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Up where the Finns work, with the help of some German units I FOUND a hole and rushed some units through it. I think maybe I've cut
the Soviet front lines in this area in two parts. Now if I only had some units to pour through the gap.

Here's the situation near Orsha. I'm creaping up w/ my recon units and I've got some heavy iron following close behind just in case.
As soon as I hit the Soviet lines I'll have to hold things up and refit just a tiny bit. My guys are getting tired and they need a break.

I went to the kitchen to get another cup of coffee and when I came back I saw an incipient disaster. I've gotten overconfident or
something because I've let my recon units get way to far out ahead of the direct combat units and therefore they are w/o support.
I'm going to have make changes.

Here's the south end of the front lines, well not quite all the way south, mostly south of the marshes though. Anyway, I've made my
way around the north end of the Stalin Line and I've swamped the south end of the Stalin Line and so it's surrounded and we're going
to continue the advance if possible.

Oh. I almost forgot........here's how the air war is going at this point in time:

Here's a particularly severe thorn in my side. Dan has gotten some of those Fort things on my beach near Kotka. Their movement
rate is 1 per turn so I'm not especially worried about an invasion but they do need to go. I'm going to see if I can't round up some
Finn infantry to lend to this project.

Here's the front lines in T6 before anybody has moved yet:

Here's a shot of the Gomel area. This is the site of a confluence of rivers and there's plenty of crossings and some of them are not
broken yet. I was all excited getting across two separate rivers in one spot and then I come to another broken bridge and the parade
has to stop. I don't have any engineer units up front so the advance is delayed for a while until I can get that bridge repaired. This
reminds me of the time the Americans almost got to the Grave bridge in "A Bridge Too Far" and were so close they could see it as it
was blown up by the Germans. D'oh.

Here's what Odessa looks like now. I've leaped across the river w/ the help of some engineers and I'm trying to spread out and grab a
foothold on the opposite side of the river.

Here's what it looks like just north of Leningrad. I'm pushing and shoving and the Russians are counterattacking. It's fierce.

I've been doing an unnatural number of airfield strikes. I'm losing some planes but the Soviet planes are falling out of the sky. I'm not
sure I can afford to do this for very long however, 'cause I'm losing planes too.

So um......Dan Phipps sent me an email from his mobile phone that his computer
has crashed and he has to mail it back to Dell to get it worked on so it looks like
this game has been put on hold for at least a couple of weeks. It's now 11/17/2013
23:48 and let's see how long it takes for another turn to be posted.

EDIT: I've heard from Dan and it seems that he can't go on and so this AAR, this game, is at an end.