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ORIGINAL: AlbertN
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Opinion 2: That is something that goes both ways but I deeply preferred the WITE1 approach to morale and movement - and I believe Admin Movement should not be viable when too close to the enemy. Given I'll benefit of that as well, that infantry from the south is to march by that armoured corp and deliberate attack it, I think... but in general Admin Movement paired up with 'getting to the enemy' allows grand sweeps and maneuvers, and to attack easily and cheaply even with units that are miles and miles away. That, teaming up with the fact to move offroad has the same cost no matter the troop quality makes some operational ordeals ... iffy. - I firmly believe that Admin Movement should not be enabled if within 3 hexes of the enemy or so; and adding it as one of the T1 special rules for Germans, that ignore that penalty. That way hit and run attacks or sweeping maneuvers are not that doable anymore, and movements points are more relevant if at the frontline. Then by all means, if someone's marching in the rearlines, they should be perfectly able to use Admin Movement all the way down from point A to point B.
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ORIGINAL: Beethoven1

Very good and well done AAR!

Despite how pessimistic you sound, from what I am reading it looks to me like you are doing better than historical. You have Leningrad cut off, and should be able to take it fairly easily as long as you run naval interdiction missions and move a sufficient number of planes to the Leningrad area (hint, move literally as many as necessary, without limit until Leningrad is yours).

You also have advanced WAY further than historical into the Volkhov area, and have cut off rail lines that were never historically cut.

Meanwhile in the center, you are only a few hexes away from Moscow, at a time when historically, the front line was back most of the way towards Vyazma/Rzhev, and even at Velikie Luki in the Toropets salient (no such salient exists in this game).

Meanwhile in the south, you seem to be at about historical schedule (might even be slightly ahead there too, hard to tell without knowing the exact date). You haven't taken Stalingrad, but given that 1942 is not over yet, you would not be expected to on a historical timescale yet either. But you are close to that also nonetheless.

The Red Army seems to also be fairly small, and will get smaller as soon as you wipe Leningrad.

So insofar as you are pessimistic, the only rational reason for pessimism would be that Germany will - eventually - lose the war. But that is how the game is designed. To judge how you are doing, you should compare to history, not to some hypothetical situation where you get all the way to the Urals. And judging based on those criteria, you seem to be winning - the game, not the war. So I think you can pat yourself on the back for doing well and having a pretty clear upper hand as compared to the historical situation.

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ORIGINAL: AlbertN

T58 - Leningrad Round 1, Soviets 1 Axis 0

MSAG came in prepared and my first go at naval interdiction went poorly. I'll simply need more planes, better supply routines there and larger airbases to support the expanded airforce.

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