BrianG vs Bobo

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RE: Turn 35

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Yes, it is if you wait until it's available. I start early.

Regiments also can become guards.
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RE: Turn 35

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I still prefer the battalions. More tooth to tail on the TO&E

Battalion- 36 tubes 356 men
42a Regt- 32 tubes 796 men
42b Regt- 36 tubes 856 men
42c Regt- 20 tubes 480 men
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Turn 36 - 37

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19.2.1942 - 5.3.1942

Last 2 weeks of Blizzard. Both sides are recovering and digging. Very few actions.

Final Blizzard lines in Kursk - Charkov area.

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RE: Turn 36 - 37

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And Donbas.

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Turn 38

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5.3.1942 - 11.3.1942

March has started but no March madness so far.
The only sector regularly seeing actions is Crimea where I am trying to pound the Romanians. This turn I have conducted 2 attacks there. First with 2.5k vs 1.5k casualties but the second was little bit off. 3k vs 300 casualties attacking on mountain hex. Really!?



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RE: Turn 38

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Probably elements that were damaged even before your attack. There had been only 1 non-blizzard player turn.

Also, you could check the effect of your bombers - did they damage a lot of elements?



Care to share some number of OOB strength and infantry formations - #Div & #Brig? Tanks are not interesting...

Where do you plan to be defending in early May i.e. the 1st clear turn?
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RE: Turn 38

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AAR is 5 turns behind the game and I do not have number of inf formations for this turn. I will provide it later however they should not be much different from January numbers(they are on the first page of AAR)

I will probably defend forward. Not sure yet for the May. We are playing with random weather and therefore clear turns may come in April.

OOB # beginning of March
Soviets:
Men 6323666
Art 67411
Afv 4938
A/C 9339

Germans:
Men 3324838
Art 34114
Afv 1881
A/C 3272

Romania:
Men 600413

Hungary:
Men 439795

Italy:
Men 231995

Finland:
Men 265616

Slovakia
Men 39200
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RE: Turn 38

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Thanks!

6.3M looks good.
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Turn 39

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12.3.1942 - 18.3.1942

A quiet turn so just some production numbers. The armaments pool is nicely rising. [8D]



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Turn 40

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19.3.1942 - 25.3.1942

Crimea saw some action this turn.
My attacks on Crimea attracted Brian's attention and at least 2 Panzer corps were moved there. At least 3 rifle divisions are doomed and fate of Sevastopol is in the air.
I have tried to attack the LSSAH but failed miserably.

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Turn 41 - 42

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26.3.1942 - 8.4.1942

Fighting on Crimea continues. The 3 surrounded divisions were annihilated. Also part of the Sevastopol outer perimeter was captured. One of the defending divisions was not able to retreat or rout and surrendered as well. It seems only weather can now save Sevastopol.

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RE: Turn 41 - 42

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Number of Soviet formations, OOB and losses from beginning of April.

Rifle divisions - 367
Cavalry corps - 14
Tank corps - 9
Mountain divisions - 5
Tank brigades - 78
Rifle brigades - 160

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Turn 43

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9.4.1942 - 15.4.1942

Mud season continues with mud everywhere except North weather zone. Germans had launched dozens of attacks and destroyed my precious forts. Nothing disastrous so far.

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Turn 44

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16.4.1942 - 22.4.1942

Finally mud everywhere. Nothing to report.

My first 12 TCs. Should I go with 3 TC per tank army or with 4? But with 4, tank army will be overloaded.

btw. Next turn the 1st Tank corps was redesigned to 5th Guard.

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Turn 45

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23.4.1942 - 29.4.1942

Once again the weather played against me with clear weather on Crimea. As a result, Sevastopol had fallen with 3 Rifle divisions and 2 PVO regiments have been removed from Soviet OOB. I am pretty disappointed with this result.

- defending divisions were fresh (I've been rotating them regularly)
- 2 PVO regiments assigned to Sevastopol were not able to shot down anything
- Axis leading force were Panzers, in dense terrain with halved CV
- not a single Soviet fighter from Kuban appeared over Sevastopol (they were in range, in previous fights they participated in the battles)

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RE: Turn 45

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Interesting combat results. I see a dramatic reduction in the Modified Combat Value in the Sevastopol battle. I would assume this has to do with the fact that Coastal Army is out of range and all the leader checks fail.

Regarding the failed intercept. I often notice that fighters don't intercept when there is superior Axis fighter cover. This is most annoying when the Axis player uses Ju-52 to resupply troops.
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RE: BrianG vs Bobo (no Brian pls)

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One of the major annoyances of the game is that it's impossible to tell what happened at Sevastopol. Was it lack of local leadership or did the fort get reduced? Only the attacking player has any clue about whether the fort level was reduced and nobody knows anything about the leader checks.
Lack of local leadership isn't normally a problem in my experience, with defensive CVs as likely to quadruple as they are to halve, HQ or no HQ.
HQ's should be exempt from the 3 unit stacking limit in my view, but not having one within range should be a noticeable disadvantage. Not so much a chance of failing leader checks, but a certainty.
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RE: BrianG vs Bobo (no Brian pls)

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ORIGINAL: timmyab

HQ's should be exempt from the 3 unit stacking limit in my view, but not having one within range should be a noticeable disadvantage. Not so much a chance of failing leader checks, but a certainty.

I agree that HQs should be excluded from the stack limit.
Aware about the disadvantage of missing HQ I had a dilemma if 2 RDs + HQ would not be better than 3 RDs w/o HQ.
But I am pretty sure that with 2 RDs + HQ Sevastopol would have been fallen as well.
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RE: BrianG vs Bobo (no Brian pls)

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Have you guys stopped playing?
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RE: BrianG vs Bobo (no Brian pls)

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Its still going on. Actually summer 42 started with expected disaster(7 armies lost) and I need some time to figure out what to do.
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