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ORIGINAL: Shermanny

I had a game of WITE that arrived at a situation not too terribly different from where you are now. I came within a hair of losing before rallying and pulling out a win. The thing that took me by surprise was how bad Soviet supply and morale get in early 1942. Defenses that would have been perfectly adequate in earlier iterations of the game just crumbled.

And where did my opponent go to come so close to winning? North and East, through Ivanov and Yaroslavl, Moscow, and to the gates of Gorki. I actually had to evacuate Gorki's industry. I knew I could hold the town, but I couldn't prevent it from being attacked and that can destroy industry.

In the end, I made it to the October 1942 reboot of Soviet morale, and stacks of guards rifle corps in Tambov held. One more city and it would have been over.

If you find yourself surviving 1942 with a frontage that is further West in the South than it is in the North, the natural line of counterattack is from the South, heading NW. You will be running parallel to the rivers and every advance tends to lengthen his frontage or, if he wants to avoid that, it makes him withdraw without a fight from the NE population centers you want to recover. Going straight west would be nice, but then you face good river lines and it's too obvious and you don't make him defend on a wide front.

Once you get force superiority you have the possibility of major operations, pockets, etc. But to cash in on that you need maybe 30 mobile corps, many of them should be guards tank corps, and you need enough guards rifle corps to be able to break the German lines before sending the tanks through. Enough would mean say 40 of them. But 50 or 60 would be better.

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ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

Each turn there is a die roll for damaged factories to determine if they will produce anything. Your factory at Lysovo probably failed that roll. That would give you 110*5.5= 605.

In my earlier post I mentioned I got an extra 4 trucks for reasons unknown. Here you got an extra 3. Bottom line, don't rely on a calculation here to figure out exactly what you get each week IF you have damaged factories, because of the die roll variable, just go with what the event log says. Once your factories are all undamaged and not moving about, the numbers remain fairly consistent. On occasion you may also produce fewer items if there are less supplies available than the factories require. You have 219 heavy industry factories, so that shouldn't happen if you manage things even half way right.

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ORIGINAL: GeneralfeldmarschallWalterModel

I believe if your now managing trucks you might be in trouble?

You should manage them from the beginning.

In my game I have 194,000 in pool and need 115k trucks on turn 36, the southern front is way past railheads.

You look to be doing good so far, very close game over all - good luck.

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ORIGINAL: GabrielBora

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ORIGINAL: topeverest

Question regarding support units.

What is a suggested mix of support units. I need to set them to manual next turn and disband some units of marginal use. here is what I have.

12 mortars (9 heavy)
28 AA units attached to armies (not cities)
103 artillery units
25 motorcycle
45 engineer (22 regiment and 23 battalion)

What would be a good approach. Thinking of getting rid of AAs first for sappers

Thoughts?

this is what the soviets had in jan 42, so you could make up your mind .

56 tank batalions
57 atg regiments
119 arty regiments
88 aaa bat + 2 aaa regiments.
18 mortar batalions
6 rocket regiments + (73 batalions (equivalent to 24 regiments))
31 separate ponton bridge batalions
150 engineer batalions (equivalent to 50 sapper regiments)
32 engineer brigades (construction units)

http://teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/BoevojSostavSA/1942/oob-1942.html

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ORIGINAL: Stelteck

I personnally have mixed feeling about support units. They have a huge cost in political points and are not so efficient. They do not do so much damage (even heavy artillery & tanks) nor provide so much CV value.
(But do not disband them, if you have them, use them. Disbanding have a cost).

In my game as soviet, i put 3 support units to each corps and large support units to each HQ, but i wonder if it would have been a good idea to create more in game units (such as cavalry corps) instead.