Stelteck
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At this point of the situation, i thought i have 3 viable strategies : - Hard Defense of Moscow. - Elastic Defense of Moscow & South strategy. - Hard Defense of Leningrad. Hard Defense of Moscow means evacuating troops from Leningrad and scrapping south front to regroup all troops to moscow for a desesperate but determined defense. I discarded this option. First it is probably too late, all ennemy troops are in position to attack it, and my troops are not. Second, i already did this strategy in my last game and do not really want to do it again. The south Strategy means evacuating leningrad, trying to slow down thing at moscow (with no intention of holding), but use the fact that the ennemy have few units in the south to hold maximum ground here, stalino, rostov, Voronev, etc.... Renforcement would be sent to the south as possible. This strategy is very interesting. If i was a real life general, i would have taken it. Looking at raw number, the fall of moscow and Leningrad will not prevent my armies to built and fight in the future years. In 1942, the battle in the south will be intense, but i will have a chance in the long run. Unfortunately, victory conditions in the bitter end scenario is hard for me. With Moscow and Leningrad for 3 years, the ennemy will grab so much victory points it would be really hard to catch him, even if i took berlin around the historical date. Last scenario, is the Hard Defense of Leningrad. This scenario is also quite interesting because now my opponent have a lot of things to do. Capturing Moscow, going south, and more important, join the Finn to encercle leningrad, thought difficult defensive ground He also really HAVE to take Leningrad, because if he do not do it, he will be in difficult situation when winter come. It is a high risk high reward strategy. I have a bit chance to have a lots of troops encercled around Leningrad. Chances of success are quite low, relative to the previous one, but it is my only chance to keep some victory point in accordance with the bitter end scenario. It is also consistent with my initial strategy. So i choosed, the Lenigrad Defense.
< Message edited by Stelteck -- 4/12/2017 8:33:50 AM >
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