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*evil swedish war*

6/22/41

Turn 1

Some minor setbacks when russian 6th mech corps couldn´t be surrounded at Biyalisto. The main targets of this first turn is to surround russian 3, 11, 6, 15, 4, and 8 mech corps to force them to surrender. The result was mixed, a decent opening.


FINISH FRONT;
Standard advance along the railroad.


NORTH;
Riga falls and around 80 000 russians with almost 400 guns surrender.


CENTER;
6th mech corps retreats from Bialystok to fight another day, dammit! 14th mech corps surrender with 21 000 men and 500 tanks. Brest-Litovsk and Vilna falls.


SOUTH;
Tarnopol falls and 2 russian mech corps is out of supply in and around Lvov. 22nd mech corps surrenders at the battle of Brody losing 23560 men with 592 AFV. In the Lvov-pocket 8th russian corps surrender with 41490 men.

At the rumanian front panzers are massing for attack, while axis forces conquers Bessarabia.


Total soviet losses

8208 squads
2107 AFV
2770 Guns
7357 Aircraft

*New evil swedish war*

6/22/41

Turn 1

Josan let me replay the first turn while he is learning the pbem-program. I made some mistakes last time so this time I´ve tried to do new variation on the opening move. A problem facing a player with Josans reputation is that you may get to cautious or over-ambitious. We will see how this turned out, initial russian casualties are great. But as I´m rather new to pbem, I´m far away from sure this is the best first move.


FINISH FRONT;
19th russian corps attacked along the railroad forcing it to retreat.


NORTH;
Massive air attacks against Leningrad Fronts strong air-fleet. Riga falls and 3rd mech corps in Kaunas surrounded. 82 000 and 480 guns are taken prisoners.


CENTER;
West Front shatters due to the immense pressure. Vilna, Biyalistok and Brest-Litovsk(thank god!) falls. Russian 11th mech corps surrounded. 6th and 14th mech corps surrender; 46 000 men and 1445 tanks are captured.


SOUTH;
Lvov-pocket squeezed resulting in 15th, 4th and 8th russian mech corps out of supply. Tarnopol falls. 22nd mech corps, 8th and 27th infantry corps surrender totaling 106 000 men, 576 guns and 592 tanks.

In the south Bessarabia is overrunned.


Total losses
German - Soviet

318 / 9627 squads
56 / 2364 AFV
7 / 3425 guns
225 / 7715 Aircraft


It´s gonna be a hell of a battle this one.

josan's has many swords to cut any players spirits to shreds along with his armies.
BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell me about it Loveman.

Loveman, I´ve only read what Lorenzo posted about Josans tactics, can you tell me something more. He seems good at cuting off supply lines and to use the red airforce properly. What else?

Sounds like he's won already.... <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

[ December 28, 2001: Message edited by: Lokioftheaesir ]</p>

The perfidious attack of this evil swedish will have its revenge!!!

The heavy losses inflicted by the German Army to our troops force Stalin to declare a general withdrawal. The VVS seriously damaged.

Stalin has ordered build news lines of defense!!!

Workers of the world! Unite We Win! Enlist now to face the evil and ugly Fuhrer of the germans, Kuniworth the demon incarnate.

A las barricadas!!!!! (the scream of a spanish volunteer remembering the heroic defense of Madrid against the fascist dogs) <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

josans tactics , eekkk!!!!!!!!!
he defends vyzama and tula areas in the centre , beware fighters in rvkg .
in the north he defends approaches to demyansk and lenningrad!
in the south he runs away.
he does not stand and fight.
best advice ( i havent won against him yet) , is to head for lenningrad and moscow.
bomb his factories ?

6/29/41

Turn 2

Advance continues. The red airforce has withdrawn, soviet frontline is annihilated. The remnants shows up as the infamous dummy-units ready to cut supply.


FINISH FRONT;
Mannerheim reaches the gates of Leningrad on the old finish-russian border. All russian forces have withdrawn from this sector.


NORTH;
The remnants of Baltic Front attacked. 36th and 86th russian corps shatter and 11th corps surrender with 39 000 men. 16th army marches in to Kaunas, and 3rd russian mech corps surrender with 26 000 men and 700 tanks. Meanwhile 4th panzer army widens the Dvina-bridgehead around Riga.


CENTER; Minsk and Daugavpils falls. 11th mech surrenders with 22500 men and almost 300 tanks. 2 dummy units shatter, a third retreats.


SOUTH;
6th, 4th mech and 8th mech corps surrender as Lvov-pocket is cleared; in total about 80 000 men, 420 guns and 1470 tanks is captured. The bessarabian panzer-forces swungs north to cut off at least 3 russian units(15th mech, 13, 17).

Further south 17th army forces the surrender of 49th russian corps(41 500 men).


Total losses

german-soviet
391 / 13159 squads
68 / 4834 AFV
8 / 4686 Guns
232 / 7715 Aircraft

Originally posted by loveman:
josans tactics , eekkk!!!!!!!!!
bomb his factories ?

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Ok, but what makes him so much better than all you others?

Bombing of factories is certainly a useful strategy, especially with the VVS gone. However results are often mixed and luftwaffe casualties high. Besides that keeping luftwaffe strong might be necessary to help shatter dummy units in ground support missions. We´ll see...

Originally posted by Kuniworth:

Ok, but what makes him so much better than all you others?

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Kuniworth

He's got Mojo. And we are just nerds. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Nick

PS. You were joking.........right?

7/6/41

Turn 3

Heavy fighting in the south. The red airforce is surely missed by soviet army-commanders as their forces are beeing pounded mercyless. The enemy is massing forces and shock-armies around Kiev.


FINISH FRONT;
4th finish corps succesfully bombs the russian 1st army located in northern Leningrad, inflicting 2000 casualties. Mannerheims forces begins to fortify positions around Leningrad and near Viipuri.

Konev in charge of the russian defence.

NORTH;
Intense bombing of tank-formations near Leningrad. 4th pz army drives to the gates of Pskov. Little resistance, 1 dummy shattered.


CENTER;
Panzers continue to surge forward. No resistance visual, 2 dummy units surrounded. Otherwise quiet here.


SOUTH;
The russian forces cut off south of Lvov was infact 4 armies(russian formation changed name from corps to armies). 3 of them surrender in total 90 000 men with 450 guns and 590 tanks. 40th army holds against attacks made by the rumanians 3rd army.

1st Pz army strikes against the city of Kiev. The attack begins after that the whole Luftwaffe bombed the strong russian formations. 4 dummys shatters, 1 retreats but the attack against Kiev itself fails as Zhukov defendes brilliantly.

In the south, Uman area is cut off and the rumanians marches in to the abandon city of Odessa.


total losses;

german - soviet

squads 546 / 15730
AFV 108 / 5654
guns 23 / 5477
Aircraft 261 / 7719

7/13/41

Turn 4

Successful turn in all, but I seriously starting to doubt if I´m attacking right with the panzers. Casualties are rising...


FINISH FRONT;
More artillery bombardment of Leningrad garrison.


NORTH;
Pskov falls and 4th pz are rushing forward. 2 dummy units surrender. Not much action, driving deep may very well cause a cut of the supply lines, but I´ve gotta push hard now. RVGK-hq visible near Demyansk cv 6(fighters??)!!!


CENTER;
Vitebsk, Mogilev and Gomel falls, very little resistance. 5 dummy units shatter. Vasilevskii in charge of russian defence.


SOUTH;
The whole Luftwaffe continues to pound the 2nd shock army in Kiev. a lot of Mig 3:s shows up and the battle in the air ends with even casualties. 1st pz army then strikes with all its panzer-korps towards the garrison forcing it to retreat and capturing the city. It however takes 7(!) attacks and above all Stalin taking command from Zhukov to achieve vitory. Russian anti-tank guns wipes out around 70 german panzers 3#2%4&**/+!!!!
But the worst beeing that no advance were made in to the city(as far as I could see) so the russian can retake it next turn. F*ck, f*ck, f*ck!

Never again I use panzers to take fortified cities. crossing the dniepr with panzers is out of the question as the russian army is to strong here....

Further south 2 dummy units shatter and Uman falls. Unfortunately no russian units in the pocket. Next stop Dniepr...?

Near Lvov the rumanians force 40th army to surrender 30 000 men.


Total losses

german - soviet

819 / 17618 squads
177 / 5824 AFV
67 / 5995 Guns
435 / 8011 aircraft

Hitler thinks the war is won, Fieldmarschall Kuniworth think the Fuhrer should follow von Rundstedts advice and withdraw to orginal borders.

7/20/41

Turn 5 -

1 month in to the war, the german advance continues all along the front. The german infantry have seen no action at all, panzers are sweeping forward. Russian defence is consisting mostly of dummy units. The german panzers are ordered to crush every visible dummy to avoid cut in supply. It´s like crushing egg-shells with a sledgehammer.


FINISH;
Bombardment continues of Leningrad. 3000 russian dies.

NORTH;
2 dummy units shatter. 56th pz korps under Manstein was last turn cut off in the demyansk-crossing and now restores supplylines. Reinhardt´s 41st pz advance to 40 miles outside Leningrad. Estonia isolated.


CENTER;
The enemy moved up strong formations to the center. 2nd shock army last seen in Kiev is pushed out of Smolensk. Bryansk also falls along with Velikiye Luki. 7 dummy units destroyed.


SOUTH;
Kiev-defence evacuated(why??) so 1st pz army easily captures the city and crosses the dniepr.
In the south two pz korps stumbles in to a unit in Dnepropetrovsk and forcing it to retreat to capture the city.

4 dummys annihilated in the south.


total losses after 1 month

906 / 19357 squads
203 / 6010 AFV
90 / 6505 Guns
469 / 8031 aircraft

7/27/41

Turn 6 - Victorious landoperation, but the red airforce is showing presence. I have no clue where the VVS is stationed. Could be a problem in the near future.


FINISH FRONT;
A finish korps withdraws from Leningrad due to supply-problems.

NORTH;
4th pz reaches Leningrad, 18th and 16th army will reach the cities defencelines next week. 56th pz korps was last russian turn yet again surrounded and supplylines now cleared by infantry. The enemy is massing 20-25 armies(more???) between Leningrad and Demyansk.


CENTER;
Victory! 2nd and 3rd panzer armies secures the area between Smolensk-Bryansk. The russian loses 100 000 men in casualties and 90 000 surrenders. 500 tanks captured, around 300 destroyed. Russian 62nd army(under Chuikov - the hero of Stalingrad), 12 army, 65th army, 3rd shock and 4th shock army exists no more. Battle of Moscow is slowly enveloping...

2 dummies destroyed. Minor setback when a dummy withstand an odds of 1113-1 and retreats. Unbeliavable...

The advance around Velikiye Luki very slow because of the threat from the infantry-hordes near Demyansk. German infantry of the 9th army is unfortunately to far away to attack on a broad front.


SOUTH;
Josan succesfully stationed strong troops around Dnepropetrovsk to stop any panzer-advance against Stalino until 11th army catches up. A pz korps anyway breaksthrough to aid in 1st pz armys advance on Kharov. 1st pz army meanwhile is seemingly facing no resistance on the russian steppes, and spreads out.

In the south 4th rumanian army crosses in to the crimean penninsula.

Hitler are ordering fortification to be built in key-positions if the campaign drags out to winter.

total losses

german - soviet

1130 / 24319 squads
340 / 7093 AFV
175 / 8541 Guns
556 / 8270 Aircraft

The evil swedish general herr Kuniworth are probing to be a very tough german player.

The attempt to place a seriously line of defense around Smolensk has been unsuccesful. One more time, the Luftwaffe was decisive.

Fresh troops are now waiting the germans in the Vyazma second line of defense... <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

In the North the initial attacks from the 4pz Army to the soviet first line of defense around Leningrad has been repulsed but seem Manstein Pz Korps have now supply. A heavy attack is expected but where? in Demyansk or directly to Leningrad? Russian reinforcements from the South has been placed in the sector.

In the South the main line of defense is now in Stalino. The VVS is striking the front. A pz korps from AGS is seriousy disrupted by soviet pilot bombers. His experience in combat are rising.

The Victory is our. Long live Stalin!!!!

<img src="frown.gif" border="0">

A computer-virus has hampered the german war-effort. Fieldmarschall Kuniworth got his harddrive deleted and the campaign in the east is halted. Russian sabotage is suspected, but the military intelligence however find no links to the mighty josan.

We will see when the campaign will continue.

Stalin is waiting the evil swedish Kuniworth <img src="cool.gif" border="0">