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Well the siege of Vladivostok shall begin its going to be bloody and brutal and be the Soviet Union's equivalent of the Battle of Stalingrad, which is still ongoing as of December 1942.
But first it's going to be tedious and repetitive. For like a year 
Maybe, but maybe not. Supply shortage negates the huge firepower advantage that SOV has, so then it is just AV and IJ can match/beat the AV numbers. If he drops forts each attack, then 15 or so attacks (max) and it should be done once supply is low. This is like CK only less AV ... I think totally doable once the firepower is negated.
If it gives any sense of comparison, in my test, it took roughly 5 months for over 20 IJA divisions, with numerous supporting tanks & artillery, and bombers, with a December ‘41 start. For the Soviet, there were roughly 3000 AV and 300k supplies in Voroshilov/Vladivostok.
Roughly an attack per week, massive casualties at first, but supplies dropped fast, and casualties were less severe once the lack of supply showed (and with reduced forts).
Off course, it was the starting ‘41 Rifle squads, with partly disabled units. Voroshilov might have higher forts in your game, and there might be more Soviet AV (supplies, is the Intel at 1 trillion yen). Your units might be of higher XP too, overall, given your use of them earlier.
May i ask have you used naval bombardements ? Battleship bombardements usually vaporize supplies real fast. Desertwolf could use Yamato and Nagato sisters at max range untill coastal guns are destroyed or disabled and then bring in smaller gun battleships. Park some AKE's at Rashin and start daily battleship bombardements imo but you gotta sacrifice some ships to mines first so big guns dont hit them
Yeah, I did, but without Yamato and Musashi. I first used the IJN to take Sakhalin and all the ports, though. I mostly used the Ise & Hyuga classes at Vlad, figuring they would have a lesser impact if they were damaged than the Kongos. This limited somewhat the results.
When I dared come closer than max range, I usually got some hefty damage. No penetrating hits, probably too far for that, but the Sys dmg accumulating from a couple bombardments was enough to send the ships to the RSY for two weeks. Otherwise, the very occasional mine hits was annoying.
Bear in mind the premise was different. DesertWolf has finished the conquest of the SRA, so he may afford more damage to his battleships, while my test was to see how long it’d take, without completely wasting the IJN and 12 main assault divisions, and how much the Allies could improve their situation (without going all-in on the build-up).
ÉDIT: I also don’t pretend to have played perfectly. I did not change a lot of leaders, I churned out turns quite fast. A more careful and detail-oriented manner might have changed a month, probably.
From the Soviet side, I started moving troops back from Voroshilov to Vladivostok when forts were down to 3, gradually, starting the day after a big attack. When I saw a move icon from the Japanese side, I launched another shock attack, to see if it could win the day and provoke a rout, but all it did was destroy a lot of already disabled squads.
< Message edited by Ambassador -- 3/1/2021 6:57:51 PM >
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