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ORIGINAL: caliJP I have to agree with Flavius things are looking grim for Kaiman It seems he scattered his efforts in multiple directions and left many Pz units vulnerable, and you did well against that Against a good soviet player, the Germans need to stay tighter Kaiman had no reason hooking Leningrad from Estonia. Moved to fast, and without infantry support 6 mot division can't do anything to break the frontline. The area of Narva is bady difficult, with forrest, swamp, and rivers, and the baltic is too big for 4th Pz army. Never worked from that way. It looks like Kaiman royally screwed up his opening. In AGN failing to take Venstpils is a killer mistake, because it allows a bunch of units to sail up to L-Grad. In addition, I suspect he routed a bunch of units out of the AGN pocket (if there even was one) and past the Dvina. The best way to get to L-Grad fast is to minimize the number of units in front of you. Conversely, having a bunch of Russians running around in your rear leads to what happened here. In AGC, failing to make the Bialystock pocket airtight is a big mistake, and is not that hard to do with a little practice. Finally, in AGS, he did not knock the Soviet front line units out of their forts. I think that is a big waste of your first turn surprise bonus, and it significantly delays the advance of 17th Army in particular. One question for you -- why abandon Odessa? Even against Germans, it can be a tough nut to crack, and even if the Germans win, your units just rout to a safe port (and you have delayed those german units' advance).
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