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2x3+ 004 Axis Karelia - 7/26/2019 5:52:21 PM

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2x3+ 004 Axis Finland - 7/26/2019 6:57:54 PM

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Attached is a picture of the withdrawing Finnish SUs - a lot of Finnish manpower walks away just in the many withdrawing units. These have been set to no replacements and their commander encouraged to use them first and foremost where they can.

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2x3+ 004 Axis North - 7/26/2019 6:59:25 PM

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To see this turn in the AAR by the Axis North commander click here

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RE: 2x3+ 004 Axis North - 7/26/2019 8:31:03 PM

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2x3+ 004 Axis North-Centre Rail Repair - 7/27/2019 10:36:59 AM

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2x3+ 004 Axis Centre - 7/27/2019 10:38:22 AM

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T004 Axis South - 7/27/2019 4:49:51 PM

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2x3+ 004 Air - 7/27/2019 7:06:53 PM

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RE: 2x3+ 004 Air - 7/28/2019 2:38:57 PM

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Just going back on old team emails I found this snippet in response to a question about reconnaisance which I thought worth sharing here again.

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In the case of Axis there is so much recon available that I can do as much as I need AND you can do any you want - so no need for exclusivity or allocation. For the Soviets it would be a different matter.

The recon rules I use are

i) Get all airbases in range of front or which can be bombed to detection five (to know about the airgroups on them)
ii) Get all other airbases to detection level 3 (keeping track of airbases)[updated based on patches]
iii) All other units to detection four in clear or two if close (keeping track, help interdiction)[two-thirds of units on detection level 4 will be on at least detection level 1 next turn]
iv) Recon to know which units are at the front (ground commanders tactical use)
v) Recon to see if a hex will be intercepted (to fly unescorted day bombing)
vi) Recon to work out opponents % required to fly air doctrine (basically find a spot which only one airgroup can intercept and does, wait for them to lose some interceptors and repeat until they no longer do, check other interceptors still fly from the same base so it is not a fuel problem, and then repeat with others to get better and better ideas of what it is)
vii) Recon to degrade enemy interceptors
viii) Recon stacked on airbases to dilute enemy bombing of airbases from good aircraft

I see many others only use reconnaisance air groups for number iv - which is only a tiny part of what they are useful for. i-vi all provide extra information, so when someone says other uses of recon do not provide extra information they are wrong.

vii though is the interesting one. Looking back I cannot see any mention of this in the Matrix forums before then - so I may have been responsible for transmitting this monster into the Matrix world. I understand it to be a tactic of overwhelming an enemy fighter group, or fighter groups on one air base, with a large volume of reconnaisance flights to reduce the number of ready aircraft in the enemy. This was many-to-few. Some how in Matrix this transmuted to many-to-many, or trying to fatigue all enemy fighter groups with recon flights! Recon Spam was born!

EDIT: another use that has become apparent since is to find hexes and so flight paths with least flak.

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2x3+ 004 Soviet Finland - 7/28/2019 3:40:20 PM

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2x3+ 004 Soviet North - 7/28/2019 3:42:04 PM

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quote:

Acting Supreme Soviet Commander
Significant Panzer Divisions have broken out and captured Gdov and threaten Narva. The Luga river must be held and the Leningrad rail and supply lines must stay intact to Leningrad... do not let Leningrad be isolated or the Volkhov river be crossed.

Points for leadership changes are prioritised over fortifying Leningrad

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RE: 2x3+ 004 Soviet North - 7/28/2019 6:51:05 PM

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2x3+ 004 Soviet Centre - 7/28/2019 6:56:19 PM

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{@Telemecus - yes working for me now - thanks}

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2x3+ 004 Soviet South - 7/29/2019 4:59:46 PM

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quote:

Acting Supreme Soviet Commander
Situation critical ... the Nazi Panzer Group South is at the gates to Krivoi Rog, completely overrunning Yuzhny Bug river. This has created a huge pocket around Odessa surrounding the 9th army and over 30 divisions of Southwestern Front. 9th army is order to fortify Odessa and will be supplied by sea until the seige is lifted.

Evacuate everything at once toward the Dnepr river, making a retreat in step to slow down the Fascists while you build your Main Line of Resistance along the Dnepr. Your first objective is to preserve your army. The aim is not make a stand at those temporary lines, but to buy time as you bring reinforcements to the Dnepr and build your forts.

The Dnepr, however is to be held and fought for. Make the Fascists pay in blood for every meter they pass over the River! The Ingulets river must be held and no German divisions must be allowed adjacent to Dnepropetrovsk or Zaporohye.

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2x3+ 004 Soviet Air - 7/30/2019 10:09:16 AM

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There are some scattered recon airgroups, some fighters over Moscow, and some bombers near Voronezh.

But other than that the whole Soviet air power is in the national reserve.

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RE: 2x3+ 004 Soviet Air - 7/30/2019 6:45:23 PM

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Still a lot of recon being lost

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2x3+ 005 Axis Allocations - 7/30/2019 8:29:20 PM

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For information only - attached turn 5 Axis team allocations

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RE: 2x3+ 005 Axis Allocations - 7/30/2019 8:34:11 PM

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For information only - North-Centre command boundary attached

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RE: 2x3+ 005 Axis Allocations - 7/30/2019 8:35:27 PM

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For information only - Centre-South command boundary attached

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2x3+ 005 Axis Karelia - 7/30/2019 8:38:06 PM

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2x3+ 005 Axis North - 7/30/2019 8:43:11 PM

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To see this turn in the AAR by the Axis North commander click here

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RE: 2x3+ 005 Axis North - 7/31/2019 2:40:54 AM

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Do you have a rail network map for this period?

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RE: 2x3+ 005 Axis North - 7/31/2019 10:05:33 AM

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Bombing of Osinovets

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RE: 2x3+ 005 Axis North - 7/31/2019 10:07:17 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Seminole
Do you have a rail network map for this period?

Your wish is our command!

One FBD repairs 8 rail hexes on its own

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2x3+ 005 Axis Centre - 7/31/2019 10:24:23 AM

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2x3+ 005 Axis South - 7/31/2019 10:27:01 AM

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Rail repair in the south is well behind other typical games

But you can repair 6 continuous rail hexes in a line in the south too!

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RE: 2x3+ 005 Axis South - 7/31/2019 3:52:32 PM

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2x3+ 005 Axis Air - 7/31/2019 5:21:48 PM

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With only three enemy fighter air groups on the map just near Moscow I asked the rest of the team should we refrain from taking advantage for fair game play reasons.

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I see no reason to have mercy on them for having no fighter cover... Lets bomb...

My team mates are a blood thirsty lot!

The result was massing all of the german fighters for sweeps of the few fighters near Moscow. Mass undisturbed ground bombing of their units. And back to bombing some of their industry.