Defending The Reich

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Defending The Reich

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Hi

Well most of my AAR's have been where Germany is in the leading position to defeat Russia and while I am preparing a new 41 invasion I thought I would see how I would go being on the back foot for a change.
So I have decided to play The Vistula Campaign and try to defend Germany from the Russian hordes !

The setup

The designer recommends that it should be challenging level when playing as The Axis however I think I will start off with normal for the time being, I will monitor the AI after each turns if it gets easy I will up the levels but given the size of the Soviet strength and the Axis forces state I think they will smash through my defences quite easily and steam roll The Axis to Berlin or get bogged down, either way it could end up being quite a boring AAR so I will try to make it interesting and fun as best I can being its a PVE game.

Air War : will be simple, I have no experience of managing the Air War and certainly for this campaign I have no need to I cant see the Luftwaffe in any position to offer effective resistance even if I had some idea.

I will start with the open Soviet operations since they get to attack first then begin the defence of the Reich, so here goes as this could end by turn 13.


Prologue

Jan 20th 1945

With the Baltic Fronts successfully trapping Army Group North in the Kurland Peninsula Lithuania isolating it from Germany's main defence line in East Prussia the Red Army turns its attention back to Poland.
After stopping at the gates of Warsaw in August the Soviets now prepare to launch large scale operations in the Warsaw, Krakow and East Prussia regions in the south the Soviets prepare there forces in Slovakia and the Transdanube regions.


Kurland


DR AGN  Sov 1.jpg
DR AGN Sov 1.jpg (1.09 MiB) Viewed 89 times




Vistula–Oder offensive


DR AGC Sov.jpg
DR AGC Sov.jpg (1.22 MiB) Viewed 89 times


DR AGC Sov 1a.jpg
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DR OOB Sov 1.jpg
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Re: Defending The Reich

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Prologue : Soviet Offensives
Jan 20th 1945

Budapest offensive


DR Army Group A Sov 1.jpg
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DR AGS Sov 1.jpg
DR AGS Sov 1.jpg (1.15 MiB) Viewed 85 times
DR Ground Losses Sov 1.jpg
DR Ground Losses Sov 1.jpg (49.83 KiB) Viewed 85 times
DR Air losses Sov 1.jpg
DR Air losses Sov 1.jpg (63.09 KiB) Viewed 85 times

Axis Forces suffer tremendous losses as they fall back into Germany.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5lCNz ... WL&index=3

The Soviet Offensive begins !
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