Raindem
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Joined: 7/15/2000 From: Arizona Status: offline
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Soviet Update, April 1943 - As Larry had mentioned the mud season is over and we are back on the move. The few remaining pockets of German troops are putting up a valiant but hopeless resistance. Meanwhile, the general mass of the soviet army marches westward. It's a slow process, I don't have near the rolling rail stock needed to accomplish this move in an efficient fashion. Larry's final defensive positions perplex me. I really expected him at the last minute to run his line straight down to the Black sea, so I kept the southern wing of my army moving west-southwest. Now half of my forces are poised to lunge into an empty Balkans. What I'll have to do now is leave a few scattered formations to cover the ground while the majority wheels northwest to get back to the front. I'm still deciding where to concentrate my final offensive. The southern front is enticingly close to Berlin but I'll waste the entire 1943 campaign season to just get into position. In the end, I'm going to have so many units tripping over each other I don't really have to decide where to attack. I can attack everywhere. Trying to move all these units, while staying in supply, while repairing railroads and bridges, while staying on guard for German counterattacks, is a test of one's organizational abilities in this game. I'm seeing all kinds of things I would do different if I had it over. You would think that moving hundreds of units over a long distance is a mindless activity but there are surprisingly many things to worry about. I've decided that instead of gradually building my rail lines westward, I will quickly establish 2 main east-west supply lines. I will then link them near the front and finally work around the southern edge. The result is that I'll quickly get full supply to the front while leaving a big mess in the rear which I'll take care of at a later time.
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