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larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/11/2020 8:17:15 PM)
T14, D-town I've captured a couple of river crossings just south of Kiev and I'm expanding the bridgehead and expanding the footprint on the east side of the river. These intrusions may attract some more Soviet defenders and that's a good thing in that it may mean that more Soviet units can be trapped against the riverbank and destroyed. I've arrived at D-town and vigorous negotiations are underway to determine who owns it. Also, there's been some fierce fighting over the crossings leading into the Crimea. Elmer has been railing a lot of units this way so I expect a lot more resistance in the near future. It's now August 6, 1941 and we're into the fall season of the year. That means that some cold fronts are probably on their way moving from north to south from the Arctic circle. Some of the rivers I'm defending behind may freeze over during the coldest part of winter and become traversable so I'll have to adjust for that. [image]local://upfiles/16287/EEE384A5A27943B984B259B8BCE943E5.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/11/2020 9:16:27 PM)
T14, Kherson This is what the Crimea looks like right now. I'm fighting over the bottlenecks to get into the Sevastopol area. I'm considering a naval invasion to go around the blockages. I'm hesitating because the Soviets still have two naval units remaining in the Black Sea Fleet, one of them a BB. I need to get my Stukas down here to get rid of them. So far so good. [image]local://upfiles/16287/8CE4A5D5C0264354BE755EE3A0C706FB.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/12/2020 2:34:57 AM)
T14, Kiev I finally managed to get some troops on the east side of Kiev, sortof. The idea is to trap all those Soviet units against the riverbank and kill them. Axis units further to the east are sweeping south to clear the terrain of enemy units, convert the roads and rails to the German side, and as a side effect, convert the hexes to friendly. There's a lot going on in this AO with a lot of moving units, lots of small skirmishing battles and the Soviet units are sufficiently sparse that lots of progress is being made. The supply level is in the high teens at the tip of the spear so that's high enough to keep going. I need to monitor the supply level because in previous games the supply level was a major problem. I'm moving my aircraft to the east as far as possible as the airfields are uncovered. [image]local://upfiles/16287/1A1DE70FF0AB43E4AD6FFE1F583F2B5F.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/12/2020 10:51:52 PM)
T15, Smolensk The front lines have moved east from Smolensk and soon the fighting will be over the city of Vyazma. The Soviets have constructed a fairly good front line in some places, in some other places there's only a light screen and even some small gaps exist. In the south of the image, south of Bryansk, German forces are finding Soviet units sparse enough to make some rapid progress. The supply lines are repaired to just behind the front. All the aircraft are green except two German bombers and one Finnish fighter. You can see from the air losses meter that the fighting is still one-sided for the most part. But the Soviet AS level is climbing slowly. I've got 31.8K German Heavy Rifle Squads assigned and 861 on hand. I feel like I need to slow down the operational tempo to allow the number of HRS's to fill in a bit. I still haven't decided what a good moritorium level would be. About 30K I suppose. I figure I will need that many to survive the Soviet Winter Offensive come T49. [image]local://upfiles/16287/B57B5DEAB2414FB781DC37829DFEF54D.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/14/2020 3:49:26 PM)
T16, Leningrad Here's what the Leningrad area looks like right now. The Finns have been at the stop line about a month ( game time ) now and they have been trading arty shots back and forth in all that time. I'm on the brink of a breakthrough and will soon be adjacent to the city. The left hook isn't working out all that well. I'm trying to surround the Soviets with too few units. I need to shift some of those guys on the northwest side to the southeast side and maybe rail some more troops in from somewhere else although I have no idea where those troops will come from. I'm still trying to strip off the Panzer divisions to use them as a reserve. It seems that most of them are fully employed on the front lines. So I effectively have no reserve to speak of. [image]local://upfiles/16287/E888E2EA5F67408C81C307766E3239E1.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/14/2020 5:05:26 PM)
T16, Stalino I have pushed through D-town and Z-town and I'm heading east and southeast from there. The supply levels are adequate for operations so the advance continues. Rapid progress is being made because the Soviets are so sparse. I expect resistance to increase as I move east. The Romanians are still setting siege of Odessa and gauging from the progress being made there, they will be at it for at least another month. I think maybe more RR arty is needed to expedite the process. It's for sure going to be needed when I try to take down Sevastopol. Right now all the RR arty is spread out between Leningrad and Kiev and Odessa so maybe I need to decide on who gets priority and use them all there instead. All the aircraft are green except for one bomber and three fighter units. The AS levels are 45 Axis and 25 Soviet so the air war is slowly heating up. There's been no adverse weather so far so that's a plus. I'm optimistic. [image]local://upfiles/16287/97A0CDA1201B46A898B3FD938B078EF4.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/17/2020 2:58:49 PM)
T17, Kiev I've pushed through Kiev and I'm taking down all the Soviet units close to the riverbank before they can get away to the east. The supply levels are in the low 20's and the weather is still good to go. Rapid progress is being made in moving east and south. The Soviets are too sparse to hold me up for long. I've captured several river crossings and that's helping out quite a bit. The railhead is just east of Kiev at the bridge across the river. [image]local://upfiles/16287/D5D8069585BC449E9F497A5C2758A729.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/17/2020 4:31:45 PM)
T17, Crimea I've pushed through the bottlenecks by using three-dot attacks and aircraft support and lots of arty. I don't have any water-borne movement cap. so invasions are off the table. The rails are repaired all the way to the tip of the spear so supply is excellent for a change. I moved all the Stukas down here and used them to sink the two Soviet naval units that were lurking here. I'm going to use the 11th Army units to take down Sevastopol and I'll send some Romanians to the Kertch Straits to just hold the Soviets in place until I can get some serious RR arty down here. I have no idea how long it will take to capture Sevastopol but I'm guessing about a month game time. [image]local://upfiles/16287/6ACA9E4650D748E28DBCB814A70606D2.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/17/2020 5:28:05 PM)
T17, Belgorod Here's what it looks like down south right now. Lots of good progress has been made and the forecast looks like more of the same. Supply levels are in the low 20's which is just fine for operations and you can see from the air losses meter how hot the air war has been so far this turn. There's a river that curves SE from Kharkov and turns into a major river that I need to get across somewhere close to here. I'll bring up some engineers to help me leap the river. I've got 29.9K German Heavy Rifle Squads assigned and 813 on hand. I'm becoming uncomfortable with how few HRS's there are assigned and I think it may be time to concentrate on those spots where the best progress is being made and just hold what I have on the rest of the line. Fewer attacks is what I'm aiming for. I'd like to see at least 30K assigned HRS's because of the Soviet Winter Offensive in T49 or so. My shock goes down, the Soviet shock goes up and for about 10 turns I have to try to hold the line where it is with what I have left in the way of forces. The weather then will be terrible and I can't count on much in the way of CS then either. So I need a lot of stout LCU's. ( Land Combat Units ). [image]local://upfiles/16287/76C45935801B4F30BA52103B87B75CAD.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/17/2020 5:51:15 PM)
T17, Bologoye Here's what it looks like out in the middle of nowhere in particular. I'm still pushing east as hard as I can but progress is slow and painful. I'm thinking of gaining some good terrain and just holding here for a bit to let the troops rest, to let the number of HRS's assigned to grow a bit, and maybe shift some of the troops to better strategic spots. I'm still trying to do the left hook to isolate Leningrad from the rest of Russia and so far it's been no joy. [image]local://upfiles/16287/4F0EC86571F3405E994BB7F14FA793F2.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/19/2020 6:32:23 AM)
T18, Sevastopol I'm starting to surround the city before I start to assault it seriously. I've been striking the Soviet naval unit seen in the image and I've sunk the BB, CA, and 2 DD's so far with 2 more DD's to go yet. I've got 28.8K HRS's assigned and 890 on hand which means I'm losing them faster than I'm building them. Still. I'm going to have to slow down the operational tempo to try to get back up to 30K assigned HRS's. Which is where I'd like to be when the Soviet Winter Offensive occurs in T49 or so. I wish I had some capital ships to bombard that group of Soviet aircraft on the south coast. I think it might be profitable to run some RR arty over here to see if I can reach those aircraft with at least one of them. I believe one of them has a range of 7 hexes and if I'm not that close yet I may soon be. [image]local://upfiles/16287/1D9068E36CBE4469BCBF2812F9A816E2.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/19/2020 9:20:44 AM)
T18, Kiev I succeeded in catching a lot of Soviet units up against the riverbank near Kiev and I'm slowly making them go away. The supply levels are great and a lot of progress is being made pushing to the west and southeast. [image]local://upfiles/16287/52DAC22DB8E44F45B82505FBFF87C5A1.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/21/2020 11:12:24 PM)
T19, Moscow This is what the Moscow area looks like now. It's August 24, 1941 so there's plenty of time left to try to surround Moscow. I'm trying to surround a large group of Soviet units so I can destroy them before I approach Moscow seriously. Bryansk fell recently so those units can now move toward Tula. All the aircraft are green but I have 4 bombers resting because they are less than 50% in supply. There are 27.9K HRS's assigned and 390 on hand. So I still need to slow down the operational tempo a little. I've lost 1772 trucks but there's still 8338 trucks assigned and 5508 on hand. I'm monitoring my trucks because when I run out of trucks a lot of units are going to have to start walking instead of riding, with the reduction of MP's implied. I've lost 161 Me-109's so far and there's still 964 assigned and 195 on hand so I'm good for the time being for fighters. [image]local://upfiles/16287/B81600D2B5794C87ABF985AA88B3DD27.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/23/2020 2:13:15 AM)
T20, Leningrad This is what the Leningrad area looks like right now. I've fought my up adjacent to the city but Elmer has turned it into a fortress. I'm wondering how hard it would be to use some Engineers to leap the Neva River and attack the city from the east and south simultaneously. That's my game plan for now. Meanwhile a rather large gap has developed in my front lines. Elmer is going to exploit that any turn now. I've got to get some troops into that area ASAP, at least a light screen. I haven't moved anybody yet so there's still a chance I can get some people moving that way. I've been using a lot of my Corps HQ units to repair the rails and it's up to the front lines so the supply level is great. All the aircraft are green except for one Romanian bomber. I've got a lot of airfield strikes scheduled on a Soviet airfield that has two light bomber units and one heavy bomber unit and there's not a lot of fighters stationed nearby so I'm hoping I can rid the world of more Soviet bombers. There's 26.7K HRS's assigned and 432 on hand. I'm still losing them faster than I'm building them. I've lost 21.9K HRS's so far and that averages out to about 700+ HRS's per turn are being lost. I'm wondering how I can slow down the operational tempo without stalling the advance. I'm not at all sure there's a way to do that. [image]local://upfiles/16287/8E4C8BBD6C8C4A8A9016C1058B5FB983.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/23/2020 12:19:57 PM)
T20, Sevastopol This is what the Sevastopol area looks like right now. I have cordoned off the bottom half of the peninsula but there's still several ports that Elmer could use to introduce some reinforcements to the area. I need to turn on some Sea Int to prevent floaters from approaching this AO. The terrain on the SE coast is terrible and it's difficult to get into the better attacking positions. I've gained one hex on the west coast and now I'm adjacent to one of the CD gun positions. I need some armour down here to tackle the CD guns I'm thinking. I see a recon unit from the 60th Motorized Div so I'm thinking of moving the entire division down here and whatever Panzer Tank Division is available and nearby. I may need to rail those units down here from wherever they are right now. Speaking of rails, I've repaired the rails leading south to Sevastopol and the one leading SE toward the Kerch Straits so the supply levels are great. I need to replace that Romanian unit taking place in the attack on a stack of Soviet units with a German one and let the Romanians concentrate on Odessa for now. I've decided to use the Italians, Hungarians, and Slavs to move into the far south region once I figure out how to get across the main river with all these troops. [image]local://upfiles/16287/F9E7DC9B609249758D31BAE39E656A04.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/23/2020 11:33:30 PM)
T20, Moscow I'm sneaking up on Moscow slowly. I have a rather large group of Soviet units to destroy before I can consider assaulting Moscow however. This is an image from combat round 3 and I have some aircraft units that I need to move to the rear next to an HQ unit to rest. As you see from the air losses meter the air war is still hot. I usually set all the bombers to CS when the turn starts and then during round 4 or 5 I assign some INT missions prior to the end of the turn. [image]local://upfiles/16287/7F9C5AFB55A147DEBA850B60CC66CB5E.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/24/2020 4:51:18 PM)
T21, Front Lines This is the extent of the advance so far. I'm adjacent to Leningrad and I'm sneaking up on Kalinin and I've blown through Bryansk and there's a fierce fight going on for Kharkov. The Soviet remnants that were grouped along the east side of the river just south of Kiev are almost gone now and there's a fight going on for Stalino and the reduction of Odessa continues with very little progress being made there. No progress is being made at Sevastopol either. The Soviets have turned both places into a fortress and losses are high for my every attack. [image]local://upfiles/16287/CE45344D033D48398621753A89EB6A56.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/24/2020 5:53:42 PM)
T21, Kalinin This is what it looks like around Kalinin right now. There are more gaps in my front lines than I'm comfortable with but these are the troops I have to work with. I may have to start breaking down the regiments into three separate pieces to have enough units to form an unbroken front line. I'm still having problems replacing the Panzer Divisions on the front line with a leg unit and using the Panzers as a reserve. I don't have enough units to cover everything so gaps develop in the front lines. I'm still working on the problem. I still have 25.4K HRS's assigned and 652 on hand. I'm still below the number of assigned HRS's that I think I need to survive the Soviet Winter Offensive: 30K. But things are going so well with the advance that I hesitate to stop it now. I've got 7.9K trucks assigned and 5.8K on hand. So far so good. [image]local://upfiles/16287/90E10A4C8E8542BFAB8E198194A1FC99.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/26/2020 4:43:52 AM)
T22, Leningrad Leningrad finally fell so the Finns are released from the stop lines and their contribution is helping a lot. Before I do anything else I need to clean out the Leningrad area of enemy soldiers. There's a lot of them so it may take a turn or two or several but then I'm planning on pressing to the southeast to threaten Moscow on another axis. Plus there's a large gap that I need to fill with some good troops. I'm surprised that Elmer hasn't exploited it yet. [image]local://upfiles/16287/5F54556182464BFE919B749327809AAA.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/27/2020 12:02:10 AM)
T22, Sevastopol I've made some progress in the last couple of turns but there's a lot more to do yet. All the Soviet ships have been sunk so that's one thing I don't have to worry about. Odessa isn't going down as fast as I'd like. I may have to replace those Romanians with some German troops to get the job done. [image]local://upfiles/16287/836DA27FD87C47799CBA6785091A4FE8.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/27/2020 12:36:29 AM)
T22, Kalinin Progress in this area has been spotty. But the terrain is cooperating with me so far and I'm optimistic about the next several turns. I now have 22.7K HRS's assigned and 1601 on hand, which is considerably less than the 30K I think I need. I may have to review my HRS's-on-hand policy with a view to making it reflect conditions on the ground. Either that or put a moritorium on attacking. I'd really hate to stop the advance where it is. There's so much more that can be done with the time left until the mud season starts. [image]local://upfiles/16287/495FB3B791124C6AA3CC574A5278C269.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/27/2020 5:23:05 PM)
T23, Moscow Here's what it looks like around Moscow right now. I had intended to surround that group of Soviet units directly west of Moscow but they keep backing up to the east and slipping out of my net. I'll have to try something else to get in back of them. I'm also sneaking up on Tula toward the bottom of this image. The rails are repaired almost all the way to the front so supply is more than adequate. [image]local://upfiles/16287/C531F77B36534B729978F69E54796D7C.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/28/2020 5:54:50 PM)
T23, Kalinin This is the face of war between Kalinin and Moscow. This is combat round 4 and the fighting has been sharp and brutal. I've got 22.7 HRS's assigned and 887 on hand. And I've lost 26786 HRS's so far. I'm building 428 of them each turn and I'm STILL losing them faster than I can build them. This can't go on for long before I'm going to be below the threshold I think I need to survive the Soviet Winter Offensive. But so much progress is being made I hate to shut off the attacking right now. [image]local://upfiles/16287/3E68AA2A30C14AECB1E4D6DB4086036E.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/30/2020 5:58:11 PM)
T24, Stalino Here's what seems to be happening NE of Kharkov and just north of Stalino. I've still got my fighters on a three-dot stance and Soviet planes are still falling out of the sky. I now have 22.4K HRS's assigned and 795 on hand. I'm planning on letting the force rest to rebuild their strength and supply levels. 22.4K HRS's isn't going to be enough to hold the Soviet units back during the Soviet Winter Offensive IMHO and I need to let the force gather it's strength again. The supply levels are in the low 20's and that's enough to keep going. It was tough getting across the river but now most of my units are across and we're pushing hard to the east. Down south I'm sneaking up on Rostov and the entrance to the far south. I'm thinking of sending the Axis Minor Nations to the south. [image]local://upfiles/16287/DC56DDE7DAA64C9DAFE20D84C31A5CB6.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/31/2020 6:02:01 PM)
T25, Leningrad There's been a lot of progress in the last few turns. I'm going to destroy all the Soviet equipment trapped in the Leningrad area meanwhile pushing to the NE and SE simultaneously. I'd like to form another avenue of approach to Moscow from this spot so that the Soviets will have to defend a longer front line and there will be more chances of isolating individual Soviet units and defeating them. [image]local://upfiles/16287/C8C87A864B174A1C800D4D5A7EFCE96F.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/31/2020 6:32:40 PM)
T25, Orel Here's what's been going on more toward the middle. East of Orel I'm surrounding a couple of small groups of Soviet units just before I destroy them. The supply levels are in the low 20's which is enough to keep advancing east. The Soviet units seem to be situated in small groups with gaps between the groups so it's a lot easier to surround them. I'm optimistic about the progress to be made in this AO. [image]local://upfiles/16287/C70AD16E23BE468488CE73E7A37A3204.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (8/31/2020 6:48:40 PM)
T25, Moscow Here's what's been going on around the Moscow area right now. The fighting has been prolonged and severe. Losses are mounting on both sides. Soviet units are attacking so hard that some of their smaller units are evaporating when they attack. It's harder in this AO to try to surround the Soviet units before I destroy them. I'm just very slowly pushing the Soviets toward Moscow a hex at a time. [image]local://upfiles/16287/FB6D6EA241E04637A6B93444A7E6851D.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (9/3/2020 1:06:10 AM)
T26, Moscow Here's what it looks like at Moscow looking south. The supply levels are between 40 and 50 right now. I have 21.9K HRS's assigned and 536 on hand and I've lost 29.7K of them so far. That's far lower than the 30K HRS's that I think I'm going to need to survive the Soviet Winter Offensive so I'm going to have to put a moritorium on attacks for several turns to let the HRS level to grow higher. Soon. All my aircraft are green except for two bombers. [image]local://upfiles/16287/2B10C4C858114A78810663CAD58DA0AB.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (9/3/2020 1:14:55 AM)
T26, Voroshovograd Here's what's going on down south. I'm pushing for Stalingrad and I hope to get there before winter sets in. I'm planning on using Rostov as my gate to head south from here. The supply levels are in the high 20's which is enough to keep going. [image]local://upfiles/16287/F91991C5527B45A28669A02CE30DC83A.jpg[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: D21 using the Red Green Yellow rule (9/3/2020 9:03:49 PM)
T26, Leningrad Here's what's going on in the Leningrad area. I've shipped out most of the Finn troops to other needy places. There's four more Finn divisions in or near Leningrad that will be railed out next turn and I'd like to see if I can capture Archangel with them. I'm still in the movement phase just before the first combat round but you can see from the air losses meter that the air war is still pretty warm. And the Soviets are sneaking their AS level higher slowly. I now have 21.5K HRS's assigned and 947 on hand. And the story is that I'm still losing them faster than I'm building them. But I'm making such good progress that I'd hate to have to put a stop to it right now. I'm planning on letting the troops rest during the mud season turns. From T32 until T42 is the first fall mud season and that will be 10 turns that will give my units some much needed rest. [image]local://upfiles/16287/D288387DBA0945B5B2DBCE8F10A7AA5D.jpg[/image]

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