FITE Da_Huge_D vs Fulkerson

[larryfulkerson]

Turn 1 took me about 24 hours to produce. Good thing Dave ( Da_Huge_D ) is patient. I got about 6 rounds and the last round I entrenched everybody. My losses were higher than I thought they would be but that may be because I'm in a hurry to get to the east and didn't take care to concentrate on building flanking attacks and pre-attack bombardments and the like. The air war went well and I won't have to worry about the Soviet air force for a few turns. I haven't decided on a strategy yet...Dave and I just started this bad boy yesterday and I haven't done a map study or anything like that yet. Mostly I'm just pushing units outward from their start positions. After playtesting D21 for so long playing FITE again seems like coming home. Okay, I admit it, FITE is my favorite scenario even though it takes months to complete and there are an unweildy number of units to push around. It has to be that big though since it models the worlds largest battle and pits the best army in the world against the biggest army in the world. Dave tells me he can produce about 7 turns per week. I'm not sure I can keep up with his pace but we'll see. Overall, I think this turn went well. You can find my turn 1 AAR at this url:

http://www.filedropper.com/dahdturn1

EDIT:
Hey you guys....I've grouped the first 20 AARs into a document that can give you instant access to any one of the first twenty turn AARs. You no longer have to search through page after page of forum posts to find the link and download each one separately. This 1 through 20 AAR group document is about 185 Meg bytes big and can be downloaded from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?zujj2uonmzj

So um......I put together the next collection of AARs for this game. The collection holds AARs for turns 21 throu 30 and you can find it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4djdwyznvzm

I've put the next collection of AARs together. It's turns 31 throu 40 and you can find it here:
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I've put together the next collection of AAR's. This is turns 41 throu 50 and you can find it here:
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I've put together the next collection of AAR's. This is turns 51 throu 60 and you can find it here:
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I've put together the next collection of AAR's. This is turns 61 throu 70 and you can find it here:
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I've put together the next collection of turns AAR's. This one is 71 through 80 and you can find it here:
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I've put together the next collection of turns AAR's. This one is 81 through 100 and you can find it here:
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Here's the front lines so far:

[sPzAbt653]

FitE ! FitE ! FitE !

[Da_Huge_D]

Okay, picture from end of turn 1 savefile. So here is my first plan about making first lines. Line starts from south, along river-Dnestr, after that will be Stalin line @ south - going north-east, Gomel, Mogilev, Vitebsk. Then turning back to west, all way along Dvina-river into Riga.
Northern part of line will be very thin, because lack of armies there. And i don't think that it cant hold Germans long (3 turns would be realistic estimate).
Stalin line is strongest part of line, plenty Mech corps & Armies around there...

[Da_Huge_D]

Okay. 2nd turn done,, I post now Larry's pictures too.
From that link you can see Larry's pics & info:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/94ftr5

Anyway, here's shot from South. As you can see, my Stalin line is forming nicely. However, there is weak sectors; in north & South.


Edit: Better pic.

[mike1984]

That Stalin Line will evaporate faster than a drop of water on hot blacktop.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: mike1984
That Stalin Line will evaporate faster than a drop of water on hot blacktop.

Thanks a lot Mike....now I have to make it happen that way so your statement comes true. No pressure....

[Andriko]

I thik I disagree with Mike. All the AARs of the East front I have seen, most Soviet players just retreat for ever, and by the time they pick some where to stand and defend, Germany has so much momentum they are in Moscow by Christmas 41.Even if his line does break, it will have slowed Germany down quite a bit.

[larryfulkerson]

I have finished my part of turn 3 ( the Axis side ) and I'm pushing some troops across the river near Riga, have bumped into the Stalin Line and have the surburbs of Minsk in my binoculars. The AAR for the Axis side of the conflict can be found at this url: http://www.filedropper.com/dahdturn3

Here's the Axis losses chart so far:

[Da_Huge_D]

ORIGINAL: mike1984

That Stalin Line will evaporate faster than a drop of water on hot blacktop.

Stalin-line's purpose isnt to stop Axis. Its just pre-line and will slow down advancing.

[Da_Huge_D]

Time for some updating;
Fulkerson is very fast, he is now crossed even River Dvina, and Riga will be encircled next turn. I have organised armies, and now they are mostly regrouped (armies @ start where suffled all over the map).

Some shots from South:

At this picture you can see my first plan @south:


New Main-line is contructing:

[Da_Huge_D]

Here's shot from front of Odessa:

[fogger]

Are you playing with Buzz's mod7?

[Da_Huge_D]

ORIGINAL: fogger

Are you playing with Buzz's mod7?

Nope.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a HUGE file that shows the front lines before anything moves in Axis turn 4:

http://www.filedropper.com/turn4pre-movementmoves

EDIT: Oh....did I happen to mention that a house rule that Dave and I are observing is there is to be no disbanding of units at all during the game. Dave suggested it and I agreed so.....

EDIT: the link no longer works so you can try it if you want but nothing good will happen.

[Da_Huge_D]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Here's a HUGE file that shows the front lines before anything moves in Axis turn 4:

http://www.filedropper.com/turn4pre-movementmoves

EDIT: Oh....did I happen to mention that a house rule that Dave and I are observing is there is to be no disbanding of units at all during the game. Dave suggested it and I agreed so.....

Yeah. + all the house rules on scenario briefing; Finns cant cross old borders before Leningrad falls etc etc.

[larryfulkerson]

I had to try two HQ units and three engineers before I could find somebody who could repair a bridge:

[Da_Huge_D]

Soviet losses after turn 3:

[larryfulkerson]

Well, the Axis turn 4 is done.  I'm surrounding Minsk, I bumped into the Stalin Line, dropped some paratroops NE of Riga, have moved closer to Smolensk, etc.  Turn 4's AAR can be found here:  http://www.filedropper.com/dahdturn4

This turn's AAR is about 10M big because of the area taken up by the front lines in motion movie.  I've covered everything from Riga to Odessa and it's awesome.

[Da_Huge_D]

Well well. 4th turn just done. There are four pockets now made by Larry. They're all small, good thing. But Riga's pre-line ruined before it was even ready. lol. Larry's didnt started attack for Stalin line this turn yet, but germans are now @ positions within 2 hexes, and next turn Larry's panzer spears will collapse whole line with one lil punch i fear...

Anyway, here's overall picture after turn 4:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a picture of the front lines as of the beginning of Axis turn 5: