Murmansk Front HQ

[Bossy20000]

Have we got enough planes on this front? If so, you could (!!!) try to keep it, by using the fighters as anti-air raid defence, and launch a new offesnive next winter to take Norway. I know that this is risky, but it could make a large difference for the convoys coming from the UK. I don't say we should do this, I just say we should consider it and discuss it.

[H Tower]

the murmansk front has 5 LA-5 fighters unless they lost one this turn, but they seem to be pretty busy taking on the Finns right now

[PinkyGen]

Good job getting those needed convoys through, soon we will be swimming in capitalist dollars like the capitalist cartoon cartoon character, Scrooge McDuck.

With the planning of offensives on other fronts, and this area secure, I think we could stay on the defensive, or if not, attack the Finns, and be willing to lose Hammerfet. The rest of Norway should wait until the Finns are done, secure the region and the flanks before advancing into the Scandanavian penninsula.

[Bossy20000]

I agree, comrade PinkyGenovitch, but if we lose Hammersfest, the offensive against Norway will have gotten a serious setback! If we want to take Norway next year, we should try to keep the city. If we won't try to take Norway next year, we can afford to lose it, and concentrate on Finnland. This country is annoying for both the Murmansk and the Baltic front, and once taken will free many troops for other duties.
But again, all depends on comrade Yopovs plans for next year: will he try to take Norway or not?

[PinkyGen]

I was under the impression that the Hammerfest capture was just a raid, in order to ease the convoys getting through by temporarily removing a Nazi air base.

I am not saying abandon the city, but if Yop would rather send units to defend or attack against Finns, or to hunt subs, then I consider Hammerfest secondary, particulary since we are busy selling its improvements. It's loss would not truly be a setback, since when we conceived the operation, we did not plan on holding it.

Of course, the decision is utlimately in Yop's hands, as its his fronts and knows what he can hold or not hold.

[yop73]

I say we focus on the Finns for now. They are more dangerous than the Germans on my front.

I was also thinking about launching an attack against Helsinki even this summer. The Baltic commander and I must however first make some deals. (e.g. the transport ships that are needed in the action, or the production of Katyushkas in Leningrad which then will be used against Helsinki, etc.)

[EZRhino]

Never underestimate the power of the Nazi 88's.

[Bossy20000]

Go and free the oppressed Finnish proletariat, comrade Yopov! This mission has the approval of your Party Ideologist (as far as you consider this approval important ) We shall learn our northern brothers the true communist spirit!
But as our comrade said, never underestimate the power of playst... euhm their army!

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by EZRhino
Never underestimate the power of the Nazi 88's.

Ya thats a fact! I tried to take Helsinki in the late game (Late '43 I think) and those 88's sometime took at least 2 katyusha's! Each one!

[yop73]

Action report for July 1942:

*2 Finnish infantery and 1 Feldhaubitze were killed in the swamps and forests of inner Finland.
*2 AA's and 1 Feldhaubitze who had foolishly parked themselves outside Viipuri and Kitela were killed by Soviet katyushka divisions.
*1 freighter with 4 convoys arrived at the minefield near Murmansk. It is now safe.
*1 submarine near the UK killed.

[PinkyGen]

Originally posted by yop73
Action report for July 1942:


*1 freighter with 4 convoys arrived at the minefield near Murmansk. It is now safe.

4 convoys!!! Comrade Yopovitch, the Ministry of Economics salutes you.

[yop73]

*2 Finnish infantery killed in the marches of inner Finland. 1 Feldhaubitze battery who was besieging Viipuri has been destroyed.
*1 sub near the UK destroyed. Murmansk is packed with convoys. (7 convoys) 1 convoy was airlifted into Grozniy this turn.
*Heroïc cossacks attack Narvik and manage to kill a German He-111 bomber squadron. They are now outside the city walls, vulnerable to a German counterattack, so they are expected to be lost next turn. These men must however always be remembered as heroes of the Soviet Union. I salute you.

[greeny]

Considering the number of convoys in Murmansk would it not be best to drive some of them south to leningrad and ship some over to Archangelsk

[yop73]

I was thinking of that too. I've already moved some to Kandalashka this turn. Maybe someone could change the production of Archelansk into a freighter.

[PinkyGen]

What about those freighters that brought the convoys in the first place? Can't those deliver the convoys, or have they already been disbanded?