Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Disgruntled Veteran

Really enjoy your AAR. Keep it up!

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ORIGINAL: Tophat1812

What does the breakthrough in the north look like now? You said 2 pz divs were forced to retreat? Did you widen the penetration so they can't easily be cutoff?

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ORIGINAL: ErsteKavallerieDiv

Did you reduce the TOE of artillery and AA units to 50%?

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ORIGINAL: Tophat1812

Can we get another whole front update in screenshots please?

Well its middle of September so a redeploy to the south and an attack might be te thing to shoot for,wish this was August but such is life right?

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ORIGINAL: Karri

His central front seems quite weak...but he should be able to strenghten it come mud. Dislodging the line before mud could be helpful for winter offensives...but you need tanks for that.

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ORIGINAL: Kamil

1. I think You have wasted your chance attacking in the north.
Nothing to gain there but opportunity to loose manpower and time in futile attacks on forested and flooded hexes.

2. He is stronger than You anywhere but in the north, but prefers You to think otherwise and catch You flat-footed without forts and with low body count once he switches to attack.

3. You have one more chance for meaningful offensive, but only if You play with fire and make Yourself weak everywhere but in area of Your attack.

4. I am afraid, that if You persist in Your current strategy, game's result will be either major or minor Soviet victory, and I would put my money on major.

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ORIGINAL: ErsteKavallerieDiv

I still see many options for greatly improving your position:
a) North of Lake Peipus, there are about 16 divisions, many of them Panzer and Mot. This deployment is strange; I would start fortifying a straight line there, with Infantry only, plus some engineers. Then put them in static mode. Maybe another division in reserve mode. Send all Panzer and Mot to the south.
b) Northwest of Pskov: Too many colours (five armies). Again, extract all Panzer and Mot divisions, build a straight line southeast. The southmost corps of 18th Army should retreat to the western banks, which are already at fort level 2.
c) Further downsouth, the line already exists to some extent. The Velikije Luki bulge could be removed to spare some units.
d) 9th and 2th Army would need some minor alignment. Static mode preferred.
e) Free the mobile units, put others in static mode to reduce attrition losses.
f) Then form a Schwerpunkt in the south to bag some enemy armies, just like you did in the past.

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ORIGINAL: janh

Ying yang, I need to remember this expression. Very funny. I find your manpower is also quite low, have you already disbanded useless stuff like a few airbases and such?

The thought with leaving at least some Panzers in the line is probably right. What you need is again a surprise moment like that just after spring. Else you'll have to keep eating through thick carpets, and the enemy will likely dig faster than you can penetrate them. That's seems to be the catch a LG presently -- if there was not already at least one more lvl 3 fort belt visible, my take would be to keep grinding until the dam breaks. Just like the last huge pocket, once you are through the fortifications and have cleared just one good route, the Red Army will fold like a carthouse in the surroundings. If at all, the only way I may guess to be left for LG would be the indirect route via Novgorod. But it is swampy and bad, and would hand all advantages to the defender. Might be an option for infantry combined with general winter, though?

Else, I agree with Karri - the better terrain for mobile blitz combat and pocketing is in the center and south. He has a lot lot of units in the marshes between the Crimean isthmus, and Djenprpropetrovsk. Slow retreat terrain, coupled with a natural gauge in its rear: the coastline angling ENE to Stalino. I might look at the option of a thrust via the Kharkov-Belgorod Sector then towards Stalino and Rostov...? Even if he retreats his units into the Crimea, these will be a long way off to the reinforce other sectors... Plus that one would take of his (presumably) strongest units...

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

I would change over to defensive now. You should be close to 4 mil during 43.

Set-up armys for reserve mode. You should be able to hold ground during 43. Much better then late game