Rodina Struggle (Morvael vs Cpt Flam)

[morvael]

Once the Soviet defensed were unhinged, there was always a place to attack with no forts. I couldn't resist temptation and have ran down my motorized troops to 30% TOE and beyond

[cpt flam]

not much to tell
mud except on European part
so panzers advance

[Icier]

It will take all summer to get them back to 50%. Its a pity that we cant direct all reinforcements to
specific units.

[cpt flam]

mud in central russia give me problems
Aleksei Grechkin (46 Army) is promoted Général-Leitenant
a new push by panzers bypassing part of my def

[cpt flam]

part of Crimea is cut-off

[cpt flam]

Voronezh is threaten and first line
losses are light in my turn
3.25k for 6.45k of men
80 vs 140 Art

[cpt flam]

it's a pity all this mud
Crimea is doomed for now[&o]

[morvael]

ORIGINAL: Ice

It will take all summer to get them back to 50%. Its a pity that we cant direct all reinforcements to
specific units.

Three turns on refit resulted in one motorized division go from 40% to 70%, so that's not bad. It's just hard to go above the army average %, because of built-in starvation prevention.

[morvael]

ORIGINAL: cpt flam
a new push by panzers bypassing part of my def

Hard to resist going the path of least resistance when I see hexes with zero forts and clear terran versus four hexes deep lines of level 2 forts in good terrain [:)]

ORIGINAL: cpt flam
Voronezh is threaten and first line

A few MPs short to cut off those troops between Kursk and Belgorod... One of many instances to come [:(] Mostly due to the fact that closing encirclement would require breaking main line of resistance with level 2 forts and for that lone panzer or motorized divs are too weak, while a huge number of infantry is tied by the Orel pocket. I'm short on troops to cover rapidly expanding frontlines.

ORIGINAL: cpt flam
Crimea is doomed for now

On the first turn of Crimea operation I thought it will be a disaster, because of the one panzer corps sent away to help near Orel. But it turned out to be successful. Panzers are probing into Taman peninsula, despite shortage of infantry to cover their rear and deal with remaining Soviet units. If I remember well, that one group on the shores of Azov put up quite a fight (multiple defensive wins) and I had to send panzers to finally destroy them.

[cpt flam]

i received 5,6 and 7 Guard Army (two of these in Orel pocket)
in the same time more troops get trapped by faster units [&:]
german mountain corp arrive near Sevastopol

[cpt flam]

Voronezh has fallen
my attacks are pathetics
orel pocket is loosing units

[cpt flam]

Sevastopol is keeping the frontline
Kerch isthmus is passed

[cpt flam]

a lot to tell this week
pocket is cleared except 2 guard rifle div in Orel
G Leitenant Vasily Kuznetsov (3 army) is promoted G Polkovnik
GL Leonid Govorov (30 army) moral increased to 8 (Kalinin sector)
GL Andrei Eremenko (34 army) mech increased to 6 (Voroshilovgrad sector)
a new fall back in the south

[cpt flam]

we got 6 new rifle guards div (61 now)
kerch straight is largely passed
Sevastopol continue the fight

[morvael]

Sign of poor leadership on German side: panzers in the mud, penetration without encirclement. Always a few MPs short to fully execute a plan. But this has to be done to keep up momentum and roll the flank, giving them no time to dig in.

[cpt flam]

GL Ivan Galanin (1 Guard Army) is promoted Général Polkovnik
Guard rifle XX move to 92

[cpt flam]

that's a great panzer mass
losses from my turn
2 560 k vs 3 860 troopers
70 for 75 ART
136 vs 204 Airplanes

[cpt flam]

another retreat to keep some strength
losses from my turn
520 vs 1 010 men
17 for 26 ART
147 vs 131 Aircraft

[cpt flam]

in the south
Novorosiysk falled

[morvael]

Very important target, to switch supply from Kerch which is behind the straits and swamps.