Senno
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ORIGINAL: squatter I'm sure you've thought of all of this anyway, but in my experience, giving him three clear hexes per turn of blizzard to advance into will take the sting off the worst of it (after December, blizzard effects ease off a little). I dug a prepared line around 12 hexes behind the initial front line to fall back to where possible. Get some divs broke down to regiments to help your Fort units doing that asap. Three hexes means his deliberate attacks are almost impossible. You'll have the patch before blizzard though, so shouldnt be as painful. Good terrain helps, obviously. Remember rivers freeze and are useless for defence in blizzard. That means the south is the hardest to defend. You can afford to let him make large salients in swathes of the mid/mid south map so you dont have to try and build a full fort line - that's impossible anyway. Come the spring, you'll appreciate having salients to attack anyways. Keep hitting him with cheap deliberate attacks all the way through the snow, if not one or two limited pocket offensives. Dont get caught with units the wrong side of a un-reduced pocket on the first turn of blizzard. Re: the Finns - they are become your best troops alongside your mountain units in blizzard. There's no way on earth he'll take Leningrad, or anything else in their sector. You can go over to the offensive with the Finns if he leaves anything north of their line, believe me. Push towards whatever that city is called in their zone through the snow and blizzard. Anything he throws at the Finns is a blessing as they're not being used elsewhere. Highly recommend two rows of forts in the crucial areas - I suspect the join between the Finns and AGN will be one - he might try at least to separate the Finns from the rest of your army that way. Regarding the fortified zones you're building - be sure to disband each of them just before he comes into contact with them too. Finally, urban hexes and towns with population 2 or above become gold dust for sheltering from blizzard attrition. Obviously try and keep your best units in them, and/or rotate battered units to these hexes behind the lines. Looking at your dniepre line, the hexes on HIS side of the river are actually better to defend in many cases, where they are woods or swamp, as the river itself will freeze and not offer any protection. Thanks for the advice, Squatter. Reading about how Oleg lined up 7200 guns against BA is intimidating. At this point, I'm not sure if ignoring the terrain, and just having my lines be as straight as possible might be the the way to go. Giving Oleg even more hexsides to attack from in deliberate attacks is a scary thought. The mobile defense seems a bit gamey also, but if I just sit there, he's gonna crush me along the whole line, for certain. I will disband the forts as he gets close, thanks for reminding me of that. The Panzers will be out of the line in population centers on reserve status. The turn is back with Oleg now, he might not get it back til Wednesday. Giving me a large amount of time to worry about the upcoming mud and blizzard, haha.... Next turn starts the full switchover to defense for me I think. I'm very late with it anyway, been trying to grab Leningrad and Moscow. I'm just going to leave Moscow for '42, if I have an army left.
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