Moderator: Shannon V. OKeets
ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith
I would like to give few tips for the future.
1) river lines don’t half attack strength during surprise impulse, it’s good to time to get cross rivers. Other options are to use offensive chit or attack with low odds.
2) J/A is the longest turn (with fine weather unless rolled 10 for weather twice in a row). Don’t make low odds attacks until late turn. With 6:1 +1 Blitz is safe, you cannot be disorganized. Staying organized is the key when you attack.
3) if you ground strike one unit that is in supply you get +1 to attack. Let’s say defending unit has value 5. If you use 5 strength Stuka for ground support you are guaranteed to get one column better attack but only 50% chance to get +1 with ground strike. Ground striking 2-3 unit stack is much better business.
4) try to get ARM / MECH unit(s) to each attack on clear or woods to get blitz table. Your units stay organized much easier.
5) German goal is to kill USSR units, taking land is less important.
6) usual strategy for USSR is to have strong double stacks in every second hex and retreat every impulse away from the range of Stukas. USSR can stop to river Dnieper, Germany is forced to use O-chit or attack low odds.
ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith
Looking at map attacking 6-3 INF in north near Riga would have been easier and after break through USSR would have been in hurry to block Germans.
In south moving German INF NW behind USSR without attack would forced USSR to react or they all go OOS soon. Also bringing bomber to cover INF would have helped against USSR counter attack.
ORIGINAL: Centuur
There is one golden rule in this game: That is that if you cannot handle the worst result possible, don't attack. The question in the south is therefore: can the Soviets handle the worst result possible if they counterattack and that attack fails?
Usually the side on defense should refrain from counterattacking. It's better to keep you soldiers alive, retreat and fight another day. Also take into account the victory conditions of Barbarossa. Can the Soviets trade space for time or is the situation that desperate that you have to stay and fight? Winter is coming and if the Soviet army is in a reasonable shape when bad weather arrives, things are looking good for them. However, if your units are eliminated during the good weather turns, the German panzerdivisions will keep moving during blizzards and snow too, if there are only empty hexes in front of them...
Finally there's the position of the short range Luftwaffe Stuka's which is also important. If you move the Soviet army out of reach of the flying artillery, you gain valuable time...
Here is the trick: Lvov is Polish city, not Russian [;)] units around Lvov take supply from HQ. And HQ needs rail line to some USSR city.ORIGINAL: Chocolino
ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith
Looking at map attacking 6-3 INF in north near Riga would have been easier and after break through USSR would have been in hurry to block Germans.
In south moving German INF NW behind USSR without attack would forced USSR to react or they all go OOS soon. Also bringing bomber to cover INF would have helped against USSR counter attack.
Re south: When deciding whether to cut off the Russians around Lvov I was looking at the supply rules last night and could find only that "any unconquered home city is a primary supply source". I understand "any" to mean that the city itself can be isolated from the rest of Russia. So if the Germans surround Lvov plus some units near it, the Russians seem to still be able to get supply form Lvov. That would mean that I have to conquer Lvov as well which is strongly defended. But perhaps I have (again) overlooked something crucial here.
