Murmansk Front HQ

[Henrik]

As the General of the Leningrad front (and the cause of your loss of some valuable units ) I must say you're doing very well Comrade, General Yopov.

[Shaka Naldur]

Originally posted by yop73
Why is everybody complaining about what I did with the front???
I moved practically my entire army towards Leningrad in the south, and the north will be held.
I did it because the marchall gave me explicit orders...

I'm not complaining, your situation is really bad and I think you are making an excellent job
I read you story at civfanatics and I know you are good enough to handle this situation
but I'm just saying that I would had done it in a different way, but it is your front not mine,
and I trust you comrade

[Ben Kenobi]

Is the road still open?

Good job handling my old front.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by obiwan18
Is the road still open?

Good job handling my old front.

On and off, all the cities are being held but occassionally the Facists get a unit on the road.

If we can survive this winter of Finn attacks we will be home free I think.

[yop73]

Dear comrades,
First of all, I'm proud to report that this turn only 1 casualty has been reported in the North.
Therefore, I present to you my plan for this month. It will be hard to execute, but our troops in the North are motivated so I'm sure they will do their job.

*I'm planning on occupying all the forts that are now in Finnish territory. So the Finnish have no safe place to go to ...
*I'm also planning an assault on the fort right next to Helsinki.
*For the rest, just staying on the defensive and building defensive stuff.
*I also request, again, that a KV-1 or T-34 is airlifted into Murmansk this turn. If not, we could lose the city in the summer.

Here you see some pictures from the north of the Kola, with the red arrows as soon to be made offensives.

[yop73]

And here are my plans for in the south of the Kola.

[Shaka Naldur]

nice job yop, I like your plan
next time post the pictures in gif or jpg, please, it is easier for us

[yop73]

sorry

[conmcb25]

Yop

For some reason the Website isn't "showing" .bmp files. I dont know why. I converted to a .jpeg with paint. Here it is:

[conmcb25]

This looks like an ambitious plan.

On the Arty units I would wait till they move next to a city and then hammer them. That way your units that attacked can remain in the city and heal up.

If you let the units finish a turn outside of the city then they are vulnerable to counterattack.

With the pilaging of roads the only thing that can move and attack in the same turn is the Finn Infantry. If you can hold out against them this winter I believe you will have survived the immediate threat.

In the mean time, IF I remain as Marshall we will finance rush builds of units and get you some Siberian reinforcements eventually. I only have one airport in the Urals right now but a second one is planed for Chelybinsk soon.

[conmcb25]

Think about this:

Somewhere in the Orange Circle is a facist City that is usually lightly garrisoned.

We could build you several Red Guards who are very mobile in the winter, as you know, in Murmansk, and they could advance on that city and storm it. That would go a long towards eliminating the air threat from Norway to our precious convoys.

You must stay at least one Hex away from the Facist Crusier that is now landlocked in the lake by where Petsamo used to be. If you end a turn next to that lake the cruiser will attack and probably destroy a Red Guard.

Something to think about comrade taking the war to Axis territory and liberating our Norwegian brothers!

[conmcb25]

BTW I would attack and eliminate the facist plane near Kandalaksha, ground units can attack aircraft in winter!

One less facist plane to worry about next summer!

[H Tower]

Anadvance into Norway? are you quite mad? Not only will the Germans be at our throats again in the coming summer, but our commander is fearing the loss of murmansk, we do not have the resources to go on the offensive here, we need units more on the belorussian, baltic and northwest front.

Plus, any norweigan city we might capture would be on the water, which would put it within the sites of german naval guns, any unit that remained there would be dead by end of the month

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by H Tower
An advance into Norway? are you quite mad?

Well yes I guess I am crazy as a Fox comrade!

Originally posted by H Tower
Not only will the Germans be at our throats again in the coming summer, but our commander is fearing the loss of murmansk, we do not have the resources to go on the offensive here, we need units more on the belorussian, baltic and northwest front.

They will be down south, you worry about the Finns in the winter! In the summer Finn attacks are manageable. The resources needed will be minimal. A couple of Red Guard Units don't cost all that much.

Originally posted by H Tower
Plus, any norweigan city we might capture would be on the water, which would put it within the sites of german naval guns, any unit that remained there would be dead by end of the month

This maybe true but the capture of that city would disrupt Facist planes from attacking our convoys for months perhaps the entire summer. Or we might be able to starve it to death before the facists can counterattack.

Do you not want the Capitalist Convoys to get in comrade? Do yoiu have some deal with the facists? Is that why you insist upon this political struggle?

I hope you are enjoying the Gulag!

[yop73]

The turn was rather passive. I moved all units who attacked last turn back in the cities to heal. I just killed 3 Feldhaubitzes near Viipuri, 1 plane near Kandalasha and 1 Feldhaubitze near Tampere.