Turn 12:Ride the Lightning:Late June, 1921
Apparently, that Red Army was larger than I thought. I'll have to use a larger army to dislodge them from the last town on the Dneiper.
The current siutation in the center. Trotsky continues to sit menacingly at the border, whilst having nothing behind him. With the arrival of the XI Army, I should be able to make for a lightning assault on Vibetsk, forcing Trotsky into either retreating or attacking into trenches. Things will develop.
To the North, the attack on Pskov goes as expected. During the assault, I could see a large enemy army just north of Pskov. With that in play, it would be safer to hide behind the river. It's obvisous that I need reinforcement in this theater, but I won't get it for a while.
With the situation in Estonia unchanged, the rest of Army Gruppe B falls back on Riga, whilst the Armee Gruppe B actual holds the crossing.
Budyenny once more falls afoul of Army Gruppe Sd. Now that his army is utterly destroyed, I get his wagons and his aircraft that he was hauling around. The situation thus:
Yippy, destroyed two armies, and oh...wait. With yet another army appearing literally out of thin air (or chilling out somewhere for the last couple of turns), the opportunity to destroy two more armies presents itself. Through inaction, Matsiletsky willingness to sun himself in the fields of Central Russia has led him to be cutoff from supply. The two nearest places where he could conceivably get this supply are both defended by corp sized components. We'll see how the situation develops there. In the east, Armee Gruppe Sd will both secure the railway from Kharkov to Voronezh, capture Voronezh, and cut rail service from Moscow to Tzaritsyn. Things will soon get a lot harder for the Red army in the Kuban. In the west, the Don Front has dug itself a fortress in it's little hole, but with Armee Gruppe Ungarn recovering, and Von Below's moving on him from the north, he'll either be forced to battle or starve.
This battle means the end of the Red control of the Dnieper. In and of itself, it doesn't mean much other than a continued supply network and easy transfer of units, but it also means the end of Red control in the Ukraine, towards that end, the beginnings of the Rostov Campaign:
The Reds control two of the three crossings of the Don. With a definitve capture of Lugansk and Donetsk, I can attack Rostov over a river, and force my enemy to retreat in a disorganized mess into the Kuban, which is currently a mess of fairly large Green armies and White stacks. With the capture of Rostov, I can also bring the Transcaucus into the war, completely NM loss free (and Turkey possibly, since the Reds outright rejected my ultimatum. )
Decisions this turn:
Manpower is now working (yay!), so I mobilize to bring in some much-needed fresh meat. I also run a propaganda campaign, as the constant defeats make my poor civvies all revolutionary.
Apparently, that Red Army was larger than I thought. I'll have to use a larger army to dislodge them from the last town on the Dneiper.
The current siutation in the center. Trotsky continues to sit menacingly at the border, whilst having nothing behind him. With the arrival of the XI Army, I should be able to make for a lightning assault on Vibetsk, forcing Trotsky into either retreating or attacking into trenches. Things will develop.
To the North, the attack on Pskov goes as expected. During the assault, I could see a large enemy army just north of Pskov. With that in play, it would be safer to hide behind the river. It's obvisous that I need reinforcement in this theater, but I won't get it for a while.
With the situation in Estonia unchanged, the rest of Army Gruppe B falls back on Riga, whilst the Armee Gruppe B actual holds the crossing.
Budyenny once more falls afoul of Army Gruppe Sd. Now that his army is utterly destroyed, I get his wagons and his aircraft that he was hauling around. The situation thus:
Yippy, destroyed two armies, and oh...wait. With yet another army appearing literally out of thin air (or chilling out somewhere for the last couple of turns), the opportunity to destroy two more armies presents itself. Through inaction, Matsiletsky willingness to sun himself in the fields of Central Russia has led him to be cutoff from supply. The two nearest places where he could conceivably get this supply are both defended by corp sized components. We'll see how the situation develops there. In the east, Armee Gruppe Sd will both secure the railway from Kharkov to Voronezh, capture Voronezh, and cut rail service from Moscow to Tzaritsyn. Things will soon get a lot harder for the Red army in the Kuban. In the west, the Don Front has dug itself a fortress in it's little hole, but with Armee Gruppe Ungarn recovering, and Von Below's moving on him from the north, he'll either be forced to battle or starve.
This battle means the end of the Red control of the Dnieper. In and of itself, it doesn't mean much other than a continued supply network and easy transfer of units, but it also means the end of Red control in the Ukraine, towards that end, the beginnings of the Rostov Campaign:
The Reds control two of the three crossings of the Don. With a definitve capture of Lugansk and Donetsk, I can attack Rostov over a river, and force my enemy to retreat in a disorganized mess into the Kuban, which is currently a mess of fairly large Green armies and White stacks. With the capture of Rostov, I can also bring the Transcaucus into the war, completely NM loss free (and Turkey possibly, since the Reds outright rejected my ultimatum. )
Decisions this turn:
Manpower is now working (yay!), so I mobilize to bring in some much-needed fresh meat. I also run a propaganda campaign, as the constant defeats make my poor civvies all revolutionary.
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