D21 yet again. A tribute to the community as my thanks

[larryfulkerson]

It's still T90 round 1 and here's what it looks like NE of Voroshilovgrad right now. My goal here is to push up to the Don River, stop up all the crossings, and just hold what I've got for now. At the same time I'd like to keep pressing for Stalingrad. The rivers aren't frozen over any longer so it's possible to hold back the Soviets cheaply in this AO.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T90 round 2 and here's what it looks like NW of Moscow right now. My goal here is to push up to the river crossings over the Volga river, stop up all the crossings, and just hold what I've got for now. At the same time I'd like to keep pressing for Moscow from it's west side, which right now is a jumble of units from each side colliding in a pushing match complete with arty duels and no quarter given. I may have blown a hole in the Soviet lines just west of Kalinin and if I can hold it open long enough to pour some warm bodies through the gap them maybe I can get into the Soviet backfield and roll up their defenders north and south.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T91 round 1 and here's what it looks like west of Stalingrad right now. The Axis forces are slowly making their way to Stalingrad mostly sticking to the roads and rails but there's only one supply rail feeding this AO so the supply levels aren't particularly good very far from that rail. I have several river crossings to have to capture before I can approach Stalingrad and I need the crossings to allow the supply to flow properly. I don't have an overabundance of troops in this AO and of the constellation of options available to me these two are obvious: rail some more troops down here and break down the units to give more boots on the ground.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T91 round 1 and here's what it looks like NW of Moscow right now. I've managed to completely surround a small group of Soviet units and now the mop up starts where I start the process of destroying all the surrounded units. These are large stacks of Soviet units including some Soviet Guards units so it's going to be difficult to make them disappear. But it needs to be done.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T91 round 2 and here's what's going on near Sevastopol right now. I'm astonished that there's a battle going on here still. I've been at it since just before last winter and here it is in early May 1942 and there's still open warfare going on here. The Romanians are taking a beating trying to take Sevastopol down. All the Romanian units in this fight are down to half strength now. And they are good for only one attack per turn before they turn yellow. The Soviets have bou cou arty backing them up making it really costly to attack the Soviet lines. I'm thinking of stopping the ground attacks while using my RR arty to bombard the Soviet arty for about a week to whittle down their arty support strength. And maybe include some bombers on these arty strikes.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T91 round 2 and here's what is going on across Crimea's Kerch Straits on the Soviet side of the bay. The supply level over there is adequate but I don't have the manpower available to push on to Krasnodar yet. There are operations going on to the NE of here to gain Rostov and push south to this position but it's meeting stiff restance so we have a standoff for now.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T91 round 2 and here's what is going on at Cherepovets right now. I need the crossings at Cherepovets and Rybinsk both in order to supply any advance going east from here. And I have plans to do just that in the works. It's not even the middle of the year so there's plenty of time to drive to the east as long as I can keep everybody supplied.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T92 round 2 and I'm just on the brink of capturing an intact bridge over a tributary of the Don River west of Stalingrad. I need all the crossings to allow the flow of supply to the valient troops fighting in this AO. I just now railed the entire 22nd Panzer Division to lend a hand in the takedown of Stalingrad.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T92 round 2 and the Finns are clearing out the forested and swampy terrain east of Leningrad. It's slow going because supply levels are so low and the terrain is difficult. Fortunately, the Soviet units are sparse so this area should be clear soon. The there's no strategic value up here except for the objective Vologda which is further south of here so there's to real need to push further east although I would like to attempt to capture the port of Archangel which is on the north coast and the road that leads to there starts at Vytegra I do believe.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T93 round 6 and this is what's happening near Rostov right now. I have the Hungarians and Romanians attempting to gain the city of Rostov and they aren't making much headway. Part of the problem is that I can't attack the same target with different Axis minor allies at the same time. But the good news is that the rails are getting repaired closer to this area all the time. The supply levels close to Rostov are 28 but further east near Tsimlyanskaya the supply level is 1 at the tip of the spear. But now that the repaired rail is getting closer the supply level will slowly rise.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T93 round 6 and this is what's happening west of Moscow right now. I am on the verge of jumping the minor river and into the forested area NW of Mozhaysk because there's only a small Soviet unit blocking my way and I can brush it asside easily. Unless Elmer wakes up and moves some units into that clear space. Actually there's probably some invisible Soviet units already there.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T93 round 6 and this is what's happening at Voronezh right now. I have managed to capture a couple of crossings over the major river and I'm now on the east side of Voronezh and can help it the take down of that city. I need that crossing to allow supply to flow freely to parts east of here.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T93 round 6 and this is what's happening NW of Moscow right now. I'm still pushing toward the major river to the east of my positions. I want to stop up all the crossings here and give my units a rest for a turn or two to regain their strength. Oh, and by the way the Soviets have a shock of 110% because they are into the third day of their '42 spring offensive. But my shock is 100% so I hardly even notice the difference their boost gives them.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T94 round 2 and I just now captured Cherepovets which is a good thing because I need that crossing to feed supply to any of my units that will soon be east of here. It appears that there's only one rail feeding supply and that's the one sneaking in from the middle of the left edge. And there's only one rail leaving Cherepovets going east. That may soon become a problem.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T95 round 2 and I seem to have blown a large hole in the Soviet lines just west of Moscow and I now need to stream a lot of troops through the hole. There are a lot of troops nearby to do just that. I'd like to be able to roll up the Soviet defenders and destroy them before I assault the city of Moscow. I have 23.1K HRS's assigned and 1190 HRS's on hand and I'm making 407 HRS's per turn. It's about 4/10 cloudy but not raining and the supply levels are excellent except for the north edge of the map where it dips to 4 at the tip of the spear.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T96 round 3 and I've captured Cherepovets and the terrain to the west of the river in this image are largely cleared out and the advance continues. My shock is 105% and the Soviet shock is 98%. I have 23.1K HRS's assigned and 630 HRS's on hand. It's about 7/10 and it raining all over the map complete with T-storms and lots of dark rain clouds. The supply levels are not so great. Axis supply is 0 on the east side of the river, 1 adjacent to the river on the west side, and 17 at Cherepovets.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T96 round 3 and I seem to have found a hole in the SW side of the Soviet front lines near Moscow. It's round 3 so most of the Axis units have expended most of their MP's so there's not much I can do to take advantage of the hole yet and Elmer will surely run some units down there to block me from making any further progress. So this may not be the game changer I was hoping for.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T97 round 2 and this is what that little hole in the Soviet lines west of Moscow turned into. I managed to make it a little bit wider and I found some unemployed units to send into the spear tip. Some of them aren't all that strong and won't hold their positions very long when they get attacked in the upcoming Soviet turn. I feel like I need to find a couple of divisions to back up the folks that are there now. I'll take a look around and see what's available.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's now T98 round 2 and this is what is going on near Moscow right now. I managed to get a good surround going on several small Soviet groups and I'm in the process of destroying them. I captured a couple of river crossings and I'm trying to trap the Soviet units on the west side of the river so I can destroy them before they can escape to the east side of the river. I'm optimistic that I can do that in several cases.

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[larryfulkerson]

It's still T98 round 2 and this is what is going on near Rostov right now. I managed to capture an intact river crossing at Tsinlyanskaya and I've moved some Hungarian and Romanian troops across it and Elmer has dispatched several Soviet units to contest my small footprint on the south side of the major river. The supply level is 20 on the repaired rail parts and 7 at the southmost extent of my footprint. The weather has turned nasty and there's plenty of rain going on all over the map. You can see where the muddy hexes are from the color difference(s).

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