Matrix Games

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ORIGINAL: Pelton
Stalin turns on the weather machine to try and stop the GHC, mud.

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ORIGINAL: Walloc

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ORIGINAL: Pelton
Stalin turns on the weather machine to try and stop the GHC, mud.

Lucky you
Well, over all prolly not the worst turn it could happen. Will stop his pace of withdrawl too.

Kind regards,

Rasmus

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ORIGINAL: Pelton
Only problem is the next turn (5)the south center zone was mud.

I wanted to try a random weather game and so far very very unlucky.

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ORIGINAL: Walloc

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ORIGINAL: Pelton
Only problem is the next turn (5)the south center zone was mud.

I wanted to try a random weather game and so far very very unlucky.

When it rain it pours?

Sorry to hear Pelton, that was unlucky. Depending on luck it could come back. Only 70% chance of mud in N zone when it comes to that. 2-3 bad rolls(for SHC) and its snow. No doubt luck plays heavily into random weather. I remember a pbem destroying a pz and mot div purely cuz of weather. Mid being mud putting every one in N zone in the mid in isolation and my opponent wasnt carefull enough.

Kind regards,

Rasmus

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ORIGINAL: Walloc

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ORIGINAL: Pelton
Only problem is the next turn (5)the south center zone was mud.

I wanted to try a random weather game and so far very very unlucky.

When it rain it pours?

Sorry to hear Pelton, that was unlucky. Depending on luck it could come back. Only 70% chance of mud in N zone when it comes to that. 2-3 bad rolls(for SHC) and its snow. No doubt luck plays heavily into random weather. I remember a pbem destroying a pz and mot div purely cuz of weather. Mid being mud putting every one in N zone in the mid in isolation and my opponent wasnt carefull enough.

Kind regards,

Rasmus

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ORIGINAL: hfarrish

I am the opponent for Pelton in this game, and given where the AAR is (we are significantly further along) I thought it would be a good time to pop in and offer a couple of comments, as most of the previous turns were not particularly interesting given the lack of actual fighting.

First, I'd like to thank Pelton for offering up a tough challenge - I knew what I was getting into but he has done a good job of keeping at my heels and exploiting any errors.

My strategy for the summer of '41 was to accomplish the following:

1. Preserve the Red Army - I was fortunate to play a couple of other PBEM's post fort nerf prior to this round and learned quickly how hopeless and self defeating it is to stand and fight in a meaningful way before turns 7 and 8. From an execution perspective, this meant withdrawing all the relatively high morale infantry to begin constructing lines that had a prayer of being defended without resulting in a major pocket. I think the Dnepr from Dnepetrovosk (sp) northward is a death trap, so I screened this and the landbridge with weak units that I did not refit, preferring instead to construct lines from the Molochna in the South up along the Vorskla, then from Bryansk north through Vyzama and Rzhev. Weak units were also used to try and keep a unit on the motorized/pz forces at all times.

This effort leaves little for Leningrad, so I put some strong units in the swamps running north from Novgorod to the city itself, making no serious attempt to hold the Luga.

2. Efficient Factory Evacuation - Speaks for itself.

3. Hold Moscow - Going to be a near run thing.

Overall I'm pleased with my play so far, with the exception of two glaring errors - I left the T50 factory in Leningrad b/c I thought it was one that didn't upgrade...that was wrong, so a future T-34 factory is toast. The second, and more significant was a failure to properly guard against the right hook around Leningrad. I call this an error although I am not sure that I would have done things much differently...any troops I sent there would not have been able to stop Pelton; possibly they could have delayed him a turn or two but only at the cost of weakening another sector and potentially getting additional units pocketed. Can't be strong everywhere, and the quick fall of Leningrad did allow me to get most of my troops to Moscow in time to start digging (for what it's worth).

On a related note, I thought this was also Pelton's one noticeable error - I think by taking a couple of turns away from the turn to Moscow he could have bagged the entire Northern Front, which would have been a seriously crushing blow to my morale and strategy. I don't see the other side so maybe the realities of supply made this impossible, but it didn't seem like it would have taken that much to accomplish.

Anyway, a good game to date and I hope people find it interesting. I don't think anyone has really figured out the secret sauce for the Soviets in 41 yet, at least not from any AAR against a good German player that I am seeing...so at least I don't feel like I'm doing too badly!