BrianG v. HYLA (no hard luck)

[BrianG]

This is my 5th or 6th game as the Germans.

Should be difficult.

Here are my meager air kills. I fail to select German airgroups for each mission unlike how I play when Russian.


I went after the good planes and recon.

[BrianG]

Riga falls to hasty. I fail to give retreat route. Thus they rout.

[BrianG]

Brest attack

[BrianG]

Key point down south must be annihilated.

That's what they kept saying in the preattack meetings.

[BrianG]

Turn 1 south end.

2 Pockets are not sealed. I do not go for the new far east surround everything move.

[BrianG]

Swamp final positions. I cut east west transverse swamp rr lines.

Kovel is Open but troops will never get out.

[BrianG]

Minsk final. Pocket secure.

[BrianG]

final north turn1. end positions.

I think the pocket will hold. To many hexes to convert for russians

[beender]

ORIGINAL: BrianG

Riga falls to hasty. I fail to give retreat route. Thus they rout.

Well given the loss the rout isn't much different from surrender.

Btw I've always used one panzer to take Riga and has never failed. But looking at CV numbers here, even two divisions were barely enough. Maybe it's safer to use two panzers here because as Axis you really can't afford not taking Riga on T1.

[MarauderPL]

You can try with one PzDiv, if that fails, attack again with two.

[BrianG]

if you use 2, they still have 1 hex mp range to move. one into riga and other to the east

[BrianG]

German counter moves in the middle

[BrianG]

excuse me, Russian countermoves in lower map.


nice and close hug from the big red bear.

pocket broken, 1 panzer unit cut off

lots of Russian bombings.

[BrianG]

I attempt to form new pocket. This is one of the possible avenues of advance. East over river then due south

[BrianG]

This was a key point that needed to be moved

[BrianG]

final south.

nice pocket but it could leak. upper pocket looks secure

[BrianG]

final Rovno and swamp cut. officially cuts off Kovel grouping

[BrianG]

Final middle. I take south forest route across the Berezina

[BrianG]

Final north.

I form pocket around useless airborne and security units.

better off if I had routed the lot of them.

Party time in Leningrad.

[BrianG]

north open
do recall my comments a few panels before about routing the lot of em.

Here is the proof.