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redrum68 -> RE: END OF REVIEW (1/27/2021 3:14:29 PM)

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ORIGINAL: JoeLewis
@Seminole, don't you want your Corps HQ close to your units to ensure supplies and maximum leadership benefits? Every bit of generalship you can squeeze out could be decisive at some point in the early turns, no?


Having the Corps HQ close to its units only matters for supply purposes (leader check take no penalties for corp HQ). So only if units will not be pocketed and the corps HQ ends up within 5 hexes of the unit at the start of your next turn will it be within supply range to receive no supply penalties.

Displacing them doesn't matter that much IMO as they don't lose that many men/equipment but you do want to avoid having them pocketed as then you lose all the men/equipment.



BrianG -> RE: END OF REVIEW (1/27/2021 8:41:27 PM)

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@Seminole, don't you want your Corps HQ close to your units to ensure supplies and maximum leadership benefits? Every bit of generalship you can squeeze out could be decisive at some point in the early turns, no?



many of the early hq corp have very bad leaders and wont help in any situation, plus you want to save the SU attached to them, so you do not want them surrounded on turns 2 and 3.




JoeLewis -> Turn 3 Casualties (1/31/2021 1:18:29 AM)

The large pockets meant another heavy round of casualties. The drain on our manpower in the first ten turns of this game has been brutal due to the loss of so many units in encirclements as well as the German drive on Leningrad.

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JoeLewis -> Soviets Turn 3 North Start (1/31/2021 1:20:25 AM)

Northern Front looks manageable. The Pskov pocket can be opened and its units need to attack as much of the rail lines as possible. Defenses need to be established along the Luga River and around Lake Ilmen. Some AP has to go here for fort building.

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JoeLewis -> Soviets Turn 3 North End (1/31/2021 1:24:26 AM)

We choked the TOE to a lot of the units in the Pskov Pocket. This can be useful for units that you know will be sacrificed soon or might get caught in pockets to delay a German advance. Note that while we can hold up the Germans for awhile here, we are unable to build strong rear defenses.

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JoeLewis -> Soviets Turn 3 Center (2/5/2021 2:58:43 AM)

We have a very aggressive Center Front commander who managed to cut off one German panzer division during this turn. I disagreed with the move, because without a +1 attack bonus and this early in the game you will have a hard time keeping a German division pocketed for a full turn AND you risk more of your units to encirclement. Still, I appreciated the aggressiveness of the commander. However, the defense of the Dnepr looked a lot more promising, but with a vulnerability north of the land bridge.

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JoeLewis -> Vulnerability of the Land Bridge (2/5/2021 3:00:42 AM)

Our Northwest Front commander spotted and filled this vulnerability to protect the center. You have to keep your eye out for the seams between your commanders!

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JoeLewis -> Soviets Turn 3 South (2/5/2021 3:04:28 AM)

The Southern Fronts withdrew very nicely, but keep an eye on the Kiev defenses because they will be enveloped in a few turns and this northern approach did not look very vulnerable. Soviet Lesson Learned: Always look for the German railheads by hovering over likely rail routes and sseeing if they say "Axis Rail" instead of Damaged Rail 100. You want to get a feel for how much fuel those panzer divisions have.

I did not think we were very vulnerable at Kiev.

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