The Belorussian Front HQ - (Darius)

[Colwyn]

Provide me the tools (kv1's) and I will move mountains.

I think however that the enemy will be at the gates to moscow before the KV1's come around as we effectivly lost a turn in the phantom move and the facists are at Minsk already.

However if the armourments minster can provide then defend further up I will.

[EZRhino]

It is not unusual to lose Minsk on the first turn. As long as we have Mobile Warfare II by August, we should be fine.

[curtsibling]

My commander, you shall have the best! As soon as I can create it!
I shall concentrate on KV1s as soon as I have the new factories ready and re-tooled!

[Shaka Naldur]

Re: Reality?

Originally posted by Colwyn
About 10% of the time I can hold this cities outside moscow and thats playing with the same rules we have here.

No pillaging fortress's (if you had and been successfull) then this game is going to be different.

No playing phantom turn (this is the biggy as if you do you can reinforce most fronts with 3-6 good units, these we will not have.

Still think it will be a easy thing to have smolensk/vietsbsk in soviet hands?

Let me know if you have played with our rules and what success's you got.

so your suggestions is to have a defensive line at moscow?
what about kaluga?
well, if you have played the game I'll agree with you

I have to recogn that I did the UK airlift cheat so i had more money than we are going to have

[Colwyn]

Preliminary war plans for July 1941

I have listened to you all my faithful soviets, and I have decided that i will try to bottle neck the aproach of the Panzer Group 2 by

"building a minefield with the moscow labor brigades and pillageling the road in the gap within the forest between Minsk and Smolensk and using 2 Pe bombers as support"

This will leave moscow a little weak for a month of two but I have much confidence that the Marshall and the minsters of armourments will reinforce our capital using tanks and mech inf from various other places which can move fast in summer which will be more than enough until 2 Kv1's are airlifted to moscow/gorkiy.

If we can also get some T-28's to moscow we can retool them at the start of winter.

My commanders are all itching to open fire on the facists once the marhsal gets the order from stalin to attack.

[Colwyn]

Field telephones connected to our HQ

You can call my HQ on Yahoo messenger @ belorussianFrontHQ.

I'm often at my desk doing paper work, battle plans etc.

[Colwyn]

July 41 action report

Stripped sewers and waterworks to help with the economy.

Red army t-26's destroyed 2 PzkwIII's near vietbsk and pillaged the aproaches to vietbsk.

Brest fortress destroyed various SS units and dislodged some divisions sheltering in Brest city.

Moved some quality units to Minsk to slow down the germans, possibly allowing the PE2 to provide bomber cover to the region if minsk hangs on.

45mm AT ambushed a scout Panzergrandier near minsk.
first german captives of the war.

[Colwyn]

belorussian front july 1941

Odds for Minsk with so much german armour? WHere are all our promised tanks cries the soviet tankers still in t-26's or worse.

[Colwyn]

Here is pic

Front line

[curtsibling]

Fight with valour, Comrade Colwyn!

You bring great glory to Mother Russia!

[Colwyn]

Action report Aug 1941

Railroad terminals disbanded in Minsk, Smolensk and Vietbsk for the war effort. Libraries in Kaluga and Tula. approx 500,000 rubles added.

2 PzkwIV Grp2 divisions destroyed around the suburbs of minsk.

2 Wermach SG divsions slaughted in swamp West of minsk by a I-16 and a Waffen SS in the pripart marshes by another I-16

2 t-26's take out anotehr PzkwIV Grp2 approaching minsk, one destroyed in the battle.

T-34 chases down a defecting soviet anti tank unit and crushes them underfoot.

Machine gun and cavalry unit destroy 2-4 tanks divisons of PZkw III's near minefields near Vitebsk.

Defence set around 2 blocking zones West of smolensk and North of Vitesbk.

Red army units pillage various roads to slow down the panzers.

Reinforcements moving up the front from the east, modern aircraft/tanks sorely needed but not yet in production.

[Henrik]

Why not kill that stuka with your infantry?
The AI cheats by leaving stukas in the air (as they have a range of 1 and should crash) but luckily this means that land units can attack them (especially as that one looks like it's hanging over a swamp and is allready wounded...).

[Colwyn]

Let me just say

that when you kill some units in summer 41 it just spawns 4 more!

[Henrik]

Lol, I didnt know that whent for stukas! :-!

[Shaka Naldur]

is that true for stukas?