Arstavidios
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Humm :(
looks like something went wrong with my save.
Can't find the last turns I played.
Don't know how I did that.
so to sum up what happened in September and early October:
In the North AGN pushed toward leningrad in a methodical way. Front line hexes stacked with three divisions and two or three deliberarte attacks every turns. Deliberate attacks were all successul and at the end of the firs week of OCtober I had two stacks adjacent to the central hax of Leningrad ready for the final assault.
AGC and AGN panzer goups were were reorganised to two panzer corps each with two panzer and a motorised division per corp. Excess motorised units were sent south. that is two SS mot divisions GD and LehR motorised brigade and a Panzer corp HQ.
In the centre. Infantry armies were deployed in the front on division per hex. Stedy advance was made at the joint with AGN making deliberate attacks the front line was graduallt pushed. Howeve If combats were usually won and many soviet units were routed very were encircled. Infantry brigades started to appear massively in the front line. A few guard units also started to pop up.
Early septamber I tried some encirclement in the centre but results were dissapointind. A lot a movement points xere spent trying to catch soviet unnits but only a few were actually caught, while my armies ended up completely
intermingled and messed up.
so I Took a tur to dress the lines and reorganise things properly. with the Panzer corps stacked in one hew making a powerful striking force.
Meanwhile railheads were reaching the front meaning the armoured units were regaining much mobility. So I unleashed a powerful frontal assault toward moscow.First of all the frontline infantry launched deliberate attacks clearing the soviet frontline.
The the panzer corps adavanced and started a series of hasty attacks cleraing the line. The the infantry then used its remaining movement point to ocuppt the terrain cleared by the tanks.
The next turn, early october this methodical push of panzrs drove forward an other two hexes with the infantry watching, the coming forward to occupy the hexes cheared. By that time rail head was at Viazma and movement point were up again to between 20 and 36 allowing again a powerful addvance. From mid August to mid septempber movement points had been down to between 10 and 20.
In the south the advance continued mainly at an infantry speed. 1st panser group wasted a lot o effort to encircle some soviet units but again this was largely unsuccessgul. a few stacks were trpped but nothing significant. Still the advance continued. Kharkow end Zaparozye(something like it anyway ) fell early october.
and 6th army was reachincg Kursk.
The rumanians were slowly crossing the Lower Dnepr.
Motorisez reinforcements were arriving in the area. with a reinforcement panzer corp directed there plus some units from AGN and AGC on their way. However the front is very extended there and unit density is low.
Soviet losses were still heavy but their numbers kept slowly growing, reacching about 4 150 000 men at the end of september. Yet tank numbers remained very low, some tak brigades apeeared here and there but they were all brushed aside. tank losses would certainly hurt for a winter counter offensive. Soviet losses had just reached the 3 000 000 mark with a huge number of prisoners, more than 2 000 000. My own losses being a little over 300 000, with a good bunch of rumanians. So that's not bad. However with less pocket and a frontal advance, and soviet units recovering from the initial surprise turns are getting bloodier. Last turn not finished was 30 000 Axis losses to about 100 000 soviet, including some prisonners. Assaults against heavy fortifications in the Lenigrad area and µRumanian assaults across the Dnepr explain a good part of these losses. aloso Infantry is now at work.
so German advance had stalled from a wild rush to a steady push. railheads were catching up everywhere. and troops were now organised more to my liking. However with the season getting late It was time to start thinking about reaching a coherent winter line;
Leningrad should probably fall in 1941. In the centre I can bring my lines nearer to mosconw so as to have a good jumping line.
In the south a line
The AI has proved to be a worthy opponent. Nothing brilliant, but nothing disastrous. In the first few turns it was a bit trampled but the settings were set on easy, so that did not help.
Tank losses will hurt. I think it should be tweaked to be more conservative with tanks in the first few turns.
So Now I'm going to see if I can find that save or if I have to replay the whole of september :(
But it looks like Oberst von Fubar was in charge of the save, unless there's been an attack by red gremlins.
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