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ORIGINAL: philturco A question to Larry but all TOAW players opinions are welcome. Do you have a preference for playing the total east front war using the older FITE ( divisions broken down as 3 regiments of line infantry or armor plus an artilary regiment ) or the newer more detailed FITE2 with a larger map and more units ?
Ummmmmm......I've tried the new FITE2 scenario and it's really first class but it's SO BIG. It's not fun for me to play it because I keep getting lost on the map. I keep having to zoom up to find out where I am and it's tedious after a while. But on the other hand the FITE map and I are old friends and I've played FITE probably five or six times against various people. I've never won a FITE game and that's why I'm obsessed with it I guess.
Here's the front lines in T7 before I have started moving people.
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Some of my units are reaching Pskov and I see it's turned into a fortress and I'll have to go around it to make some progress. I'll need some engineers to leap over the river just south of Pskov and see if I can't find some way around them.
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Here's the reason I need to stop at the Berezina River....the supply levels are too low to continue on to the east. Pestulance effects kick in when the units are overextended and my threashold for
that is 0 according to the situation report but I'd rather not venture into areas where there is no supply at all. I'm comfortable with about 5 or 7 or so. Something even if only a little.
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Here's what's going on in Lapland. The Finns are slowly pushing the Soviets backward and killing them. They are clearing the roads and rails heading east and south.
In Finland the Soviets are in some disarray in Lapland as my scattered forces there are pushed aside. The stronger defence line between Viipurii and Hiitola continues to hold however.
Further South the initial MLR's for Leningrad are along the River Narva to the South West and running East from Pskov though the Germans are pushing against the Pskov garrison already.
On the Central Front the roadblocks running North and South from surrounded Minsk are almost destroyed but Minsk itself continues to resist. The two main MLR 's In The centre run along the upper Dnestr centred on Smolensk with the more robust line to west of Moscow.
In the South the lower Dnestr has been forded by the German 11th Army near Tiraspol but the defenders of most bridges fight on. Odessa has minimal defences and is likely to fall before too long
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After a few turns of being instantly massacred the Soviet Air capability is gradually building up in Siberia and I have a decision to make when it can be committed.
Likewise no less than 9 full conscript armies are gathering units and strength in the East and again the defence lines described above need to ideally delay the Germans long enough that all are at full strength before being sent west. Whether this is remotely possible remains to be seen. My biggest concern continues to be Leningrad.
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The overview shows things little changed thanks to Larry failing a proficiency check early in his turn so the heroic 13th Army at Minsk continues to hold inflicting another 200+ Infantry and Engineering Squad losses on the Wehrmacht and I suspect this is affecting the German supply net in AGC as he mentions supply is very poor to the East of the city. Whilst the Germans are a month behind the historical capture of Minsk (it fell on 26th June 1941) they are well ahead in the deep south where forward elements of the 11th Army and 4th Rumanian Army have reached the outer defences of Odessa. As the historical siege of Odessa didn't start until 8th August and it held out until 16th October this is not a good sign on the Southern Front.
Pskov also holds despite an assault on the bridge there but efforts to reinforce the defenders to the East of the city are hampered by quite ferocious interdiction.
The isolated German garrison in Henko on the Finnish southern peninsular was overwhelmed last turn and once again Soviet forces in Finland are under pressure along the length of the front.
I have again delayed the despatch of the armies forming in the East which are still at low levels of strength and proficiency in the hope they will improve but once the doomed defenders of the Stalin Line and the Sluch River are overwhelmed and Minsk falls the road to Smolensk and Moscow is open so they will have to be released to the Front.
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Here's the T9 front lines before I have started moving units. You can see the ring around Minsk and the solid line of Germans assaulting head-on into the Stalin Line. I've almost reached Narva up north where the bottleneck occurs. The Soviets are ready for us.
With the situation in Finland deteriorating the 23rd Army retreats towards the fortified line North of Leningrad though the 14th Army falls into reorganisation and is probably doomed further north.
Pskov continues to hold with the bridge held by armour and with at least another tank brigade in reserve but pressure is mounting.
In Estonia Tallinn also continues to hold out for now despite being assaulted by land and being shelled by the German Baltic Fleet.
Most gratifying of all the 13th Army still hangs on in Minsk with its exhausted gunners taking out another 70 Infantry and Engineering squads from the besieging Germans....this resistance is hugely important as the lines around Moscow and Smolensk are reinforced.
In another couple of turns the air shock improves from 75 to 100 for the Soviets and there is at least a possibility of contesting the air war...(German air shock will still be 115). Interdiction by the Luftwaffe remains a big issue. Air losses this turn, when my turn ended were around 80 to each side.
Further South the Stalin line...always a ramshackle cobbled together defence structure pretty much disintegrates and those mobile units that are able to escape code towards Kiev.
The siege of Odessa is well underway and hopes are not high but the city remains under Soviet control for now.
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Minsk finally falls with the few remnants of the 13th Army fighting on in the suburbs on their way to collecting posthumous medals. Another 125 German infantry and engineering squads are taken out by these heroes but the resistance has just about ended.
German forces now are mopping up the remnants of the Stalin line on their way towards Smolensk.
In the south interdiction hits troop trains hard hampering the attempt to reinforce positions south and west of Kharkov. Around Odessa the arrival of German monster artillery pieces spells doom for the garrison whose guns aided by the last remaining ships of the Black Sea Fleet deal out some minor damage to the besieging Rumanian 4th Army.
All units that can escape from Finland north of Leningrad have now done so and the digging of trenches continues apace around the city. For now defences on the river Narva are holding as is Pskov further south though again the attacks are increasing in force.
In happier news the veteran Soviet Marines of the 1st Naval Group continue to fight fiercely for Tallinn and influict 42 German squad losses for the loss of just 6 of their own despite also being bombarded by the Kriegsmarine.
More partisans start to arrive behind the advance of Army Group Centre and it is to be hoped the German communications can at least be hampered a little.
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