cain012
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Joined: 12/27/2021 Status: offline
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Hey guys, first-time poster here. I've been playing this game pretty regularly (I'm finding it way easier to understand than Wite1), playing turns while reading tips on this forum and trying to get further in the game. I'm having my best German-side game yet, up to turn 13 consistently wiping out 200,000 Soviets per turn (As of September I've inflicted 2.7 million soviet casualties at the expense of 280,000 of my own, though I've lost LOTS of planes due to forgetting to turn ground support off on a few turns), very close to Moscow (not making a big try for Leningrad as I sent PzG 4 to help in the center, so the AI stripped that front and now 18th Army is finally facing some resistance up there, and the line elsewhere is fairly thin as a result with lots of low-TOE cavalry divisions in the south), but I'm having a major issue with Odessa and I think it's screwing up my whole supply situation in the south. I've attempted to "isolate" it using naval bombing, and reducing fort level by bombing the city. It seemed that zero freight was stored in the city just before I surrounded it, and no freight is being received, but right afterward stored freight was at 37 percent, the 58, then 83. It seems all due to air supply missions that aren't being intercepted, and then I'm faced with a 120,000 strong city fortress, fully supplied, at fort level 4. I attached all the siege artillery to 11th Army and used the whole formation exclusively to reduce Odessa (leaving my southern flank to both Romanian armies), but I can only maybe reduce it to fort level 1 after three turns of the whole army attacking, before pretty much every division needs to refit due to becoming depleted. City bombing is doing no damage. My sea interdiction mission might be too wide: three hexes. Soviet interdiction in the sea provinces is equal to that of mine, but I don't know what that means for the success of my missions to be honest. Does that mean my bombers are being interrupted from their mission? Is it better to use "naval ops" on the unit cards instead? I've never done that. I'm at the point of restarting yet another campaign to "do this right," but it seems like Odessa is just impossible to crack even with the strategies I've seen others post. Keep in mind, I'm a newer player so I'm not deep in the ways the various systems interlock for the air war. An elaborate response would be appreciated!
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