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Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Belphegor welcome - 11/26/2011 11:08:04 PM   
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No house rules as the only ones I could think of restrict the Soviet. I thought that would be unfair as I beat him in 1942 last time we played, and 1.05 seems to make it easier for Jerry especially in '42.

I won't do any HQ flipping or use excessive HQ build up ( I never have) as I think those tactics are gamey. I don't mean that in a judgemental way. What others do is between them and their opponents.




Belphegor will soon learn there is no point hiding up trees.
I hope I will soon learn how to shrink the picture size

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 11/29/2011 12:32:56 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 11/29/2011 12:37:21 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 11/29/2011 1:03:32 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 11/29/2011 1:06:38 PM   
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Agian nothing spectacular. I prefer to surround rather than attack in T1 especially as pockets are now such fertile recruiting ground for Hiwis. I aim to maximise unit kills in the first few turns in especially as that makes checkerboard difficult.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 11/29/2011 1:24:39 PM   
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Similar to that vs Fiva - I am an old dog after all.

L,M and Donbass cities are the main terrain targets. I will also try to kill 3.2M+ communists in the clear weather and over 3.5M before blizzard starts so as to leave Stalin with a weak winter offensive. This should then mean a good '42 for me.

I got a decisive '42 victory against B before ( he hung on tenaciously and only surrendered when i was a few cities short) and I intend to do the same again as 1.05 benefits me a lot more than him.

He will remain my chewtoy

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 11/29/2011 6:24:19 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/1/2011 3:12:00 PM   
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Lvov pocket restored, otherwise slum clearing the other pockets whih did survive

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/2/2011 11:53:36 AM   
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Not much action - inf closing up ready for next turn

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/2/2011 11:55:55 AM   
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B's decision to fight forward at Minsk costs him 10 divs + 4 abn brigades. slum clearing in the rear but some inf xx reaching the front lines. Behind geographically but worth it for the extra kills.

A single mot div surrounded as our brave lads cross the Ulla river on the way to Smolensk

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/2/2011 12:00:54 PM   
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Pocket clearing and another 10 divs pocketed as I encircle his front line agian. Particularly pleasing is the entrapment of the elite 2nd mech corps (2 tk 1 mot xx) which are the biggest commie units in the South. They can be seen east of Chernovtsky with a supporting inf div. They had moved forward to help free the Lvov pocket but soon they will become Hiwis.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/2/2011 7:05:54 PM   
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Nice pocketing, now you see why i was running away from you in our game !

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/4/2011 1:54:07 PM   
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Featured combat: classic attack by infantry across the river pinning the motorised div. 2 hours after they first attacked, 2 Pz div struck from the rear, overrunning the rear echelos and cofuing the enemy so much that they retreated in a panic to the SW instead of Pskov, thereby creating a nice mini pocket of 1 mot + 2 inf divs.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/4/2011 1:58:59 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/4/2011 1:59:54 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/4/2011 8:59:39 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/4/2011 11:01:43 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

Looks pretty good so far, looks like youa re going to run out of russians to chew on down there in the south


Just like in our game???

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 3:24:11 AM   
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Allthough your decapitation of my leningrad front sucked worse.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 9:59:08 AM   
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Yeah that really sucked.

Allthough your decapitation of my leningrad front sucked worse.


Actually I was thinking of my '42 offensive


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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 10:11:16 PM   
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consolidating progess from last turn. Unit adjacent to Novgorod will probably be cut off - I hope then to catch the offender against the lake where it will join the ranks of my Hiwis which are currently being trained in large numbers.

Usual sideshows to capture Talinn and Kessare.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 10:15:49 PM   
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The start of the meatgrinder. Actually managed to surround a whole division

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 10:18:29 PM   
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The 2 corps of PzG 2 race to Cherkassy, and PzG 1 creates 2 new good pockets totalling ? 15 divs/equivalents ( surely the bulk of remaining commie forces in the deep south) and plant themselves on Cherkassy and Kirovograd. Sadly, only the latter still has its factories. Both breakthroughs led by supporting infantry armies to clear the way as best they could though 6 army keeps being held up by pocket killing. Not complaining though.

Kiev area is still heavily defended, despite only facing screening forces until Lvov pocket is cleared, and I reckon B does not have enough forces down south to stop me at the moment. I expect he may have had to divert more to the centre following the failed forward defence of Minsk which cost about 10 divs and 6 brigades.

The more I play , the more I think early G success depends on the number of units killed in the early turns. Kill enough and checkerboarding won't work, and not much else with either. It also makes it much harder to counterattack, especially as I have killed most if not all of his large armour units in the south, which in turn means G can take more chances leading to more russian losses and so on........

No, I have not yet used HQ build up. Have got the army much better sorted, though.

I expect B to reduce his Kiev bridgehead as these are the nearest he has to spare troops.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 10:44:11 PM   
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B using his airforce quite aggessively for interdiction and even some bombing of ground units he's not attacking. Air to air losses 12:1 in my favour which seems reasonable. Long may it continue

I did bomb a couple of airfields once each before overunning them, hence some SB 2 recce a/c lost which actually matters now you can actually shoot down recce planes as well.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/5/2011 10:51:34 PM   
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I think my Hiwi gain is higher than my losses

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/9/2011 11:01:12 PM   
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Good progress towards L with little opposition. Options of passing Novgorod and crossing river north of it, or the longer route pushing towards the Valdai Hills before turning left both look viable. Near Novgorod commies don't look well dug in and there is lot of armour there which is pretty useles in defence.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/9/2011 11:08:40 PM   
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Combat shows infantry smashing a path across the Dnepr, whilst strong forces push round to the north of Smolensk

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/9/2011 11:23:52 PM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/9/2011 11:26:46 PM   
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Armoured units exploit the opportunity spotted by advance recce troops. Lead forces advance a further 60 miles sweeping away Russian HQs and airbases.

B's earlier losses of so many units in the south really beginning to tell. Zhitomir, Cherkassy, Krasnograd and Odessa all fall to advancing axis troops. Little serious resitance offered as Das Reich leads the way by clearing Cherkassy with minimal losses.

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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/10/2011 10:32:06 AM   
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RE: Old Dog finds Canadian Chewtoy Sillyflower v Belphe... - 12/10/2011 10:34:15 AM   
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