dak41_vs_ketza

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Well here it goes my first AAR. I saw Ketza posted a server game recently and I jumped at it to have second bite at the Apple. Ketza was my first server game opponent and I was pretty well clueless on alot things about WITE. So this kind of a reality check for me to see how bad I still am

so away we go dak41 (axis) versus ketza (soviets)

Pre-Turn1 activites:
Set Air Doctrine
Changed all FB to Bombers.
Changed all NM aircraft to DM.

Axis Turn1
Recon all Airfields.Actually maxed out/used all my recon missions in an attempt to draw out some of his fighters before I bombed his airfields.
Bombed his airfields concetrating on ones with large numeber of fighters.

Combat

I decided to send the 18th army up the Baltic coast.
4th Panzer Group went in the direction of Riga and halfway around the pocket forming in Lithuania.
16th Army has blown a hole open to Kaunas and Vilinius.
9th Army mans the North side of Bialystok pocket and lines the south side of the kaunas gap.
3rd Panzer group sends one corps to like up with 4th Panzer and the rest head to Minsk to link up with 2nd Panzer Group.
4th Army mans the sothern side of the Bilaystok pocket
Brest-Litovsk has assaulted and taken on the first turn to clear the way for 2nd panzer groups armor,
17th Army pushes toward LVOV and helps man widen a panzer corredor south of Kovel.
6th Army helps in the Kovel Pocket.
1st Panzer group opts for a pocket around Kovel. Running down to the Rumanian border may make a bigger pocket, but it is a illusion, it just creates a leaky pocket that has to keep being resealed.

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AGN

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AGC_1_1

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AGC_1_2

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AGS_1

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Air Doctrine

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Air Losses

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Destroyed units

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Ground Losses

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Game Options

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Turn2. In the Baltic 4th Panzer Group reaches Parnu, bypassing Riga to be mopped up by the 18th army. The pocket in Lithuania was able to link up with the outside world so the Germans had to reseal the pocket and will have to wait till turn3 to liquidate the pocket.

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Turn2: AGC. The Bialystok pocket is slowly squeezed in. 3rd Panzer Group crosses the Dvina on the way to Vitebsk.The smaller pocket in Belarussia is wiped out. 2nd Panzer Group crosses the Berezina near the marshes. Air recon indicates the Soviets are manning the old Stalin line from Pskov to the marshes.

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Turn2: AGS. The Pocket around Kovel is cleared. The 4th Panzer group drives to Chernovsky. Trapping some reguard units along the Carpathians. The Soviets have retreated and formed a defense in depth.

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Soviet losses approach half a million.

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Airlosses, soviet are small, appears he has sent most planes to his national reserve.

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Turn 2, Soviets lose 35 units, the Germans disband the security HQ's releasing 30,000 man for frontline service.

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Turn2: Air Doctrine.

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Turn3: Looks like Soviets are retreating fast into their hinterland.

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Turn3: AGC, reducing pockets, waiting for the infantry to catch up.

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AGS:Soviet line moves back, 1st Panzer group drives south cutting off some rearguards.