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ORIGINAL: Michael T
M60's attacks surprised me. For example he pushed a strong Pz XX out of Kalinin, he also relieved a small pocket around Vyzama about 3 turns in a row. It finally got to the point in that pocket where I lost patience and routed them. He used a mass of ID for each attack and they rarely failed. You have to ask him about his command structure but it seemed his CV was quadrupled on many occasions. It was somewhat unnerving because I really tried to tie up the Vyzama pocket and pushing my Pz xx of of Kalinin was annoying. But after studying the situation I thought well if he is strong in that area he must be weak elsewhere. So when I put it in to that context I figured let him keep attacking me in those areas and I will go elsewhere. And his attacks were not just one attack, he usually attacked 2 or 3 hexes in the area. It really was something I had not encountered before. Very aggressive Soviet play. If the units he was using had survived (they almost all must have ended up in pockets) they would have made Guard status very early. Might have been a nasty blizzard if we had got that far.
So overall no series effect on me. But not insignificant.
Hmmh, interesting. So picking together the right units, one can cause trouble for the Wehrmacht. Not serious enough to force it to assume a defensive stance for 4-6 turns (just like happened at the land bridge), but fine. So there is a lack of good enough units and units with enough MP to achieve that, and at the same time not to weaken other important areas too terribly. Since M60 ultimately lost these of his best units then pocketed, I'd think it was an uneven bargain. Perhaps if the Soviet side had better reinforcements to be able to digest their loss, this tactic would make more sense. But at least he tried and he did have some success with it!
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ORIGINAL: Michael T
I was always operating at the fringe of the supply net after T3 in the centre and T6 in the south. On T7 and T8 in the Centre I virtually did nothing, just getting in to position, Inf catching up, and stocking up gas, there was some bluffing on my part as well.
The single most important thing I do now is let the Mot Inf do most of the running around and use Panzer gas for attacks and shorter runs. Fuel efficiency is the key for the Axis in 41. Always has been in this game. You need to devise methods to account for different problems. My tank strength in this game is the best it has ever been because I used them sparingly. You have to out manoeuvre the Red Army, a slugfest will lead to defeat.
Nothing to say against the latter logic. Why send a fuel-eating Panzer division, when a unit on motorbikes, trucks and PSW can do the job. Saper had that one ought right, especially since the CV of Mot. Divs is quite sufficient in most cases, anyway.
What surprises me, though, is that despite the supply issues you still managed to advance so quickly and successfully. I mean it is turn ten, barely 2 months into Barbarossa. Basically the Barbarossa schedule. Given that you did not advance without fighting, i.e. logistics could not purely focus on fuel, my thinking is that one should be facing a very dry supply/fuel phase at around this point in the came that alone should prevent you to get far past the landbridge or Pskov. I am not sure how others see it, but logistics should be tuned turn some more.
< Message edited by janh -- 3/14/2013 11:45:04 AM >
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