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Jajusha -> RE: Turn 68 overview (5/8/2011 6:27:24 PM)
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As for the current campaign, my abysmal lack of trucks and slow rail repair have been the biggest enemy. Once i can engage i can do a big pile of bodies, a big part of them German, but as fiva is retreating to repaired rails, i face lack of supplies, fuel and ammo, slowing any advance considerably.
North: Most of the front was static most of summer, i have just 1 town over there where i can build new divisions, and the rail situation is really bad. Any new troops must spend 1 or 2 turns traveling by rail, then 2 or 3 more to get into position, just be fatigued and out of supplies for 2 or 3 more turns.
Center: We finished our version of Kursk, and after that German armor has been used in mostly defensive engagements. Even so, i was unable to encircle and destroy his inf divisions several times. The first artillery divisions and brigades where game-changers in the Moscow area, where i had very high defensive CV in front of my troops. After the "trials by fire" to relieve the Moscow area of any pressure, they were sent to the southern front where panzer divisions where being directly used to defend key areas. Smolensk was mostly abandoned by German troops, they are defending river lines and river crossings more fiercely then cities.
South: Where i made most progress, the bulk of my red guards and inf corps are here, and gained good ground only hindered by the poor logistics situation, and the sieges in the Stalino area.
Crimea: What a hard nut to crack. The assault over the strait of Kerch required the commitment of 1 soviet army. After the strait was secure, i quickly found one cannot build rail from that side of the Crimea, and any ofensive through the Crimea would have to be very limited in scale, as a new front couldn't be opened without rail. Alas, Fiva quickly exploited my rushed advance as i was running to Sevastopol while using fresh recruits to hold the flank and he was able to isolate the 51st army just when mud was arriving.
The air has been my territory since mid of summer. The bombing campaign was quite successful , even if i was losing 2-3:1 in casualties, i managed to take out a lot of his fighters, to the point where they mostly stoped showing up in ground support missions.
November is bringing me an extra 100 (from 90 to 190) t-34s per tank corps, so, i expect an increase in armor corps fighting capability. Used these last 2 turns before mud to make sure i'm not too far ahead from my rail and moved most of my army behind some weak divisions. All soviet troops have order to refit to 100%. We are expecting to cross major river lines when they freeze over this winter, to counter any previous attempt of fortification.
Overall, German fighting capability has been decreasing, but the rate of fivas retreat allows him to conserve his forces while keeping mine exausted. I'm hopping that with winter, and the moving penalties to both forces plus the frozen rivers, i'm able to engage his forces more often, for higher casualties.
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