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Week 59- Another week Another pocket - 1/9/2012 4:54:08 AM   
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North of Ryazan another 24 divisions including the entire 29th and part of 43rd and 60th Armies are surrounded by Pelton's panzer armies. The Red Army defenders in the area that attempted to prevent an encirclement were cast aside without any real difficulty. A subsequent counterattack by over 100,000 Soviet troops against the lone 7th Panzer Division that would have broken the pocket failed.

Numerous panzer divisions have been refueled presumably for deeper penetrations in the weeks ahead and frustration is mounting rapidly at STAVKA.
By the numbers the Germans lost over 32,000 men in the week's offensives, but over a quarter million Red Army troops will simply throw away their rifles in the coming week. Soviet divisional reserves are rapidly disappearing and although a pullback will greatly favor the Axis forces, there may be no choice as clearly Pelton is trying to isolate Moscow again.

The Pocket


Red Army Forces in the south cross back over the Don.



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RE: Week 59- Another week Another pocket - 1/9/2012 3:43:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Germans are strong in 1942 (as it should be). I'm seeing the same on my game At least I see you are preserving the Guards Rifle and Tank Corps. Patience... you should be putting them to good use starting in september (maybe).

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Week 60 - 1/14/2012 7:15:03 PM   
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A similar situation to the end of the German Summer '41 campaign sees panzers north and east of Moscow positioning themselves to encircle multiple Soviet fronts.

The battle lines are drawn as the German mobile formations have driven northeast of Vladimir.

A general pullback takes place west of Moscow to put units there closer to railheads where they can be evacuated. One bit of good news is that our 9th Tank Corps drove through a hole in the German lines to reestablish contact with the pocket created the previous week. The general defense plan now in the area is to defend northwest along the Rybinsk Line and establish blocking positions with guards rifle corps in the Vladimir-Ivanovo sector. Troops that have withdrawn from the western area will establish new positions east of the Moskva-Volga Canal. This will create something of a rectangular box that will be defended in favorable terrain as much as possible.

Starting situation in the area around Moscow


Ending situation in the area around Moscow


The Volkhov Front is ordered to make attacks where possible to discomfort the enemy and draw off German troops that would otherwise be committed to their main effort if possible.


To the far south, 18th and 40th Armies along with 2nd Shock now have support from 2nd Tank Army and make similar attacks to keep enemy forces there at least guessing what may happen next.

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Week 61- Farewell Moscow - 1/16/2012 8:39:48 PM   
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For the second time in the war, and with the Summer '42 campaign only half over, Moscow is abandoned to the enemy to avoid another large encirclement. Once again the pocket is sealed around elements of the 39th Army.

Along the Volkhov Front, Zhukov's forces supported by Pavel Rotmistrov's 1st Tank Army attack and force the retreat of six Wehrmacht divisions, but it scarely seems to have an effect on the general situation.

Further south, Ivan Chernyakhovsky's 3rd Shock Army pushes back a pair of Hungarian divisons supporting the German 71st Infantry Division. South of that, 18th Army supported by Semyon Bogdanov's 2nd Tank Army push a pair of German divisions from the southern bank of the Kalitva.

The Red Air Force is in need of some reorganization. The original aircraft at the beginning of the war which are no longer produced, such as the MiG-3 and SB-2 are shrinking in numbers and as a result with an almost empty pool, not all air regiments can be maintained at full strength. Some MiG regiments are converted to La-5 and Yak-7B. American aircraft such as A-20's and B-25's replace a few depleted SB-2 regiments.

The Red Army continues with the Corps conversion program. Current corps units consist of 26 Guards Rifle, 5 Rifle, 15 Tank, 6 Guards Cavalry and 7 Cavalry Corps.

Starting situation at Moscow


Ending situation at Moscow


Volkhov Front northern battle


Volkhov Front southern battle


3rd Shock Army in action


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RE: Week 61- Farewell Moscow - 1/16/2012 9:38:03 PM   
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RE: Week 61- Farewell Moscow - 1/16/2012 10:48:20 PM   
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Ground and Air Losses
I was prepared to lose 2 million men to Pelton in the summer campaign. Now that it is half over, losses so far are a little over 1 million, in addition to the men he will collect in the pocket. So it's actually going to be pretty close, barring an unexpected catastrophe that could happen any turn...

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RE: Week 61- Farewell Moscow - 1/16/2012 11:53:47 PM   
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RE: Week 61- Farewell Moscow - 1/17/2012 9:34:45 PM   
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Week 62- To the Volga - 1/21/2012 4:33:20 AM   
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The Finnish and German divisions march east against the Leningrad Front. The front has suffered a major loss of rifle divisions in the course of the German summer offensive. Consequently, STAVKA finds it necessary to release the nine rifle divisions of Kirill Moskalenko's 61st Army to that front. This leaves three STAVKA armies in the Yaroslavl-Ivanovo sector: Pavel Belov's 32nd Army, Ivan Fedyuninsky's 34th Army and Ivan Konev's 48th Army.

With Moscow now in the hands of the fascists, the Soviet withdrawal towards the Volga continues. The Nerl River, with the cities of Yaroslavl and Ivanovo are the last defensive positions before the Volga itself. The bulk of Northwest, Kalinin, Western and Bryansk fronts, themselves shrinking in men and divisions, are being squeezed into a rapidly shrinking area west of the Volga.

German mobile forces in the immediate area that have been positively identified are nine panzer, six motorized, and two SS motorized divisions. Additional German infantry divisions southeast of Moscow have also been freed for duty as the pocket containing the remnants of our 39th Army along with an assortment of formations have been wiped out.

We are forced to abandon Vladimir as part of the general move to the Nerl.

Starting situation Yaroslavl-Ivanovo


Ending situation


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Week 63- Bear Claws - 1/21/2012 10:19:40 PM   
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Pelton's ever reliable SS motorized divisions lead a larger mobile group intent on slicing off yet another portion of the Red Army in the Yaroslavl-Ivanovo area. Totenkopf advances to within 20 miles of their objective with the Wiking just behind. But it is a very narrow penetration.


The Red Army responded by counterattacking. Totenkopf was the first to come under fire from units of five Soviet armies.


The result of this was a retreat of 50 miles by the SS division. After a brief move forward, another assault ensued. Wiking, 18th Panzer and 36th Motorized were also put to flight.


To the southeast of the main battle area, reports from 3rd and 4th Panzer Divisions indicated they too were under heavy attack and were being compelled to withdraw. To the west, 22nd Panzer was also driven back.


In the area of the Volkhov Front, 14th Panzer along with two infantry divisions put up a strong fight, but were also driven from their position.


STAVKA concludes that the retreat of five panzer and two SS divisions in this set of battles might have a significant impact on future German plans in this area.

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Week 64 - 1/28/2012 4:47:14 PM   
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Now into September, and there is finally a lull in the action, or is it the calm before the storm? No major actions, but a few Soviet attacks continue in the south. The Western Front in the north is going to remain in place for another week. If things are still quiet there in another week, it will work their way in a southern direction to secure a more stable defense. The Bryansk Front is already moving in that direction.

Nothing worth showing on the map, so here are some numbers.

OOB


Losses


Destroyed units


Production




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Week 65 The Panzers Resurgent - 1/28/2012 6:29:53 PM   
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Pelton unleashes another panzersturm in the south with 15 German mobile divisions supported by Hungarian and Italian fast formations. Even though an attack wasn't unexpected in the general area, the amount of forces for a deeper defense simply aren't there. A total of 11 trapped formations have been caught in the snare, and an attempt to free them with a Soviet counterattack on the GrossDeutschland Division fails.

The situation will fast become critical for this sector as the amount of reinforcements available is meager. A withdrawal to the Don is called for, but the Pelton's forces will undoubtedly be able to raise havoc in the area until the weather changes.

And that is not for another five weeks.




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Week 66 - 1/28/2012 11:15:18 PM   
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Another panzer pocket, now another 23 division equivalents.



At this stage, it's looking like the best I can hope for is a draw in the game. Given all the lost divisions of the summer, almost all APs for the next couple months are going to have to go into raising raw rifle divisions and that's going to put the creation of artillery divisions on hold.

Now three more weeks of clear weather.

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Week 67 - 2/1/2012 4:30:34 AM   
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The Germans pour over the Don at Martynovskoe. Two SS divisions and at least ten panzer divisions are involved in this latest offensive action.

But at least summer is over, and the period of good weather is coming to an end soon. It will be interesting to see how far south Pelton intends to advance.


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RE: Week 67 - 2/1/2012 5:45:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Pelton is certainly doing well, but I would not despair of some kind of victory yet. My losses in 1942 were also pretty massive, but not fatal. Of course my game was pre-1.05 and now things are stacked more in favor of the Germans...

I don't think I would do much to discourage Pelton from racing into the Caucauses. As long as you make some kind of effort to defend the mountains and Baku, all he is doing is wasting his time down there as far as I am concerned; if you play your cards right, maybe he'd even be setting himself up for getting these forces cut off.

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RE: Week 67 - 2/1/2012 6:20:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just remember: the defense of the Caucuses only truly begins along the foothills and the Terek river. The rest of it up north doesn't matter. And try to keep the rail line to Astrakhan open as long as possible. Once cut, reinforcing the region is difficult.

If he takes the plunge, reinforce this area with a lot of airpower. His logistics will be terrible and he'll have to rely heavily on air transport. Make him pay the price for that.

Build some artillery divisions. Even one a turn adds up after a while. And keep your armor well in the rear and in reserve mode. Don't let yourself get decisively committed with them, use them to hit and and run. They have no business defending up front.

You need to run away from Rostov. That position is untenable and will simply get rolled up. They should hightail it at least to the Yeya and probably straight to Krasnodar. The guys on the lower Don will also likely be rolled up in the direction of Stalingrad. Start putting guys on the marsh terrain behind the Volga river south of Stalingrad. You need to keep him away from that rail line.



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RE: Week 67 - 2/3/2012 2:07:55 AM   
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Week 68 - 2/3/2012 4:41:26 AM   
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October.

Voroshilovsk is the latest city to be visited by the Wehrmacht as the drive to the south continues. The Transcaucasus Front rolls back to the vicinity of Krasnodar. Meanwhile, the Red Army reoccupied an abandoned Boguchar.

The latest rifle corps TO&E is released which will provide a bit more strength to the Red Army. Heavy tank regiments and artillery divisions are now available. Meanwhile, nine Soviet mechanized brigades are either in the field or being outfitted.

Production of the IL-2 has ended and IL-2M has begun at Kirov. Our two plants there will turn out 108 of these aircraft each week. Yak-1 production has ended. The Yak-1B and Yak-9 are also now produced and will quickly reach a rate of 51 and 26 per week respectively.

There are still 49 MiG-3 regiments, and the replacement pool has long since dried up. It will be necessary to convert about 2/3 of the MiG-3 regiments to other aircraft types so that the remaining regiments can be brought to full strength.

1st Tank Army is transferred from the Volkhov Front area to Stalingrad.

To the north, one significant improvement in the overall situation. The direct rail line between Ivanovo and Arzamas had been damaged and moving troops into that area from the south was not possible except by a very long diversion to the east. The line is being repaired by 1st NKPS and the line restored to service next week.

Only one week of clear weather remains.


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RE: Week 68 - 2/3/2012 5:32:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		I will be interested to see what he plans to do from Voroshilovsk. I don't think I've seen anyone take it in an AAR, but probably because most people realize it is pointless--if not dangerous--to go down there. I expect that Pelton, who has played so many games, is just looking for a new strategy to try out...

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RE: Week 68 - 2/3/2012 8:14:18 AM   
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Week 69- 8.10.42 - 2/3/2012 3:31:15 PM   
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All eyes are on the weather gods to save what remains of the USSR in the next week. Now in the last week of clear weather, 1st Tank Army advances along the east bank of the Don to make contact with Hungarian and Slovakian mobile forces. The Transcaucasus Front advances back to the north as it has lost contact with German units closing on Krasnodar. It appears that some sort of pullback took place.

West of Stalingrad, the Red Army crosses back over the Chir to re-establish contact with the enemy.

In the north, another small bit of progress is made as Ivan Konev's 48th Army (STAVKA) with over 120,000 men has been pulled from the Yaroslavl-Ivanovo sector and been put on the rail lines to prepare for possible offensive operations once winter arrives.

At Kuybyshev, the 1st Artillery Division is being organized. 10th Tank Corps of the 2nd Tank Army is renamed 3rd Guards Tank Corps.


Caucasus Area


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RE: Week 68 - 2/3/2012 3:55:49 PM   
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I will be interested to see what he plans to do from Voroshilovsk. I don't think I've seen anyone take it in an AAR, but probably because most people realize it is pointless--if not dangerous--to go down there. I expect that Pelton, who has played so many games, is just looking for a new strategy to try out...


It may not be the last Soviet city you've never seen taken before. I may be setting new records in the amount of territory given up by a Soviet player in an AAR, I'm living hand-to-mouth on APs, the manpower replacement situation is very bad, and every newly raised division is full of soldiers trying to figure out which end of the rifle to point at the enemy.

On the positive side, in the center of the front, both Volkhov and Voronezh Fronts with their guards rifle corps and shock armies are at full strength. The Don Front between them is getting back up to strength, along with the Stalingrad Front. The mobile troops of 1st and 2nd Tank Armies are in decent shape, and once Issa Pliev's 52nd Army gets their tank brigades converted to corps, that will be in effect 3rd Tank Army. The worst is over in terms of the Soviet national morale level, and is at 42 and rising each month until Spring of '44.

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RE: Week 68 - 2/4/2012 5:44:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS
It may not be the last Soviet city you've never seen taken before. I may be setting new records in the amount of territory given up by a Soviet player in an AAR, I'm living hand-to-mouth on APs, the manpower replacement situation is very bad, and every newly raised division is full of soldiers trying to figure out which end of the rifle to point at the enemy.


I think you're doing fine, against an excellent player under a German-friendly patch. Just hang on until June 1943 and you should be able to start slapping him around.

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RE: Week 67 - 2/4/2012 7:21:15 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx

Just remember: the defense of the Caucuses only truly begins along the foothills and the Terek river. The rest of it up north doesn't matter. And try to keep the rail line to Astrakhan open as long as possible. Once cut, reinforcing the region is difficult.

If he takes the plunge, reinforce this area with a lot of airpower. His logistics will be terrible and he'll have to rely heavily on air transport. Make him pay the price for that.

Build some artillery divisions. Even one a turn adds up after a while. And keep your armor well in the rear and in reserve mode. Don't let yourself get decisively committed with them, use them to hit and and run. They have no business defending up front.

You need to run away from Rostov. That position is untenable and will simply get rolled up. They should hightail it at least to the Yeya and probably straight to Krasnodar. The guys on the lower Don will also likely be rolled up in the direction of Stalingrad. Start putting guys on the marsh terrain behind the Volga river south of Stalingrad. You need to keep him away from that rail line.




Thanks, I'm building one artillery division per tun as you suggest. The arms points can't keep up with building out more than a fraction of one a week anyways.

At this stage, Pelton appears to be pulling back from his southern advance, although it could be a trap to pull me in. The rail line from Stalingrad to Astrakhan seems safe enough for now.

I'm going to have to figure out to handle all the overloaded armies now with the latest patch, and the simple fact is I can't afford to burn a bunch of APs to fix it.

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RE: Week 67 - 2/4/2012 7:51:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Put Zhukov in STAVKA for the time being. That's the cheap and dirty fix, or at least a way to mitigate overload.

Over time as you flip over to corps your armies consisting of divisions will reduce the command load. (From 6 to 4.) If you've already got armies up to cap with nothing but corps...yeah, you're stuck there and will have to eat the cost of reassignment.

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Week 70 - 2/4/2012 8:42:37 PM   
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Mud.

Glorious mud.

The only activity taking place is in the south as some territory is regained and contact with the enemy regained in places.

2nd Artillery Division is organized. 1st Artillery Division is still outfitting. 13th-15th Mechanized Brigades are formed.
16 guards rifle corps have upgraded since the start of the month to the latest (October) version.

North of the Volkhov Front, Pliev's 52nd Army converts three tank brigades to create 3rd Tank Corps. This is the first tank corps assigned to that army, and brings to fifteen the Soviet total. With 10 cavalry corps, the mobile forces are gathering slowly but surely. 3rd Tank Corps receives the first Guards Heavy Tank regiments


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Week 71- Oasis in the desert - 2/5/2012 2:24:30 AM   
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A quiet week, but 185 Admin Points are available as a result of Southwestern Front arriving. It feels like finding an oasis in the middle of the desert.

52nd Army organizes three new tank corps, bringing their total to four. Another six rifle divisions are formed, along with another artillery division and three mechanized brigades. Ten new tank regiments are also being organized. Some 3,500 T-34s are now equipping Red Army units.

The one downside to the increased number of mechanized and tank units along with moving 1st Tank Army beyond the rail network is the strain on the truck inventory. The vehicle pool has fallen from 132k to 112k in the last two weeks. Further mechanization may have to be limited until Lend Lease shipments pick up in January.

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RE: Week 71- Oasis in the desert - 2/5/2012 3:51:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		Try to steer more tank corps into tank armies, and yeah, I know that's a hefty AP expense. That mech/admin bonus is kind of a big deal. It makes your historical tank leaders competitive with German ones.

Failing that, guards or shock armies give you an admin bonus which is more useful for mobile units than rifle units, imo. I'm actually planning on putting all my cav corps into shock armies until I run out of those. I figure you can squeeze them all in about 4 shock armies and not be overloaded.





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RE: Week 71- Oasis in the desert - 2/5/2012 5:16:19 AM   
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Try to steer more tank corps into tank armies, and yeah, I know that's a hefty AP expense. That mech/admin bonus is kind of a big deal. It makes your historical tank leaders competitive with German ones.

Failing that, guards or shock armies give you an admin bonus which is more useful for mobile units than rifle units, imo. I'm actually planning on putting all my cav corps into shock armies until I run out of those. I figure you can squeeze them all in about 4 shock armies and not be overloaded.


I was a fan of tank armies before, but not near so with a command cap of 15 now. Three corps isn't going to have close to the effect that twice as many would have under the old version. And getting Guards Tank Armies with only 3 corps is going to be brutal when the required army victory total didn't drop with the command cap. Same could be said for any army you're trying to get to guards status.

At least 4 tank corps can go in a regular army without an overload.

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RE: Week 71- Oasis in the desert - 2/5/2012 6:19:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thing is...guards status for tank armies doesn't mean a thing now. The bonus remains the same. It's purely an honorific.

I get what you're saying about the command capacity, but it had to happen, and if you look at a tank army as an equivalent of a panzer corps, it makes sense. 3 corps is ok, really, it's the most you can stack in a single hex anyways. I'd rather have 3 corps with +1 to their mech and admin stats than 4 without. Now if the combined arms HQs could squeeze in more corps, then it'd be a tougher choice.





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