September 1941: The Germans Advance

conmcb25 · April 27, 2003, 21:25

REINFORCEMENTS MOVED UP

Tbilisi to Stavropol Katyusha and 152 mm Arty Both ran out of movement.

Ashkastran Red Army Vet finished trip to Stalingrad and Fortified.

Kirov T-26's arrived and were Fortified in Moscow.

NKVD Trooper Fortified in Tikvin

Vitebsk Fighter from Minsk to Smolensk for rehoming.

Three Rostov Fighters to Stalingrad for rehoming (Just in case)

Refugees moved east from near Ashkatran. Those that were supported by Voroshilovgrad were rehomed to Uralsk.

The Voroshilovgrad supported 152mm Arty in Rostov rehomed to Rostov.

Why were so many units in cities left with movement? Shouldn't they be fortified or moved? Are these the units available for reinforcement?

Also another question. A request was made between front commanders for tanks from Stalingrad to Serofimovich. I saw a T-26 in Sera and two or three in Stalingrad. The T-26's in Stalingrad still had movement and were not fortified. Should I have moved them?

Urals Build Up

T-34 Sverdlosk 250
barracks Orsk 75
barracks Kirov 70
barracks Tashkent 60
Kollectiv Orenburg 100
Kollectiv Kubyshev 100
Kollectiv Vorkuta 110

If I added correctly thats about 665. Under budget, my addition to support the KV-1 Build up!

OK Ill let the German turn roll and record that. EVERYONE let me know if I screwed anything up. German turn in next post.

Colwyn · April 27, 2003, 21:51

I'm very nervous, can't wait till you post the turn, we reakon it will hold with 1-2 units barely left!

If not there may be a bit of discention in the cities this turn.

Right now as I post this the german's are probably at the gates of Minsk, thumping away on conmcb's PC

PS units fortifying in cities make no difference to there defensive str which the exception of aircraft I belive?

conmcb25 · April 27, 2003, 22:06

Comrade Pavlov (Colwyn)

Minsk fell lots of dissention. Sorry Comrade but the Fascist Pigs are everywhere! What a bunch of w@nkers. (I can speak a little Aussie

)

Kiev is still there with 14 units.

I fortified all the units. I didn't know about the doesn't add anything in cities. Hmmm.

Ill get the turn posted within the hour, Lots of typing and right now I have to get my Partisans to bed. (My three boys!)

If you think I did anything stupid let me know. I can replay if necessary. I DONT WANT TO SCREW THIS UP , and Im too old to take criticism personally.

conmcb25 · April 27, 2003, 23:18

REPORT FROM THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE

-Finnish Front 4 units lost.
-Fasicists develop Mob Arty (Karls!)
-Enemy Airlift Sofia
-Nikolaev captured: 51 rubles
-Kirovgrad captured: 31 rubles
-Kherson captured: 31 rubles
-Dnepropetrovsk captured:43 rubles
Minsk Captured!-102 rubles
The capture of Minsk results in the loss of Soviet Pragmatism. As a consequence our people have lost faith in the Party!They are turning back to that opium of the people the Orthodox religion!
AGC under FM Von Bock also trap 300.000 faithfull soldiers of the Rodina in the Western Ukraine. This is truely a disaster comrades. It maybe time for a purge!

I have many wonderfull vacation retreats for unsuccessfull generals in Siberia!

Numerous high ranking officers have already been brought to Moscow for execution!

Marshall Knapowsky appeals to the Soviet people to rise up and fight the Fascist horde! Civilian populations in city centers begin volunteering for labor Brigades to build ditches, fortifications and anti-tank barriers. Our Kollectivs have assigned over 75% of production to the war effort. Factory Workers are becomming soldiers and the women of the Rodina are becomming Factory Workers!

Labor brigades are already formed in many of your Front Command cities, put them to good use or evacuate them to the Urals!

- Large offensive outside of Narva, it holds but many fine soldiers of the Rodina die thwarting this massive attempt to open the roads to Leningrad. (Henrikov must be looking for another medal!

- We discover Mobile Warfare II (KV-1's)!

Next tech to research is Advanced flight II. (I saw this somewhere and guessed, before the next time Ill do a poll)

-68 total divisions lost.

-Panic struck: Velikiye Luki, Daugavpils, Kolhm, Gomel, Smoelensk, Kharkov, Demyansk, Voroshiovgrad, Sevastapol, Leningrad and Stalino. Get your cities under control comrades or else!

-Perekop disbanded Fortified position

-We also built A LOT of improvements, mostly Barracks, make sure your cities are set to produce the right stuff for the Rodina!

CONTINUE THE GOOD FIGHT COMRADES!!

(Any constructive criticism on this turn is welcome, Im going to open a Marshalls thread.)

conmcb25 · April 27, 2003, 23:48

From now on, when Front commanders return the save, please post who has already taken their turn and who has yet to play.

Marshal part 1 (conmcb25) Done
Murmansk (STYOM): Not yet
Baltic (Henrik) Not yet
Northwest (The Anzac): Not yet
Belorussian (colwyn): not yet
1st Ukranian (Shaka Nuldur): not yet
2nd Ukranian (Paul Hanson): not yet
Economic (greeny): not yet
Armaments (curtsibling): not yet
Marshal part2 (conmcb25) Not yet

Note: This is not the exact order of play

Clarifying: Front commanders are responsible for ALL units in their territory save the supply convoys which are under the control of the economic minister once they land in murmansk or any other russian port. This includes refugees and labor brigades. Although I do urge future marshal's to move the refugee convoys away from the front themselves to territory under the control of the armaments minister. My reasoning is that several movement points may remain once the refugees enter the area under the command of the armaments minister. This way the armaments minister has all the refugees in place during his turn without the possibility of missing one that gets moved to him after he has gone that turn.

For position descriptions please see this thread:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=82258

This was H Towers standard request. The only change I would like to propose is I will control refugees, see my Marshall's Bunker thread for discussion. I just think it may work better. Heres the Marshalls Bunker thread:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=84502

Colwyn · April 28, 2003, 00:50

taken the file

Colwyn · April 28, 2003, 02:02

Marshal part 1 (conmcb25) Done
Murmansk (STYOM): Not yet
Baltic (Henrik) Not yet
Northwest (The Anzac): Not yet
Belorussian (colwyn): Completed
1st Ukranian (Shaka Nuldur): not yet
2nd Ukranian (Paul Hanson): not yet
Economic (greeny): not yet
Armaments (curtsibling): not yet
Marshal part2 (conmcb25) Not yet

Note: This is not the exact order of play

My turn posted.

Who said Minsk Fell Marshal, they lie! send them to the gulags the germans only took our wonder but we got it back.

See Belorussian thread for details and pics of battle.

curtsibling · April 28, 2003, 04:07

Taking the file comrades!

curtsibling · April 28, 2003, 04:56

ARMAMENT MINISTER REPORT!

Refugees awaiting orders in:
Stalingrad,
Grozny,
Baku,
Orenburg,
Perm,
Orsk,

Many new workers will be ready to perform huge tasks of heroic building when they are transformed to labout after the summer!!!
Our Soviet people are making good their escape to the safety of the rear areas!
Heroic escape efforts of the Armaments Minister prevent massacre of refugees at Velikiye Luki!

Moving labour regiments to Volgda to begin military industry preparations.
Moving labour regiments to Saransk to begin military industry preparations.

Our cities are in order and churning our needed weapons to repel the capitalist/nazi hordes!
I have witnessed awesome defensive efforts at Kiev and Leningrad!

I propose Red Banner Orders be given to several front commanders!

The front is alive with the sounds of warfare!

Long live the Rodina!

curtsibling · April 28, 2003, 04:59

To inspire our comrades to great efforts, a message from our glorious Marshall and father of the people!

conmcb25 · April 28, 2003, 08:58

Armaments and Belorussian Fronts are done who wants to be next? Hurry Comrades the Fasicist Pigs are very Near!

Henrik · April 28, 2003, 08:58

Taking the file.

Henrik · April 28, 2003, 09:33

4 Panzer IIIs and a few wermacht SG killed

One sewer system sold.
Request rush buying of one KV 1 in Narva (becouse for some reason Leningrad has unrest).

conmcb25 · April 28, 2003, 11:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Henrik
(becouse for some reason Leningrad has unrest).

Did you not read my dispatches Comrade? It is because we temporarily lost Soviet Pragmatism and then Comrade Pavlov recaptured it.

conmcb25 · April 28, 2003, 11:27

Latest status, front Commanders please remember to include this with your post!

Marshal part 1 (conmcb25) Done
Murmansk (STYOM): Not yet
Baltic (Henrik) Done
Northwest (The Anzac): Not yet
Belorussian (colwyn): Done
1st Ukranian (Shaka Nuldur): not yet
2nd Ukranian (Paul Hanson): not yet
Economic (greeny): not yet
Armaments (curtsibling): Done
Marshal part2 (conmcb25) Not yet

Note: This is not the exact order of play

OK who wants to be next?

Shaka Naldur · April 28, 2003, 13:38

I won't be able to play until wednesday,
Kiew still with 14 units

I'll have to start a poll about rushbuying a kv-1 there, I made some tests and the city holded one more turn thanks to the kv-1
once I take the file I will start the poll

hopefully I won´t have more problems until the winter comes

Henrik · April 28, 2003, 15:28

Quote:

Originally posted by conmcb25
Did you not read my dispatches Comrade? It is because we temporarily lost Soviet Pragmatism and then Comrade Pavlov recaptured it.

Could you add an entertainer when finnishing the turn in that case? As I am pretty sure the city will be lost once again (and thus the unrest will return).

conmcb25 · April 28, 2003, 16:37

Quote:

Originally posted by Henrik

Could you add an entertainer when finnishing the turn in that case? As I am pretty sure the city will be lost once again (and thus the unrest will return).

Consider it done Comrade!

To all the rest of the Front Commanders:

We lost Soviet Pragmatism last turn (When Minsk was captured that sent the following cities in Disorder

-Panic struck: Velikiye Luki, Daugavpils, Kolhm, Gomel, Smoelensk, Kharkov, Demyansk, Voroshiovgrad, Sevastapol, Leningrad and Stalino.

However Comrade Pavlov (Colwyn) recaptured Minsk this turn so all these cities maybe in disorder BUT the happiness of Soviet Pragmatism is back so the cities are back to normal happiness but will not clear disorder till next turn.

Now in all probabilty despite Comrade Pavlov's heroic efforts Minsk will fall again next turn. Therefore you should reset some of your population to entertainers unless you want disorder AGAIN next turn. (And you lose the production for a second turn in a row.)

Hopefully this is clear but all the above cities should have at least one and if its a larger city maybe more entertainers.

conmcb25 · April 28, 2003, 17:49

As you can see despite Comrade Pavlov's Heroic efforts Minsk will probably fall again next turn

This is AFTER Colwyn's turn when he recaptured Minsk:

The ANZAC · April 28, 2003, 18:37

Taking out file...

The ANZAC · April 28, 2003, 19:06

more units moved back. I need KV-1s built in Demyansk and Kalinin ASAP! Nothing spectacular otherwise

conmcb25 · April 29, 2003, 00:21

Latest status, front Commanders please remember to include this with your post!

Marshal part 1 (conmcb25) Done
Murmansk (STYOM): Not yet
Baltic (Henrik) Done
Northwest (The Anzac): Done
Belorussian (colwyn): Done
1st Ukranian (Shaka Nuldur): not yet
2nd Ukranian (Paul Hanson): not yet
Economic (greeny): not yet
Armaments (curtsibling): Done
Marshal part2 (conmcb25) Not yet

Note: This is not the exact order of play

OK who wants to be next?

WE are waiting for STYOM, Paul Hanson and Shaka said he would play on Wednesday. The turn has been moving very well, lets keep up the good work.

Paul Hanson · April 29, 2003, 14:55

Signing out the sav.

Paul Hanson · April 29, 2003, 15:03

I've got a few questions. When I get answers, I'll finish off my turn and post the file.

The howitzer and Katyusha near Stavropol; are they mine, or someone elses? If they're mine, can I move them to where I want? If not, forget about it.

Ditto the AA battery in Astrakhan.

conmcb25 · April 29, 2003, 15:14

Quote:

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
I've got a few questions. When I get answers, I'll finish off my turn and post the file.

The howitzer and Katyusha near Stavropol; are they mine, or someone elses? If they're mine, can I move them to where I want? If not, forget about it.

Ditto the AA battery in Astrakhan.

The howitzer and Katusha were reinforcements, you can use those for defense of your sector.

I would say the same about the AA in Astrakhan, but you better make sure you hold Rostov or else the Fasicist Pigs will be all over Caucus mountain region. If that happens you will probably be taking a vacation in:

Paul Hanson · April 29, 2003, 16:11

OK, thanks.

Paul Hanson · April 29, 2003, 16:18

Done.

The buildup in Perekop and Rostov continues. NKVD troops have arrived in Rostov to improve the morale of our forces there, while the Red Navy has shipped marines into Perekop, as well as deploying one of their mighty cruisers to provide the heavy firepower our forces will need to crush the fascists!

The deliberate looting and sabotage of state amenities continues in cities along the front. The fascists will find nothing of value in the cities they managed to prise from our grasp, making their gargantuan efforts worthless!

Paul Hanson · April 29, 2003, 16:19

Oops, almost forgot:

Marshal part 1 (conmcb25) Done
Murmansk (STYOM): Not yet
Baltic (Henrik) Done
Northwest (The Anzac): Done
Belorussian (colwyn): Done
1st Ukranian (Shaka Nuldur): not yet
2nd Ukranian (Paul Hanson): Done
Economic (greeny): not yet
Armaments (curtsibling): Done
Marshal part2 (conmcb25) Not yet

Six Thousand Year Old Man · April 29, 2003, 17:10

conmcb25, I got your PM. Please assign another general to the Murmansk sector - RL intervenes, and I have very slow access to Apolyton's new server

conmcb25 · April 29, 2003, 17:19

Quote:

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
conmcb25, I got your PM. Please assign another general to the Murmansk sector - RL intervenes, and I have very slow access to Apolyton's new server

Starting with this turn I assume?