vicberg
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I'm in an ok position. I'm not quite comfortable though.
I can still push accross multiple hexes towards Moscow. I straightened lines there and have 3 PZGs there with infantry support. At a minimum, I'm hopefully doing enough damage to prevent a soviet counter attack in winter. I doubt that based on his current attacking without winter, so I'm worried about the blizzard.
In the south, the lines are too stretched.
Brings me to another lesson learned. Go where they aren't. Viktor likes strong stacks every two to three hexes and others in reserve mode. If solid defenses are facing AGC past Smolensk, then shift the panzers south. That could have straightened my lines at lot easier than pounding through his strength in the north.
The hedgehog is quite effective. This goes back to BigAnorak's idea of a war of attrition. Go slower in the north in 41, unless encircle opportunities show themselves or there are light defenses, attack for moral and favorable loss ratio's, set up for 41 winter and 42 campaign. In the south, I could have exploited his light defenses from south of Smolensk down to Kursk with Panzers and set up for a better winter defense and 42 campaign. The goal being Rostov, Kursk, Orel, etc.. In essence, I played right into his strength and also got PZG2/PZG3 bogged in the woods east of Vitibesk. Against someone like Viktor, I'm not going to get many encircle opporunties, so this should have been the time to set up for the war of attrition in 42.
Lesson learned there.
All this assumes no muling. That would have made all the difference in the world.
< Message edited by vicberg -- 3/31/2012 4:19:25 PM >
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