Frozen frogs! Stef78 (axis) Stelteck (Russia) - Stelteck welcome

[STEF78]

ORIGINAL: BrianG

That was a nice late war rr cut.

Partisans are very active in 1944. at least 3 or 4 railroads cut every week

Also, attacking Leningrad with 5000 guns. Did he really think he would win or just checking out what would happen for fun.

You cannot take such a city on the first assault. The deal is to loose men in order to weaken the fort level

[Mamluke]

attacking an Heavy Urban hex sure is an nightmare...
a Finish Infantry battalion, an freaking Infantry Battalion, no more then 800 to 900 men had as much CV as a mother### rifle corps of 30 000 men!

and over a 1000 CV per Infantry division? those aren't even that good!

[STEF78]

Turn 158, 22th june 1944

View of the frontline after my moves. Low intensity week of fights, mainly in the blue circles. Near Pskov, Stelteck was hunting my security regiments.

Russian OOB is still growing.

We will fight behind the Dniepr!

[BrianG]

I see 23 rr cuts. Maybe partisans should up their game earlier in the war.

[ericv]

I count 28 railcuts. The missing 5 are probably 2 in territory conquered by the russians se of welikije luki, and 3 hidden amongst a lot of recon icons east of kiev

[BrianG]

I count 28 railcuts. The missing 5 are probably 2 in territory conquered by the russians se of welikije luki, and 3 hidden amongst a lot of recon icons east of kiev

Grounds for a promotion!

[STEF78]

Turn 159, 29th june 1944

Heavy fights on the frontline, more than 1200 russian AFV destroyed . Counterattacks in front of Kiev. Zaporozhe and Leningrad strongly held. Look at all these tank corps in front of Vitebsk...

[SparkleyTits]

The manpower loss is looking like a hard knock but time and ground is definitely gonna make up for that without a disaster or two

Also constantly blown away by the eye candy you bring to an AAR Stef

Keep up the good work!

[STEF78]

ORIGINAL: SparkleyTits

The manpower loss is looking like a hard knock but time and ground is definitely gonna make up for that without a disaster or two

I'm in good shape and sill have some ground to trade but WITE is a snowball game. Maybe I can afford a significant encirclement and still win the game but it would be boring to run to the west and build a fortress around Berlin. I will try to use the ground advantages (swamp, forest, river, mountain) and retreat as slow as possible.

I have retreated faster in the earlier turn of clear weather in order not to be facing 30 tank corps with 50 Mp's. Now it's time to fight.

But as already written, I'm really concerned with all these tank corps in front of Vitebsk.

Also constantly blown away by the eye candy you bring to an AAR Stef

Keep up the good work!

Thanks [;)]

[STEF78]

A view of the evolution of both OOB.

Raw number are more and more in favor of the reds but also average quality is closer. Russian NM is 56 while german NM is now only 63....

"It's a cruel, cruel summer"

[chaos45]

Soviet artillery is finally to the point of being decisive if he uses in the right places. Short of something very bad happening you should have the game--as in make the Soviets not take Berlin at the historical time.

[Mamluke]

Amazing front picture! shows us everything while giving a nice over look at the hot spots, thank you so much for your work on the AAR stef!

it seams the Smolensk land bridge will became the 1943 Kursk but in reverse! with majority of armor concentrated in like 10-15 hexes, the battles here will be amazing no doubt.

hope you don't mind covering the Leningrad battle with some detail from now on as well? it's so rare(for good reason) to see Urban combat in action, just too see what the Soviets need to bring to breach the stale mate.

[STEF78]

ORIGINAL: Mamluke

Amazing front picture! shows us everything while giving a nice over look at the hot spots, thank you so much for your work on the AAR stef!

Thanks!

it seams the Smolensk land bridge will became the 1943 Kursk but in reverse! with majority of armor concentrated in like 10-15 hexes, the battles here will be amazing no doubt.

We are 4 turns ahead the AAR... it will be hot!

hope you don't mind covering the Leningrad battle with some detail from now on as well? it's so rare(for good reason) to see Urban combat in action, just too see what the Soviets need to bring to breach the stale mate.

Leningrad is a major victory location. I will show everything significant happening there...

[STEF78]

Turn 160, 6th july 1944

As scheduled, Vitebsk's area is suffering the major assault



Some heavy counterattacks are launched to restore the frontline



Another problem is appearing near Gomel



Pzd acting ad firemen as usual



Some defensive fights in front of Kiev



And the eastern bank of lower Dniepr is almost cleared.



The losses... 1400 russian AFV destroyed...

[Mamluke]

speaking of massive tank Loses, how are your own pools of tanks? doing fine?

and Ouch! such heavy loses right off July, many KIA even! this will be a bloody summer, even worse then the 1943 winter!

in regards to the large river lines, Stef, are you felling confident in holding it for months?

[BrianG]

where are his guard tank armies. I see 15 tank armies?

[STEF78]

ORIGINAL: Mamluke

speaking of massive tank Loses, how are your own pools of tanks? doing fine?

I receive currenttly some Pz brigades. My tank pool is fine. Infantry is heavily suffering.

I will post OOB later

and Ouch! such heavy loses right off July, many KIA even! this will be a bloody summer, even worse then the 1943 winter!

unsustainable.... some inf divs are now below 10k men

in regards to the large river lines, Stef, are you felling confident in holding it for months?

At the moment I'm pretty confident South of Kiev, rather confident in the baltic states and in the marshes. Not confident at all in the center...

[STEF78]

ORIGINAL: BrianG

where are his guard tank armies. I see 15 tank armies?

I will let Stelteck answer more accuratly.
I see from recon
- 3/5 tank/mech corps in the baltic states
- at least 18 tank/mech corps in the center (Vitebsk/Gomel)
- at least 9 tank/mech corps near Kiev (mostly in front of Cherkassy)

and lots of Cav corps everywhere

[chaos45]

can you disband any junk german elements to re-man your infantry divisions....you should be needing less security divisions now.....and im sure your managing your ToE on your artillery and construction engineer units to lower levels to save manpower for infantry. The construction BN are an easy pool of manpower if you still have them

[Mamluke]

ORIGINAL: chaos45

can you disband any junk german elements to re-man your infantry divisions....you should be needing less security divisions now.....and im sure your managing your ToE on your artillery and construction engineer units to lower levels to save manpower for infantry. The construction BN are an easy pool of manpower if you still have them

the Construction units seam like the easy ones to disband, there is approximately 200 000 German manpower in construction units and that is 1941 alone!

maybe keep like 10 or 20 batt. just in case.