Slitherine

One more retreat from this battlefield that has seen many deads so far What a meat grinder!!!

Yeah, tonight i was doing my turn with a stuck-in-a-snowstorm-german-army and the funny thing is that in real life i am also stuck in a snowstorm.

I am working on the road (rep sales) and tonight i will sleedpin a high school gymnasium since all the road out of the damned citiy are closed. So i really feel for my german minions tonight!!!!! Damn i dont know if i am going to sleep. So i di some more analysis and work on my screen captures so you guys will be getting more info, i have all night!

And to hell with damned Montmagny, Quebec, that damned stuck-in-the-snow city in the middle of nowhere!!! hehehe

Wow. That's one powerful looking tank army group you have in southern Russia.

rkr1958 wrote:Wow. That's one powerful looking tank army group you have in southern Russia.

Yes and i fully intend to use it once get the opportunity. The general plan is that i want to position them north of Vinitsa when the winter is over since i should have retreated that far by then and launch an oblique counter-offensive right in his flanks with my repaired and renewed airforce that will be in range to bomb his force by then. By the nature of offensive, Pangen should at one point over-extend himself like i did in the summer or fall43 and thats when i'll hit as hard as i can.

The 2 tanks in the north will also be used for this, but they have been sent north for now to plug gaps in the line.

My offensive will not be designed to win the game but to offset Pangen into thinking tht i still have the initiative so he will set himself on the defense, and thus the game will be over since the summer 44 will be the last chance he gets to try and win this by sprint in taking Berlin

The war has been raging for 5 long years already. Started by a rapid invasion of Poland, it was followed by a lightning campaign thru France, Low Countries abd Britain, where all of its fleet was oblitarated. A Landing in Canada was next in line and it took the german forces a long while to finish off the brits in Ottawa. Then followed a long, slow and meat ginding campaing thru the Eastern US seaboard. again the german army was victorious.

But all of that came at a price. The german forces, over-extended and overtaxed, are now in a state of dissaray, with no decent man to replace the 8 million casuality that were inflicted on the brave Wermarcht so far.

The Luftwaffe, constantly overmatched since the campaign in France, has suffered heavily. The Kriegsmarine was totally oblitarated in the North American campaign.

So it is now 1944, and one last great offensive has been planed by the german high-command. The storyline isnt written on that one yet, but all hopes remains into destroying the southern army group of the Soviets in a wide stroke. In order to do this, the german reich has mustered all his remaining ressources into makign sure that local superiority will me maintained early on in the campaign, where it has to break the Russian offensive power. Only this way can the Nazi forces can stabilize the front for good and negociate a peace settlement with Russia where they can divide the wolrd. Already, the german leadership has put feeler to Soviet Russia into a potential peace, but Stalin isnt ready to look into the possibility, not while he thinks he can break the german forces.

So here is the beginning story of operation "Der Sieg", the last ditch offensive of Adolf Hitler


German forces are hard-pressed to defend against the Soviets in the Kiev River Line. They need to hold as long as possible for Manstein forces and grand plan to be ready


The Soviet airforce being the dominant player that it is on the Ostfront, the german forces have deployed as many Flak units as possible in the theater. Not much hope, but at least a little bit of comfort for the troops seeing that at least the germans are firing back at the ennemy


The german army is still busy building defensive positions all over northern Russia, where the wermarcht needs to play a holding action against the soviets

Hard fighting in the wooded area of the North, were many allied-axis units have been obliterated. Now the line is almost exclusively manned by poorly equipped italians or brave german forces... The Russian are pushing as hard as they can, but the soldiers are holding...


Defensive line north of Kiev. These positions have been prepared and manned since 1941, so they are formidable and have never been retaken by the russians


The Vinitssa tank repair shops have been very busy since the fall 1943. Tanks need to be refitted and repaired. Here a picture of a tank getting an overhaul. The panzer forces are almost back at full strenght


Another pic of brave mech working at the Vinitsa location to repair the panzerdivisionen


Forces are being assembled in the southern part of Russia, Major armored forces. Manstein think he can overmatch the russians in armor by concentrating all of the reich panzer forces in one offensive. A classic knockout blow. The offensive will need to be shard, strong and fast since if its too long the Soviet airforce will deplete it too much. One pic of a damned tough tank: The Tiger 1. Hitler is putting a lot of hopes on this new tank for the upcoming offensive...



More Tigers in repair-maintenance shops


Another Tiger


Tiger in combat practice south of Vinitsa


Tanks moving thru mud and snow


Another tank moving thru the endless white steppe


And least but not least, the Luftwaffe... Greatly overtaxed since the days of the french campaign, it is now only a shadow of itself. Losses have been so numerous... All the grat aces are gone... Only new pilots with outdated machines to face better soviet planes... Here is a highly confidential pic of a prototype jet plane supposed to change all that. German scientist expect it to be a reality in 1945 only...


BF-109k at the Lvov airbase... The german Luftwaffe has been concentrated in one major area to be refitted and repaired for the last-ditch offensive in the south.


BF-109k training over the skies at Lvov


German Stukas flying in formation over the polish skies waiting to face the Soviets



One more Bf-109 that will be sent to the meatgrinder soon...


Now is April, german soldiers are using the little time left before the onslaught to relax...



HOPE, as they say, come in different shapes and sizes. Luck, as stated many times in this ARR, favors the bold. We will again see if this is yet again true...

I don't think Ploesti is as big a deal in this game as many of the others. You have oilfields in North America that are still giving you some oil. It's definitely not like vanilla, either, where if the Russians are close enough to hit Ploesti down to 0 production, the Germans are in for a world of hurt. You have other oil production facilities in GS.

Nice pictures!

I think given your scientists progress in dog fight, the ETA on the Me 262's would be more accurately stated as 1965 and not 1945...

TotalerKrieg wrote:Nice pictures!

I think given your scientists progress in dog fight, the ETA on the Me 262's would be more accurately stated as 1965 and not 1945...

How true but hell i can have hopes!!!!!

Clark wrote:I don't think Ploesti is as big a deal in this game as many of the others. You have oilfields in North America that are still giving you some oil. It's definitely not like vanilla, either, where if the Russians are close enough to hit Ploesti down to 0 production, the Germans are in for a world of hurt. You have other oil production facilities in GS.

I would agree with you if i were planning to stay on the defense but i intend to launch myself into an offensive again in 44, and with 9 tanks it moght be costly for the oil gage

The war starts again after a 10 days lull. We are entering the last phase of this great adventure!

Well, nothing to report except that i hope Pangen will launch himself into an offensive in the soth and center and north. This would give me the counter-attack opportunity i am looking for.

Sorry no screen captures forgot to copy...

So my opponent was pretty happy about talking to me about Operation Bagration in his emails. Well, now it was stopped with the destruction of his 2 lead tanks. The Luftwaffe amde a re-appearance in the war at full force and with a good effectiveness. My planes will finally be able to be some kind of a match against Pangen forces. So we will see what Pangen does since ive blunted his offensive capability in the north. Does he have more reserves? IF yes, well i also have reserves so we will see which ones runs out first

In the south the tactical withdrawal continues, while i hope Pangen will continue to advance on a North-Eastern angle flanked on his left by the river. This is where i intend to punch decisively if gods permits me so.

The Nazi still pack a lot of punch and intend to use it

FINALLY, after all those months of preperations and patiently looking at Pangen "irrisistible" advance and destruction of minor insignificant units, i was able to have a shot a re-claiming the initiative.

Army group south launched itself in a powerful counter-stroke in a frontal assault that saw the destruction of 5 INF and most importantly 3 Armor.

In the north the battle is also raging and the airbattle is not to our disadvantage anymore.

The Axis forces are on the win side again. Let see how long it will last. Believers in final axis victory, rise!!!

In the MEd Panger finally did what i had foreseen 10 turns or more ago, that is the naval exploitation of his middle east victory. The italian subs were all over his feeble transports.

You guys have one hell of a AAR going here. Fantastic work in presenting these:).

BuddyGrant wrote:You guys have one hell of a AAR going here. Fantastic work in presenting these:).

Thanks man!

Yep, the german high-command has decided yet again to retreat from the theatre, leaving its dead and the rotting russian corpses.

Damn this is a fun and WEIRD game! To think i control England , Canada and the USA, but didnt even attack Denmark or Yougoslavia! hehehe

I am still baffled as to Russian resistance, but things happen when you spend all your strenght on other spots than in Russia. GS is very different from the Vanilla game. Ah i made it and was able to get most of the map, no one will be able to take that away from me!

Anyway we now retreated to better defensible positions. Pangen is going to continue to eat up away against mi minors, but realistically, this is the best thing i can do, hold him the longest possible until the bad weather sets in and then the game will be won. If i can hold Pangen to the outskirts of Russia till the muddy season arrives 3 turns away maybee), then i'll have a hell of a nice retreat into Poland where i will able to re-organize yet once again and defend the country for the short summer season ahead. And besides, his offensive power is now somewhat depleted, and he knows that if he advances too much he will be smacked again.

Max,

This is from a post I made in PG's AAR.

rkr1958 wrote:PG, this game has been invaluable for uncovering bugs that happen when all countries of a given allied faction have been conquered (i.e., UK/USA/France or Russia). We now have a fix to results in partisans still be spawned and not being disbanded when the US/UK/France are all defeated.

See: viewtopic.php?p=140790#140790

email to GS testers wrote:We've found and corrected a major bug that occurs in the rare condition that all countries in the UK/USA/French fraction are defeated (e.g., PanzerGeneral's AAR). The attached mini-path contains that fix and must be applied over v1.04.

And this request,

rkr1958 wrote:PG,

I'll also post this in Max's AAR; but if you two could agree to apply v1.05 w/the latest mini-patch that could give us more confidence in the changes we've made.