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[WingedIncubus]

ORIGINAL: thedoctorking

No point in holding on to Minsk, I'd say. Get back behind the Berezina.

It can only move a single hex, due to low MP. It'll last longer inside Minsk. [:o]

[Neogodhobo]

To: General Armii Drakken
From : Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya
June 28th, 1941

Commander, I will trust your better judgement here. But it is bad news indeed. Better not alert Stalin of this just right away... As mention before, you have operational and tactical freedom until further notice.

[WingedIncubus]

We have wallas as a Replacement, should anyone be AWOL.

However, would you be open to invite him as Air Force Commander instead?

[Neogodhobo]

Yes, its in the progress, Iv received 5 different PM from 5 different person about that -_- haha

[Psych0]

OK I did the South turn. Not a very good opening by the Krauts in the south, I was able to isolate all 7 panzer/mot divisions. So I decided not to run away yet, also because Rumania stays out of the war next turn still. Furthermore, I took the liberty to rail 5th Mech Corps from Shepetovka area to Vitebsk/VL area as I don't need it in the south and it'll be needed for Leningrad or Moscow defense.

[Neogodhobo]

Sounds good commander.

Congrats on isolating his fast division !!



General Armii Drakken

You have been given command of the 5th Mech Corps. Use them as reserve for the defense of Moscow.

[thedoctorking]

The Red Navy did a fine job of transporting isolated units from the Baltic coast to Leningrad, from whence they will redeploy to the Pskov/Narva/Vitebsk front to defeat and repel the fascist invaders. All air units have been redeployed behind the line of resistance. 8th Army remains isolated in southern Lithuania and General Sobennikov is honored to announce that every soldier in the Army, including himself, is ready to give their lives to defend the homeland of world socialism by delaying follow-up units for the German XXXXI Panzer Corps, similarly isolated to their north around Riga. 5th Airborne Corps has formed a skirmish line in eastern Lithuania to prevent any exploitation towards the main line of resistance by the fascists south of the southern Dvina line.

OK, so don't show this part to the vozhd: I could use some reinforcements up here, but I don't know what became of our rail cap. Next turn, we should be able to move reinforcement units freely (there can be no movement of factories until turn 3, I think). Like there's a mech corps down around Krasnodar, a rifle corps near Cherkassy, and some units from the North Caucasus Front that are mobile and could be redeployed to the front if we had rail cap to move them. I'd like to have a line of actual combat units along the Luga to Novgorod and then south from Lake Ilmen along the river/swamp line to Velikie Luki (that's the real main line of resistance). I'd also like some real units for 7th Independent Army north of Lake Ladoga along the line of the river and Lake Janisjarvi there. If we can keep the Finns from turning the corner they will be basically impotent. I used a couple of AP to reassign units to different armies; this will be needed next turn as well, especially when 8th Army gets wiped out. I don't know if destroyed armies are reborn like divisions?

(edit) Which is to say, I'm done with my part of the turn. I suggest that our fearless leader should be the one to declare the turn over and run the Axis logistics phase, then save the game to the Dropbox for our fascist opponents.

I didn't do anything with the air force other than send the planes from the isolated air bases back to national reserve. If we have an air commander, he may want to go through all the air bases before any movement has taken place and send squadrons with really low morale or high fatigue or very few planes back to national reserve. Otherwise we front commanders can do it for our bases before we start moving them next turn. If the Axis has managed to not overrun them all.

[Neogodhobo]

Sounds good. Although you said you didnt need any AP and now you used some so it fucks around a bit with the planning..

How many exactly did you used ? I keep a tab of everything on paper here.

Wallas is our new air commander, he will be in charge of everything air related, including paratroopers.

[WingedIncubus]

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

General Armii Drakken

You have been given command of the 5th Mech Corps. Use them as reserve for the defense of Moscow.

To: Chief of Staff Neogodhobo, STAVKA, Moscow
From: General of the Army Drakken, Central Front, Smolensk

We acknowledge the order and request proposals from STAVKA on how to prepare the defence of the Moscow area - whether we set up a ring of defensive measures around the city, or inside the city itself instead.

[Neogodhobo]

ORIGINAL: Drakken

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

General Armii Drakken

You have been given command of the 5th Mech Corps. Use them as reserve for the defense of Moscow.

To: Chief of Staff Neogodhobo, STAVKA, Moscow
From: General of the Army Drakken, Central Front, Smolensk

We acknowledge the order and request proposals from STAVKA on how to prepare the defence of the Moscow area - whether we set up a ring of defensive measures around the city, or inside the city itself instead.

I am currently preparing new plans. Plan proposal will arrive shortly, possibly tomorrow or the day after.

[thedoctorking]

ORIGINAL: Neogodhobo

Sounds good. Although you said you didnt need any AP and now you used some so it fucks around a bit with the planning..

How many exactly did you used ? I keep a tab of everything on paper here.

Wallas is our new air commander, he will be in charge of everything air related, including paratroopers.

Probably one or two. Sorry.

At some point, there will have to be a big shuffling of armies. We can wait a bit, though. The dead units will be resurrected back in Siberia but I think each one will cost us some AP, so there will be a shortage for several turns.

[thedoctorking]

As far as paratroopers are concerned, we aren't going to be making any paradrops anytime soon because they have to have experience of 45 or something like that. Plus the Germans have air superiority right now. I was using mine as speedbumps...er...infantry.

[Neogodhobo]

Yeah exactly, paratroopers are going to be infantry, but they now belong to Wallas, air commander.

[Psych0]

Maybe I missed something but a few questions for my clarity:
1. Does Wallas control all air now or only Stavka air? I moved mine already this turn. Building and assigning air units too I suppose.
2. How do we prevent more than 1 commander doing their turn at the same time? Is there a pre-set order we do the turns in? For example, Centre => South => North => air => Stavka
3. Only neo moves Stavka units?
4. Can we agree on a max number of units on refit per ground commander? No more than 5 I'd say.
5. Who does the industry evac?
6. How do we use our rail cap?

[Neogodhobo]

1- Yes along with paratrooper units.
2- Pre-set are like this : Sup. Commander --) Air Commander --) Central --) Northern ---) Southern ---) Air Commander --) Sup. Commander
3- Yes ( although we could change this if someone is against that, I mean, I personally dont care either way )
4- Yes we can agree, just everyone let me know what you guys think is fair and we will settle for that.
5- I dont know who does the Industry evac, Iv been asking for an Industry leader since the first day. Maybe we can give this to the Air Commander, so itl be more things to do for him.
6- I dont know. Whats the max amount total in the game ? Divide this in 3 in that manner : 25% North / 45% South / 30% Center.

[wallas]

Reporting in team and thanks for having me. If some air has already been moved due to my late joining it is fine. Also where do I download the turn file ?

[thedoctorking]

You'll need to get into the Dropbox. I think Sparklytits is responsible for the Dropbox, PM him and get added.

I have already moved the airborne corps in the Northwest Front. I am guessing that they are going to be beaten up in the next Axis turn. My goal was to have them in the second rank of any future defense to slow breakthroughs.

I sent most air regiments that were below 45 morale or so back to national reserve. That seems like a good rule from my solitaire games.

Welcome to the game!

Stewart

[thedoctorking]

Why do we want to limit the number of units on refit?

[Neogodhobo]

Alright guys, Wallas wanted to know how much AP he was allowed, so I will think about it and come back with an answer, and he wanted to know about his paratrooper ground unit, if he would be allowed to keep them all the way to Berlin, or if they were to be changed to Guard units. I leave this entirely up to ground commanders.

And sorry for my lack of Role playing in the messages as Stavka or Stalin, and to come up with a plan for next turn, Iv got a lot on my hands, Im leaving work on the 29th. Its been 6 months Iv been working every single day, and I got to prepare to go back home. I will also be absent from the 29th to the 6th October. (the time it take to drive back home )

I will leave a replacement while Im gone, and/or all information you need to do the turn that will occur during that time.
Thanks for understanding.

[thedoctorking]

He should probably be creating new air regiments right from the start. At least four or five a turn. Seeing as half or more of our air force just got destroyed on the ground.