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The story of a 41 campaign between TDV (soviets) and Tom1939 (germans)

1941. 06. 22.

The massive soviet preparations for an all out attack on germany forced the heer to counterstrike the mighty red army, before its too late. God save germany!

Losses

Axis/Soviet

627/8483
183/2501
53/3106
197/5843

O.K.H.

u.i: this must have been one of my worst first turns with the germans in 41. Failed attacks, bad coordination etc. I'm realy rusty,this will not go too well like this.

1941. 06. 29.
Clear

We rescued our cut of comrades, and pressed on to the east after the retreating aggresors. Red air force only pulled back a bit, but did not left the battlefield.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

155/3059
37/1409
18/1042
108/1894

O.K.H.

p.s: rail conversion in the middle and in the north cut, one week lost already. This will be a long one if I survive the winter:(

Interesting.....keep them coming.

1941. july 6.
Clear

This week the werhmacht held its annual partisan hunting party. This partisans look like soviet mechanised units, but they have extremely low combat power with devastating railcutting abilities. The Luftwaffe bombed them to ensure their shattering. A lot of them were destroyed, but there must be some more. Against soviet accusation we claim that there were no prisoners shot (there just were no prisoners:)).

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

121/2215
9/91
22/902
38/131

O.K.H.

1941. july 13.
Clear

We hunted down some more motorized parisans and closed in on a soviet defensive line before kiev, smolensk. Our air forces made probing air attacks to judge their strength. They are very strong sadly.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

18/1089
0/92
2/394
21/3

O.K.H.

1941. july 20.
Clear

In the north and south our troops closed in on the soviet line. With massive air and panzer support we achieved a little breakthrough, and now we have 2 hex deep bridgehead in the soviet defence line near smolensk. Our losses are frightenig, those soviet peasants in the opposing shock army fought like devils. Sadly soviet snipers shot down the officer who kept the losses statistics in the centre, so there are no losses report this week.

O.K.H.

1941. july 27.

Clear

Another bloody breakthrough in the centre, after the soviet withdrew a bit after last week. This time a few armies are cut off, but the escape route is open.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

399/1672
156/56
47/753
48/10

O.K.H.

1941. 08. 03.
Clear

In the centre 2 normal and 1 shock army surrendered as we strengthened our bridgehead near smolensk. In the south we are preparing for assaulting through that big water...

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

201/5148
58/457
10/1665
29/0

O.K.H.

1941. 08. 10.
Clear

German panzers rolled in some soviet towns (Demyansk, Novogorod, Dnepropetrovsk), some were encircled (Smolensk, Velikije Luki). Sadly no prisoners this week.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

189/1109
71/98
16/534
98/215

O.K.H.

1941. 08. 17.
Clear

The defenders of Kiev throw back several of our assaults, laughing in our face despite great numerical disadvantage. I all other fronts our troops consolidated positions. Our officers see fear in the eye of the simple soldaten. They dont belive the official line that the red army is crushed. The red air force is back, airfields carefully out of german fighters range, they dare to challenge our bombing raids.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

583/1522
82/80
58/458
131/448

O.K.H.

1941. 08. 24.
Clear

Ignoring great losses our panzers bullied they way east in the centre. Smolensk were captured, 2 defendig soviet armies destroyed. We took Kiev and Kharkov in the south.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

331/3548
194/443
92/993
85/292

O.K.H.

1941. 08. 31.

Operation "All or nothing" has started. After showing commitment to go to moscow to diverse enemy attention our panzers went south. In the south our panzers in Kharkow went north. Kursk and Orel was captured. In the North a panzer korps cut the rail line behind Tikhivin (he should rest in peace in a few weeks). This operations should have cut quite a big part of the red army. Our panzers are in grave danger though, the month of september will be the mosth important month of this war.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

105/438
59/101
15/254
130/556

O.K.H.

1941. 09. 07.
Clear

4 or 5 panzer korpses were cut of in the orel area... The encirclement were opened, bu a lot of soviet armies can now escape. The northern panzers cutting supply to lenningrad were air supplied in a huge air battle. In the south 2 soviet armies surrendered.

Losses this week:

Axis/soviet

309/4041
90/152
21/152
305/1010

O.K.H.

Sounds like he's retreating as much as possible. You've got a few weeks of decent weather left....

Now its all about causing damage to him as his loses were minimal so long. If he can escape with his troops winter will be hell.

Don't forget about your VC's.

VC? What is that? Maybe I forgot too much of this game:)

1941. 09. 14.
Clear

In the south we begun to destroy the soviet armies who were cut off. Only about half of the attacks suceeded (tired panzers, damn strong soviet armies). The north is a big mess, everybody cuttin everybodies supply all the time... The defenders of Lenningrad hold the city strongly with 0 supply, many german soliders died there this week.

Losses this week:

Axis/Soviet

650/5926
83/1886
83/2088
46/54

O.K.H.

ORIGINAL: Tom1939

VC? What is that? Maybe I forgot too much of this game:)

Sorry, VC=Victory Conditions. There is a panel you can bring up that shows you how to win. Basically , you need to take certain cities to add up to 5 VP's I think. Moscow is worth 3 VP's, there is about 5 other cities each worth 1 I think.