakthrough of magnificant proportions.

[larryfulkerson]

I pulled everybody back to fix the problem. I think he'll just breakthrough it again though so I need to rail in some reinforcements.

[larryfulkerson]

There was some industry at Stalingrad that I thought might best be moved out.

[larryfulkerson]

At Saratov was some industry that I felt needed to be moved out as well.

[randallw]

Be careful of having 3 stack units up front; if the hex behind it has at least one unit then something in the stack will rout instead of retreat.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: randallw
Be careful of having 3 stack units up front; if the hex behind it has at least one unit then something in the stack will rout instead of retreat.

I did not know that. Thanks for sharing. It makes sense when I think about it though.

[larryfulkerson]

T106: Here's the front lines before any recon or movement:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my moves. The rest of the map is the same.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the OOB, losses, destroyed units, and production:

[randallw]

What is your total of rifle divisions, with the corps included in the count ( as 3 divs of course )?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: randallw
What is your total of rifle divisions, with the corps included in the count ( as 3 divs of course )?

Lemme post a picture of the CR report with that number on it. First I gotta look it up. I'll edit this post with the number

EDIT: It looks lilke there's a total of 340 rifle divisions plus rifle corps included.

[larryfulkerson]

T107: Here's what the south looks like now.

[larryfulkerson]

Mud in the center section this turn. That might make it hard to recover from this breakout, but on the other hand it hinders the progress of the Axis advance too so....