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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/25/2011 3:04:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		An example on how I will be using the Front Reserves. The Southern Front 9th Army is basically useless. Its divisions are all unready, very weak. SO, I happened to have 3 ready divisions in this area, attached to Stavka. I assigned them to this 9th Army and on the next turns they'll be moving to the front. Therefore 3 frontline divisions of this Army (the most depleted) will be sent to the rear to refit and attached to the Southern Front HQ. They will be the reserves of this whole front. Two or three turns later they might be ready again to replace other depleted, unready divisions of the 3 armies of this front




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/25/2011 3:55:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		What a huge waste of AP: swapping 3 units per front will cost 6 AP (three for transfer to front, three for transferring old reserve back to army) times 9 (?) fronts equals 54 AP to be spent every two or three turns? Why not simply rotate them off the line within the same army?

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/25/2011 4:05:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		A Front HQ will look like this (its reserves). I have decided to give 1 Cavalry Division to each front.

76mm, yes, you need APs to do so. But if I want to have strong armies (CP almost 24:24) I have no other option. I won't renounce the Front Reserves. The Soviets had them. So these APs will be well spent in my opinion




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/25/2011 5:41:45 PM   
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What a huge waste of AP: swapping 3 units per front will cost 6 AP (three for transfer to front, three for transferring old reserve back to army) times 9 (?) fronts equals 54 AP to be spent every two or three turns? Why not simply rotate them off the line within the same army?


76mm, I would not be rotating ALL the units on one turn Another option would be assigning the depleted frontline divisions to STAVKA itself. Then when they're back they are free (no need to pay APs)...

But I see a problem. I want the Front Reserves. This is a Big Yes. They can be useful to reinforce critical areas. But these Front reserves + the Stavka divisions ready to replace depleted frontline divisions would mean = NO divisions left to form Reserve Armies. And of course I want them... because the Soviets had them. I'm like a kid eh?

As I see it, IF I want reserves I must pay for them, so I see no problem here. It's VERY important to me (after all, if the Soviets and ANY army in the world have such reserves this should tell you something). Just like the Fortified Regions which should prepare defensive lines to stop or slow down any enemy offensive on 1942. Expensive? Certainly. Prioritary? INDEED: if you want defensive lines that is. Me and the real war Soviets want them, it's all I can say

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 9:50:31 PM   
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11 december 1941


2ndACR is apparently happy. This is what he says on his email: "Well, at least I got some holds. So far, it is looking some what better than all the other blizzards i have been thru"

There is a paradox though During the Blitzkrieg I contained him in both the North (Leningrad) and Center (Moscow). That was of course my Big Vital Objective. He advanced almost unopposed in the South and grabbed many hexes. And now it looks like he wants to give me those many hexes in the south... In the Center and North he is entrenched though. Now I can see the big picture. He's got few forces in most part of the south, grosso modo in the part where I annihilated his two divisions during the mud offensive: between Bryansk and Kharkov. He is basically leaving buffer hexes between the two armies.




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 9:53:31 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 9:55:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		And no buffer hexes in the center either. Oh, now I have 5 Guards Rifle Divisions




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 10:00:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Apparently I will soon have a 6 million men army. Not too bad. Did I already say 2ndACR should be making testament? No? Then I say it now...

Overall during the summer he was chasing ghosts... During the Frontier District Massacres he captured 700.000 men. But after that he only managed to capture 300.000 men. And to be honest I was concentrating my forces around his most dangerous units. I mean, my men were just in front of him. Except of course in the South, where I clearly was in retreat mode.




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 10:06:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		If I remember correctly on my other first game I think the kill ratio was more a 1:3. Now it's more a 1:2. I guess being agressive is paying dividends.

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 10:22:26 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 10:27:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		If I counted well, so far he destroyed 101 Soviet Divisions. And I only destroyed 2. He wins!




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 10:27:50 PM   
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It will be interesting to see just how his defences hold up in the blizzard

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/26/2011 11:18:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		2ndACR has had some bad experiences early with the blizzard where his army basically just melted away when the Russians used the "vodka breath" secret weapon on them.

Will be interesting to see how he holds up considering this is one of the first AAR's using 1.04 rules during the blizzard. I am sort of surprised that he isn't giving some ground everywhere in December when the Axis are at their most vulnerable or perhaps he is testing the new rules, etc.

Clearly he did not do enough damage to the Red army during the summer campaign, but that is a subject for another day.

Good work TD and now it will be interesting to see how well you can unleash the hordes.

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 12:11:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		So far I would say the killing of Sire Chaos' and 2ndACR's forces was more fun. That was all about maneuvering, out-flanking, surrounding, nasty massive infiltrations... From what I am seeing the Blizzard Offensive does look like a steamroller slowly advancing. You're pushing the enemy a few hexes per turn. But of course the Cavalry Corps along with the Tank Brigades might exploit some successful attacks

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 12:24:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm done in Leningrad area. Two helds. 2ndACR will be happy again This Front is again an active front, which means I am occupying enemy hexes (aka advancing).




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:16:05 PM   
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Leningrad
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Northwest
Southwest

Volkhov and Northwest Fronts attacks.




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:18:22 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:23:07 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:33:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Few attacks in the Bryansk Front: the buffer hexes thing. Two Cavalry Corps will try to create a big mess behind his lines...




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:35:06 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:37:30 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:39:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I can't see how I would be making 45 retreats minimum per turn Most of the attacks would be against the odds

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 10:51:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Now I really can see what means having almost 6 million men. During the Blitzkrieg I had places with lots of hordes and places with few units: concentration of forces at work that is.

But now, I have strenghtened ALL the armies: they have minimum 20:24 CP. Therefore I am sort of spreading my forces. And despite this ALL the armies are quite strong! And all the fronts have now their reserves (especially 3 rifle divisions each). In other words, I don't need to bring more troops to the front, I already have enough Well, there is an exception. The Rifle Naval/Cadet Brigades are quite good (some of them 3=4 when ready ). I will possibly send them to the front, I want them to be reserves of the front line armies

Which means the rifle divisions in the rear -along with the new ones which will be arriving as reinforcements-- will be forming the Reserve Armies I want in place on 1942.

And let's not forget the many many Rifle and Airborne brigades -and Fortified Regions- digging to prepare many defensive lines behind all my fronts.

So yes, I have plenty of forces, now I REALLY can see it!

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/27/2011 11:36:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		In the Center, these are the defensive lines in place. More will be formed. Let's say I am a paranoid... There will be more or less the same thing along the whole front, especially in Leningrad and Moscow approaches and in the South (tank country).




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/29/2011 2:26:44 PM   
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Turn 27

18 december 1941


2ndACR is still happy "Well, at least I am not seeing the complete collapse of an entire front. I think the changes have helped a lot". Well... maybe he is right... or maybe I simply SUCK! The thing is I never played the blizzard offensive before. So I don't know what the German CVs were. I am seeing CVs like 3=12/18/2x and let's say fort levels 2 or 3. I ran some tests and no, even if my CVs are high, the enemy held.

Some pages ago I said what would be my objectives during this Blizzard thing. Basically 3 things: protect Moscow and Leningrad and push him especially in the south (where he advanced a lot during the summer that is). The truth is one of the objectives has already been achieved... And NO, I haven't done anything. He is retreating, leaving lots of buffer hexes (his forces relatively close to Moscow). So I don't really need to push him here. I would like to, but he is running away. Chicken!

Oh, and I am using Redmarkus' map

The screenshot with my Blizzard Offensive objectives thing.




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/29/2011 2:35:57 PM   
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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/29/2011 2:48:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		He is still very weak in this part of the south... I should push him big time AND then turn southwards... I will not trap his strong forces in the south (Stalino area), but I guess I would be forcing him to retreat from there...




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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/29/2011 6:40:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		One spot I like to work while doing Russian counter offensives is just south of Lake Ilmen. That could be important in this game as well (although not likely) because he has a salient there and I could see him massing troops in it and trying for a big hook to cut Leningrad off. That would be a lot of Russian troops out of the war that don't come back for free anymore.

I also think 2ndACR is feeling a bit better, perhaps not taking into account the restrictions the Russians are under with the house rules that were agreed to because I think you have the ability to launch a front wide offensive if you decided to.

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/29/2011 6:50:45 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Klydon

I also think 2ndACR is feeling a bit better, perhaps not taking into account the restrictions the Russians are under with the house rules that were agreed to because I think you have the ability to launch a front wide offensive if you decided to.


I don't think the Blizzard Rule is being that important. Ater all, I still can make above "45 retreats" (which I haven't been able to do so far), so I am attacking in many fronts. But true, IF I don't advance after dislodging his forces this means he's got an extra turn to dig and rest.

I will be defending of course Leningrad and Moscow on 1942, but I very much doubt he'll be really threatening me. I will have MANY forces (front-line armies and Reserve Armies). Not to mention the units preparing defensive lines behind. And the units themselves will be more experienced and with more morale. If he wants to achieve something he will need to concentrate his panzers. And therefore I will be massing my forces (and I will have a LOT)... I am rather confident, but still, I will defend in depth, just like the Soviets.

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RE: Stalin's in the gulag - Tullius (Soviet) vs 2ndACR ... - 4/29/2011 8:12:18 PM   
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