Problem is, once the Germans are through those units, they are through them and again advance to face the main line where the same issue as always happens.
Karri the difference here is that for me there is no main line, what you see is everything within walking distance, there is no line in the rear being formed behind this, although there is alot of reinforcements waiting to be railed in.
This next picture is the beginning and end of turn 5. The Germans launched a spirited attacked over the river that routed all my defending units. The picture gives you an idea of the desperate fights the Soviet player is dealing with every turn. However I shipped in several new divisions from Leningrad, redeployed some other units I had and used engineers I had ready to entrench them. Then I counterattacked with an armored divisions supported by two fighter units, a bomber unit, a heavy artillery unit and two battleships. The tanks managed to rout an enemy infantry and tank regiment, sending them back to the river and splitting the tank regiment into three.
In an effort to outflank my defenses I have managed to lure him into a swamp, any battles here will quickly drain his supplies and blunt his forward units. Next turn my rail goes up to 12,000 and I can continue to ship reinforcements by boat as well, so I am only getting stronger while he is burning out trying to get across the first major obstacle.
Although I like the idea and think it's supurb. I'd like to see the game that proceeded this way just to see what happens. In the real conflict the Soviets adopted this kind of strategy and the Axis got almost to the surburbs of Moscow before winter '41.
Well, this is my third game using this strategy. The other two were complete victories with the Germans giving up before Mud. I think in one my opponent failed to capture anything other than Minsk. Of course the quality of German players varies greatly, but you can in practice do even better fighting forward against some people.
In WWII the soviets had some differences from my strategy. Instead of fortifying many places they instead attacked everywhere. Their attacks were by units that did not have support and were not coordinated so the attacks failed and then the Germans counter attacked and captured the survivors. I am only attacking a very few places and only with full support from tanks infantry planes and artillery. Everyone else is bunkered down. The soviets also rushed all units in as fast as possible, sometimes rushing units into pockets etc. Units rushing and then attacking with no rest of course did not fare well. I am withdrawing some units when the defenses at either side give way so they cannot by bypassed too easily. A few units made long marches, but most are waiting for rail, and the units that did march in got a chance to rest and dig in before fighting. So there are some definite improvements over Soviet strategy.
