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jlbhung -> Scenario: Road to Leningrad Playing as Axis (Completed) (4/22/2021 2:16:39 PM)
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Background
This is my first AAR.
I had experience with WitE1 but never played the smaller scenarios. With the new WitE2, I proceeded to the Road to Leningrad (RtL) Scenario after the two introductory scenarios.
My first attempt on RtL was unsuccessful. I made pockets when the opportunities were spotted, incurring delay in the process. I was also undecided on whether to focus on Leningrad or on the other VP locations, eventually achieved neither.
I decided to start again with the focus on capturing all VP locations apart from four -- Leningrad, NW Leningrad, Oranienbaum and Osinovets. My guess was that with the introduction of city forts in WitE2, it would be much more difficult to take Leningrad.
While proceeding with my second attempt at Turn 10, I was a bit uncertain on the way forward. I wanted to draw inspirations from fellow players AAR, but cannot find an RtL AAR that reached the later stage. Hence, I decided to write an AAR on my second attempt.
Since the decision to write an AAR was not made in the beginning, I did not kept end of turn saves before Turn 10. So before Turn 10, please excuse me for relying on autosave files (which are as at beginning of a turn) to make screenshots to illustrate actions carried out in the past turn. There are of course drawbacks including
(a) newly occupied area and Axis initiated battled in the past turn cannot be shown; and
(b) Soviet units in touch with Axis units in the past turn may move away. So in some cases readers may wonder why the Axis units did not advance further.
Lastly, English is not my mother-tongue. I use English only occasionally in my daily life. I often had difficulties in fully expressing myself in English. There will sometimes be awkward choice of words and grammatical errors. Please bear with me on these.
Let us proceed to the AAR. It was played with Fog of War and at Normal Difficulty. I did not use the Air and Depot AI Assist.
Turn 1 Air setting
On airbase bombing, I adopted a broad bush approach instead of creating many bombing directives, each targeting only a few airbases. The main change to the original Air Directive was to specify an escort requirement of min 10. The aim was to reduce the chance of unescorted bombers being slaughtered by Soviet fighters.
On the Recon for the first turn, I set to fly on Day 1 only to minimize operational loss. The priority was set to normal (compared to Very High for airbase bombing). In this way Recon will fly after the airbase bombing and hopefully will not encounter enemy fighters. After the first turn, Recon was generally flown two days a week.
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