Slitherine

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Soviet Air Commander
Axis seams intent on bombing the Yak 1 factories at Engels,etc. they can grow to 25 but are at 14 right now, they only need 1% damage to stop expansion. I've put two air bases covering the 2 city hexes, but it seams the Axis just does night bombing as well. I recommend filling all those airbases with good Fighters, and set some of then to night mission, and/or Both night and air. There is also PVO regiments, these seam better thanks to the 85mm anti air.

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Each Ground Commander is responsible for their own Tactical Air Operations and moving the Air Bases that belong to each Front. However, do not move Long Range Air Command bases, these are directly under the Air Marshal. Here are some pointers from one of our previous Air Marshals:

* If you ever attack anything, bomb the hex twice beforehand.

* Keep airbases around 5 hexes behind your front line, unless it is clear that that area will be overrun.

* Bunch your airbases up as close to each other as possible; mutual fighter protection.

* At the end of your turn, bomb all tank/mech units twice, and any threatening infantry units twice as much as possible.

* For bombing missions, don't do the auto mode: Hold shift, then right click the hex you want to bomb. That way you can choose which air units will take part. More than 200 bombers per attack is not that efficient. Il-2 are better against mech/tank units. Level bombers better against infantry.

* If it is likely that the Germans will use air supply in an area, make sure that bases with fighters with miles left in them are close by as much as possible.

* Only aircraft attached to a front can fly ground support for that front. So, within your command, make sure that each front has some air units, and that they are within range.

* You are free to transfer air regiments within and between the Bases and Fronts under your command to your liking. Try to maintain the following Air Base organization when possible:

IAD - Fighters AB
BAD - Bombers AB
DBAD - Long Range Bombers AB
TBAB - Heavy Bombers AB
SAD/VVS/PVO - Mixed (All types of AC) AB
VVS-ChF - Mixed Black Sea AB
VVS-KBF - Mixed Baltic AB

At the time of writing this report we have 2541 Fighters, 721 Tactical Bombers, 1955 Level Bombers, 166 Recon and 95 Transport aircraft, 5478 in total.

Current distribution of SAF Regiments is listed below.

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Soviet Supreme Commander
files will be with us by tomorrow, the axis team said....They ended their message with "Good Luck" .....
that is quite troublesome.

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Soviet Centre Commander
No German has yet crossed the Volga.
The Germans are massing on the other side in the Yaroslavl sector.
Mud is forecasted for next week, if that happens
we should be able to hold them back.

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Soviet South Commander
They have so much territory, I fear an attack on Gorky could be a very real possibility!
An attack at Rostov to the Don river would be easier for then and make it easier to contain the Southern front.

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Axis Supreme Commander
not one ground attack in their whole turn
37 ground bombings and 75 observations

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Soviet Supreme Commander
USSR will transform into a triumvirate. All three Marshals will discusss between themselves on what move to do is best.
But here are my orders ...

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ORIGINAL: Beria

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Soviet Supreme Commander
USSR will transform into a triumvirate. All three Marshals will discusss between themselves on what move to do is best.
But here are my orders ...

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Axis Supreme Commander
They have gone mad bombing the Finns - their air commander certainly has it in for them!
We can now use all those very short range Finnish fighters that would not get used otherwise

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Soviet Air Commander
Make sure when you do air attacks that they have fighter escort. This turn I made one false move with an unescorted bombing mission, result = disaster.

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Soviet Centre Commander
Looks like the Germans are digging in across the entire front. 40 miles east of Moscow they are building a proper fortified defensive line.

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Soviet South Commander
Recommend city of Murom be fortified, it will be hard to build a fort with mud but at least over a level 1 fort...

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ORIGINAL: Telemecus

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ORIGINAL: Beria

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Soviet Supreme Commander
USSR will transform into a triumvirate. All three Marshals will discusss between themselves on what move to do is best.
But here are my orders ...

This democracy is approved by Stalin

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Axis Supreme Commander
We can predict where they will fly now and try to build up heavy air losses for them there.
A lot of supply planes flown in though, we still have too little forward fighter cover.

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Axis Air Commander
Did our fighters intercept ?

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Axis Air Commander
Yes. Hungarians did a good job too

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Axis Supreme Commander
they are now attacking our airbases - but with ground bombing not airbase bombing
are they aware - we will let them know

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Axis Supreme Commander
they even reconned as far as Kiev

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ORIGINAL: Beria
T017 Soviet Recon

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Axis Supreme Commander
they even reconned as far as Kiev

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Soviet South Commander
with out a functioning rail east of the Volga.

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Soviet South Commander
Supreme commander, Comrades, we need to start preparing the Cavalry for the winter offensive, the Cavalry corps will be our most reliable mobile unit for this winter offensive and for all of 1942. As the regular tank corps that will be available in April 1942 will be kind of crap for a tank division standard, and pathetic if compared to a German panzer division.

What I recommend, is effective immediately during the mud, we must place all Cavalry formations far away from the front line, replaced by rifle brigades if possible,
and set in refit until they can form in to Cavalry corps in December, preferably, we should place the divisions in the Center Area, south of the Oka river so they can be distributed easily to any front. It's imperative that we do this as soon as possible, there seams to be a hard coded rule in the production system: only 200 cavalry squads can be created per logistic phase, for exe: During the refit phase, even if all the cavalry divisions are on refit and they all demand cavalry squads, exactly 200 cavalry squads will be created, and then during the regular replacement phase, again only 200 cavalry squads can be created.

In other words, failure to prepare our cav formations could mean we won't have enough Cav Corps to spreed out in vital sectors during the important December month, thus our offensive will lack the needed punch. With these good formations we can even perform successful hasty attacks on German infantry regiments!

Paired with this, we can count on a special Support Unit for this winter occasion, the sky battalion, if you check the manual, it states that this small SU can gain up to 3 times its original CV in battle during blizzard! Excellent to attach to the cav corps, what makes it a great efficient SU is also the fact is light on manpower and armaments, just less then 700 men total with few mortars. The only downside is that it's only possible to recruit it in November, thus only 3 effective turns of training. Even a quite depleted with relatively few Cavalry squads yet it still has 10 CV!

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Soviet South Commander
special attention should be given to the fully man rifle divisions that will arrive during the mud and snow. these are high morale, experience units, their placement for an offensive will be crucial, those of note in the next 3-4 turns are:

65th rifle division.
413th rifle
415th rifle
239th rifle
372nd rifle
17th Mountain cavlary division.

for turn 22, 6 great rifle division will arrive! but this will be way up in snow.
366th rifle
382nd ridle
390th rifle
385th rifle
387th rifle
391st rifle

and of course all naval rifle brigades, with high exp and morale, a very efficient use of command points.

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Axis Commander
For how many pockets we have made 3.5 mil seems low, I am guessing that is from them not fiddling with TOE's ?
So all hauls are averagely spread

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ORIGINAL: Beria

Ok so it did go so well for us - but 1941 never does! But reading back on the time I think the Soviet team ends the period streets ahead of where it started. it has started to ask the right questions, decide on the trade-offs that exist now even if they do not become apparent in many turns, and are starting to decide what to lose rather than having it decided for them. Choices are being made about industry, units and airgroups to be created and logistics and training behind. it is not just painting arrows in a map and praying they come true anymore.