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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 7:35:13 AM)

Here's the T8 front lines before I have moved anybody.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 7:48:16 AM)

Here's the northern front lines right now. I'm working my way up to the bottleneck
slowly. Resistance is about what I expected. I'm going to need some more people
before I can go much further.

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700851McCall -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 8:22:02 AM)

I'm on turn 6 of this scenario and am also having trouble with the RR engineers making no progress.



larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 10:11:17 AM)

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ORIGINAL: 700851McCall
I'm on turn 6 of this scenario and am also having trouble with the RR engineers making
no progress.

Ah HA....Soooooo, it's not just me. T8 sees the fourth turn in a row where the RR engrs
have made no progress. And there's nothing to change to make it happen. I'm not getting
any supply to the spear tip and the advance will have to halt soon. There's no way around
it either. This is a major problem. I wish there was a unit that had RR engrs that you
have to use the old fashioned way, repairing the rail a hex at a time by repairing it
manually.



larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 10:17:31 AM)

Here's a section of the front lines that's typical and as you can see the supply is single digits at the tip of the
spear. There's just no way to continue to the east.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 10:22:51 AM)

Here's the northern front lines right now. I've found a few more divisions and I
drove them up to the front and we're making progress but the lack of people makes
it go slowly and carefully. I've got people headed or Talinin and once tht city is
captured the exclusion zone will be lifted and the ships will be able to support.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 10:31:45 AM)

Here's the supply situation at Pskov and as you can see it's declining the further east you go and it barely adequate
at the front.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 10:48:59 AM)

I've successfully crossed the Dneper river at two places and units will advance to
the east side of the river and halt. No sense moving into the low supply areas.
Maybe the supply situation will improve and the advance can continue.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 11:19:32 AM)

The Axis units started flowing into the Gomel area last turn and this turn enlarged the
footprint and spread out and looking for and finding Soviet units. I've got the MP's
combing through the underbrush in the outback converting hexes like crazy. This is an
important area in that there's a lot of roads and rails passing though here so a lot
of traffic can be stopped with it's capture.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 11:36:31 AM)

Here's the Kiev area right now. I'm backing up the Soviet forces toward Kiev and
condensing the footprint of the defenders. I'm guessing they are going to try to
escape the dragnet by slipping through the river crossing at Kiev so I'm going to
try to get there first and close that door.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 12:37:58 PM)

I was finally able to force a river crossing down south and get across the Dniester
river and onto the Odessa plain. I just made that up. At any rate, I'm going to
envelope Odessa and start the bombarding with arty to soften up the Odessa defenses.
I'm thinking I can take down Odessa in about 10 turns from when the seige starts.
Which will start as soon as I can get all my Rumanians in position down there.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 12:53:03 PM)

My Stuka's aren't quite within range of the Soviet BB's near Leningrad. But I'm
thinking that I soon will be within range and then the naval air strikes can begin.
It usually takes two strikes to sink the BB of the group.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/27/2018 1:09:23 PM)

I don't feel all that comfortable parking my aircraft next to an enemy unit, especially
if the unit is arty. If it's arty I don't park there. If it's an LCU there's got to
be no danger of an overrun. The idea is not to get the aircraft unit hurt by anything
on the land. I like to park the AA units on the airfields closest to the front because
Elmer likes to do airfield strikes.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/28/2018 2:44:17 PM)

Here's the T9 front lines before I have moved anybody.

[image]local://upfiles/16287/81D6F8937A884A8F92A5744E24CB21B8.jpg[/image]



larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/28/2018 3:01:31 PM)

Here's the front lines in the NW corner. I'm slowly taking over all the territories
in the peninsula and despite the low number of people progress is being made. The
supply level is in the teens and I'm optimistic about the future up here.

This is the first turn that the RR engrs made some progress, finally, in about 5 turns.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/28/2018 3:25:59 PM)

This is a view of Pskov looking south and illustrates how there's a lot of meeting
engagements going on as the front lines start to take on a defination between the
two forces. I may have to rail in some more troops from the south to keep the
advance proceeding.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/28/2018 3:41:53 PM)

Here's Orsha looking south and the supply level is in single digits and can't proceed
until supply improves. I may have to review my RR engr usage policy to keep the
advance going in this area. One of my units got too far out in front and got surrounded
and ambushed. I'll send him some help.



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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 1:05:26 AM)

Here's the supply sitution at Polotsk right now. There's only one avenue left that
has enough supply to continue and that's the top route depicted with a yellow arrow.
I'm going to keep going as far as I can along that route but the bottom two routes
have already ventured into the single digits and therefore need an infusion of better
supply before any more progress can be made there. That's a problem I'm having all
up and down the front lines. Low supply is a major problem. I understand that it's
supposed to be limiting in a historical way, but it's still frustrating.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 1:16:25 AM)

Here's what the supply level looks like near Gomel right now. It's too low to go on
to the east any further. I'll form a front line and just sit down for a while here.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 1:37:18 AM)

Supply is still okay in the Kiev area right now. I'm going to keep going in this
area because I have the supply to support continued operations so I may as well make
hay while the sun shines.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 1:56:47 AM)

I've gotten across the river down south near Odessa and I'm beginning to fight for a
bigger footprint for the breakthrough I've made. The Odessa defenders have build a
fortress of themselves and it's going to take a while to breakthrough all that stuff
and capture the city. That's their supply point so if I can get that the rest of
them will be easier. Eventually. I've got to make a note to myself to rail some
extra arty down here to get the bombardment going when the siege starts.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 2:14:12 AM)

The Hungarians are through with their adventures in the mountains so now I need to
decide where to employ them next. I'm thinking I'll try to see if I can't force a
river crossing with them and then drive them further south and play it by ear. I
like the idea of flowing into a power vacuum, the voids that appear from time to
time, not that I can actually see them standing in the front lines for any lenthy
period of time. Their proficiency is so low that they can't really protect
themselves adequately and I need to keep them together for mutual support.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 2:44:31 AM)

And now here's another thing I'm having to deal with. Hexes that don't have ANY
supply in them. I'll have to monitor thsse units in this area and rotate them in
and out of a supply source just to keep them running. Either that or back the
units into a hex that does have some supply.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 5:07:04 AM)

I dropped a paratrooper unit near a bridge in the bottleneck to cut the supply ot all
the Soviet units west of there. I'm hoping that will accellerate the take down of all
the Soviet units that are still defending. Progress is being made and I hope to get
things moving faster here.



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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 5:08:30 AM)

I dropped a paratrooper unit near a bridge in the bottleneck to cut the supply ot all
the Soviet units west of there. I'm hoping that will accellerate the take down of all
the Soviet units that are still defending. Progress is being made and I hope to get
things moving faster here.
[image]local://upfiles/16287/ED302781F94B4F1FAA3D6AD837A92D9C.jpg[/image]



larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 6:04:14 AM)

Here's what Pskov looks like now. I've finally captured the city and with it the
rails and roads that pass through there. I'm planning on running a rail through
there so I needed the city. The rail will probably split at Pskov with one going
north and one going east. I need to look up where the RR engrs are right now.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 6:13:45 AM)

I found the northern rail repair group out in the middle of nowhere too far from the
front lines to be useful. They aren't repairing the rail fast enough to keep up
with the front lines.

Also, I've got two possible routes to repair the 'A' route or the 'B' route and I'm
leaning on the A route because I'd like to get some supply to the people that are
going to be near Leningrad so that means a rail line going north from Pskov and I'd
like to keep the advance going to that's a line going east from Pskov and I feel
like I need both of them equally so I'm going to split up the group when they get to
Pskov and keep going.

This scenario is really frustrating in the lack of supply department.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 6:24:28 AM)

I found the southern RR repair group also out in the middle of nowhere headed for
Kiev. They aren't very close but I'm optimistic that they can do it. It's just
happening too slowly.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 6:28:52 AM)

Here's the middle group. It's even further away from the front lines than the other
two groups. I would hate to have to gather all the RR engrs in one spot but this looks
like it might need the 'muclear option' to get it moving. There's been no protress
from the group in a couple of turns now.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: The Sun Also Rises ( D21 ) (1/29/2018 7:13:09 AM)

Here's the T10 front lines before I have moved anybody.

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