larryfulkerson
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Joined: 4/17/2005 From: Tucson, AZ Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: LLv34_Snefens Playing solitaire can cause you to kid yourself into assuming too much. Why would anyone restrict themself to only attack across the bridges? Why have the German player slugged his way through Kiev, when he could simply cross river SE of the city and surround the whole lot? Further down the river the entire stretch from Kremenchug to Dnepropetrovsk is basically undefended and the whole front could have been rolled up and Kharkov captured in a couple of weeks. How does the military saying goes: "Reinforce succes, not failure"? There seems to have been put too much force into these attrition battles, instead of through the open spaces. See, this is the reason I lose at FitE. You guys can see things that I'm blind to. You're absolutely correct and I'm almost ashamed to say I never even considered it ( crossing somewhere except at the bridges )....I guess I'm still a newbie. quote:
ORIGINAL: glvaca Honestly, I think the Germans [have] had it. The losses you sustained will never be replaced and the Russians are almost ready for the winter offensive and still almost full strength. You're in for a very long winter Question for you, do you feel that pushing so hard regardless of losses was worth it in terms of victory objectives captured? I.e., did the replacement objectives captured (Smolensk, Kiev, etc..) reduced the Soviet replacement rate enough to justify the cost? My intent, as the Axis, was to capture the victory objectives, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, etc. , specifically in order to reduce the number of Soviet Rifle Squads I would have to face through the entire war ( there are still some 370 turns left ) and I felt if I could reduce the amount of squads he, the Soviet dude, got by even 50 per turn that's 50 times 370 = um.....a large number of squads , not quite 19,000 I'm guessing. I think also that: (1) if I had pushed harder, moved faster, during the early turns perhaps I could have captured more soviet units and wouldn't have had to face them later on. (2) I think maybe attempting to take Leningrad only from the SouthWest may have been a mistake....it may have been easier to take if I forced him to defend both rivers ( SE and SW ). (3) and as Snefens pointed out....there are tactical / strategic lessons that I still need to learn ( make your own bridges if need be, attack where he ain't, etc. ) So I'm thinking it's impossible for the Axis to win at this juncture and I'm thinking the Axis dude should concede defeat.
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