Beethoven1
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This is my first attempt at a multiplayer game with WITE 2, playing one of the smaller more manageable scenarios (The Road to Leningrad), playing as the Soviets against AtAtack. Good luck and have fun! June 22, 1941, 4:13 AM Sir! Comrade Kuznetsov! Sir! General Fyodor Kuznetsov, commander of the Soviet Northwestern Front, slowly drifted into consciousness Sir! Wake up! Kuznetsov: "What... What in the name of... What ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE, COLONEL?" I am sorry sir, but we have received reports, 3 reports at the time that I left headquarters to fetch you, reports from our border guards that the Germans are attacking them in force. Kuznetsov: "What? A provocation, a raid, or a real attack?" Some of our border guards reported that they were being attacked with tanks, and they expected to be overrun shortly. This was about 15 minutes ago, and I left to wake you as soon as we had confirming reports from multiple commanders. Kuznetsov: "My God!" Within two minutes, Gen. Kuznetsov and Col. Morozov were sitting in a staff car racing towards the Northwestern Front Headquarters in Cesis, just to the north-east of Riga. Over the course of the next week, the Soviet defenses in the Baltic melted under the withering German surprise assault. A great tank battle was fought near Raseiniai, and although a few T-34s and KV-1s acquitted themselves well, they were quickly outmaneuvered, surrounded, and destroyed by German divisions that coordinated their attacks with radios. By the end of the week, Riga had fallen to aggressive German Panzer attacks, and much of the Front was encircled, had surrendered, or had routed and had only limited men and equipment left. Out of 35 engagements of a significant scale in the Baltic front, the Red Army had won only a single tactical tactical victory when the 28th Tank division held off an attack from the German 11th Infanterie-Division. But even in that battle, the Soviets lost more men than the Germans, and the even the heroic 28th Tank Division was now surrounded 50 kilometers behind the front lines, with little prospect for escape. In total, in the Northwestern Front alone, the Soviets had already lost 63,932 men, 1171 guns, 263 tanks, and 926 planes - not counting all the troops that were encircled! The situation was, at least, a bit less disastrous further inland near Vilnius. There, the Soviets still had a reasonable number of divisions which were not encircled - yet. However, they were at great risk of quick encirclement in a large salient, because to their south General Pavlov's Western Front had already lost Minsk. The only possibility was to try to withdraw as many troops as could be withdrawn from the Vilnius Salient and try to set up some sort of defensive line - somewhere or other. God only knew where that might be possible, given the unprecedented scale of the disaster so far.
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