'Odin' and Stalin's Secret Committee

[Macke11]

I agree with Bullfilter on that point, it would be easier to see what's happening and give suggestions out of that.

 

[roverS3]

The 5th of March 1937, 3am Moscow Time,

I've just returned from a grand Red Army party. The occasion is the total replacement of a all horses in the army by trucks, meaning our ten Cavalry Divisions are now all fast armoured Divisions with a combination of light Armour and Motorised 'Cavalry'. There was a demonstration of cavalry tactics, no longer of use to our army (for now anyway). Later there was a parade of 9. and 10. KP with their brand new trucks.

An army cavalry charge (demonstration), now a thing of the past in the 'modern' Soviet Union

Upon coming home, I discovered a short letter from 'Sem' ' leader of our internal industrial intelligence operation. He indicated that the truck-building state enterprises received an immediate order to continue producing trucks for another two brigades of Motorised troops, these should be ready by the end of June, fresh recruits will have been trained in their use on the battlefield by then.
​

The 5th of March 1937, 10am Moscow time, -0,8°C, Just outside of Vologda.

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 24th of February and the 5th of March 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:
Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 39 / 39.000

Total fighting troops: 462 / 1.314.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 514 / 1.340.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 51.750 needed / 98,301%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
In the last ten days 2xMot finished upgrading from Cav / 6.000​

Air Force:

VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 9 / 900
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 10 / 1.000​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 /500
Total VVS: 14 / 1.400​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve
No new planes in the last ten days.​

Navy:

Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 1 / 5

Destroyers: 4 / 20​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 7 / 23​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 11 / 27
Total Navy: 35 / 147​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve
No new ships in the last ten days​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 168
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need)
Upgrades: 3,41 / 119,94
Reinforcement: 6,84 / 130,44 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,02 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 75,24 / 75,24
Consumer Goods: 82,50 / 82,32
People started working harder as dissent gets close to 0 so available capacity+1​

Stockpiles:

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 41.364 tonnes +
Rares: 17.584 tonnes +
Crude: 20.923 barrels +
Supplies: 44.352 tonnes +
Fuel: 41.879 Barrels +
Money: 2.869 -​

​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Increase Threat / Counterespionnage): 10 / 1 / 1 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 18 / 0 / 1 / 5

Total: 48 / 1 / 2 / 5​

Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,18​

​

Research:

Civil Defence 1 was completed, work on improving Supply Transportation(2) has started.
Leadership:

Research: 19,89
Espionage: 0,18
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,572 =
Neutrality: 73,74 -
Dissent: 0,08 -
Manpower:

Available: 2.227.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 295.000 Men
To mobilize(need): 897.500 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

Party Popularity:

- Communist Party: 36 -
- Trotskyite: 16 +
- Bukharinite: 19 +

- Octobrist: 12 -
- Trudoviks: 4 -
- Social-Revolutionary: 1 -
- Kadets: 5 +

- Tsarists: 3 -
- NTS: 3 -​

Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 40,6 +
- Trotskyite: 17,7 -
- Bukharinite: 12,7 -

- Octobrist: 13,2 -
- Trudoviks: 9,8 -
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,4 =
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,4 -
- NTS: 0,0 =​

The Kadets are still gaining popularity without any significant organisation.

Somehow, thanks to a spectacular rise in popularity of the Trotskyite counter-revolutionaries, the ruling parties (Chief of the Airforce is part of this faction) have become dominant in popular opinion, the government is no longer 'fractured', there is no more serious opposition to Communism, only different views of what it should be are a threat now.
Domestic spies have been set upon a new mission, they will now work on catching even more foreign spies, and a little propaganda to further raise National Unity so the people can stand as one, undivided and confident.
​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 5th of March 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.

'Odin'​

 

[roverS3]

The 15th of March 1937, 10am Moscow time, -0,8°C, Just outside of Vologda.

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 6th and the 15th of March 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

No changes in the army for the last ten days
Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 39 / 39.000

Total fighting troops: 462 / 1.314.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 514 / 1.340.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 51.750 needed / 98,301%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve​

Air Force:

VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

No changes in the VVS for the last ten days
Interceptors: 9 / 900
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 10 / 1.000​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 /500
Total VVS: 14 / 1.400​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days

Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 1 / 5

Destroyers: 4 / 20​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 7 / 23​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 11 / 27
Total Navy: 35 / 147​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need)

Upgrades: 4,33 / 115,3
Reinforcement: 8,67 / 125,87 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,08 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 75,24 / 75,24
Consumer Goods: 83,75 / 83,59
Industrial Production 4, and Industrial Efficiency 4 research were completed​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 42.378 tonnes +
Rares: 17.847tonnes +
Crude: 21.321 barrels +
Supplies: 44.741 tonnes +
Fuel: 42.807 Barrels +
Money: 2.829 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Increase Threat / Counterespionnage): 10 / 2 / 2 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 17 / 0 / 1 / 4
Total: 47 / 2 / 3 / 4
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,2
Leadership spending on spy training was increased again after running out of reserve spies. Somehow the German spies catch more of ours than we catch theirs, even though our spies outnumber them five to one most of the time. This of course goes at the cost of research.​

Research:
Industrial Efficiency 4 was completed, work on improving Supply Production(2) has started. Industrial Production is also up to level 4, research in this area continues to reach Industrial Production 5

Leadership:

Research: 19,87
Espionage: 0,2
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,583 +
Neutrality: 73,51 -
Dissent: 0,06 -
Spies are propping up national Unity ever so slightly
Manpower:

Available: 2.232.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 289.700 Men
To mobilize(need): 891.800 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

No changes to Party Popularity in the last ten days
Party Organisation:
- Communist Party: 40,6 =
- Trotskyite: 17,7 =
- Bukharinite: 12,7 =

- Octobrist: 13,2 =
- Trudoviks: 9,8 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,4 =
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,43 +
- NTS: 0,0 =
Foreign spies have been helping these monarchists.​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 15th of March 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.

'Odin'

In the next ten days the army will take delivery of 8 AT Regiments, to reinforce existing SD's (Infantry Divisions) and also 1x L Arm -> Arm upgrade for 1 GvTD​

 

[Bullfilter]

Thanks - the highlights do help to make the stats more relatable from post to post

 

[roverS3]

The 17th of March 1937, near Kaluga

Eight new Support Regiments of very modern ZiS3E 76.2mm Anti-Tank guns (Historically these were introduced in 1942), have just been delivered to eight Rifle (Infantry) Divisions (184, 180, 183, 181, 182, 143, 121, 55 SD), part of VI, and VII SK of the 4ya Armiya, Second Army Group, STAVKA. Most commanders were happy to have any support as, just on the western front, 51 Rifle Divisions are still without any support. Some old school officers from the previous war mumbled that they preferred conventional big gun Artillery to these specialised weapons. The factories will continue producing these weapons in great numbers (an order for another 7 Regiments is next).

I am here in Kaluga to witness the first full fat Guards Tank Division, with now two Regiments of T18's and one Motorised Guards Rifle Regiment (2 GvTP just received a full complement of T18s). These T18's are an upgraded old design based on the T16 light tanks, which in turn were based on the Renault FT and Renault NC tanks captured during the civil war.

The T18, only 4.38 meters long about the size of a modern day midsize SUV, it isn't very large, nor very modern for a medium tank, but it's something and it does weigh about six tons. Research towards a more modern replacement, is in full swing.

The assembly lines will keep churning out T18s, for now, these are destined for 4 GvTP, of 2 GvTD, next, giving us a second 2xArm, Mot Division. The guards are already looking forward to delivery.

May the Red Army one day conquer the world,

'Dva'
​

Thanks to recent industrial efficiency breakthroughs, work on two new Industrial Complexes has started, without having to further limit the production of tanks and Anti-Tank weapons.

 

[roverS3]

The 25th of March 1937, 10am Moscow time, -0,6°C, Just outside of Vologda.

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 16th and the 25th of March 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 47 / 47.000

Total fighting troops: 472 / 1.322.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 514 / 1.348.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 52.550 needed / 96,805%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
In the last ten days 8 AT Regiments were deployed, and 2 GvTP was fully supplied with T18 medium tanks.
Production on another 7 AT Regiments, and on tanks for 4 GvTP has started.
Still no LS spending on officers, I might even wait till Three year draft to get the most officers out of my leadership before the Finnish winter war, and ultimately Barbarossa/The Great Patriotic War.​

Air Force:

VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500​

Total VVS: 15 / 1.500
Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve
In the last ten days 8. IAD was deployed, comprising of 100 Polikarpov I-16 Interceptor FIghters, it was added to Vorozheikin's III IAD.
Production has started on 24. IAD with 100 more of the same I-16's.​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 1 / 5

Destroyers: 4 / 20​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 7 / 23​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 11 / 27
Total Navy: 35 / 147​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need)
Upgrades: 3,00 / 114,91
Reinforcement: 6,00 / 125,70 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,11 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,40 / 79,40
Consumer Goods: 83,60 / 83,59
Extra IC from efficiency gains (IE 4, and armour and Artillery practical increases), and increased production capacity (IP 4) has been allocated to construct industrial complexes in Omsk and Blinkovo. Some IC was also reallocated from Upgrades and Reinforcements​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 43.195 tonnes +
Rares: 18.056 tonnes +
Crude: 21.704 barrels +
Supplies: 45.025 tonnes +
Fuel: 43.529 Barrels +
Money: 2.797 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Increase Threat / Counterespionnage): 8 / 0 / 2 / 1
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 16 / 0 / 1 / 4
Total: 44 / 0 / 3 / 5
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,4
Leadership spending on spy training was increased again after losing two more spies in Germany. We did catch one of the two German spy-killers. This of course goes at the cost of research.​

Research:

Four Engine Airframe was completed, work on improving Fighter Targeting Focus 1 has started. Operational Level Command Structure research has reached it's first results, research in this area continues to reach Operational Level Command Structure 2
Leadership:

Research: 19,67
Espionage: 0,4
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07
See Intelligence​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,592 +
Neutrality: 73,44 -
Dissent: 0,05 -
Manpower:

Available: 2.230.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 289.700 Men
To mobilize(need): 908.400 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

No changes to Party Popularity in the last ten days
Party Organisation:
- Communist Party: 40,6 =
- Trotskyite: 17,7 =
- Bukharinite: 12,7 =

- Octobrist: 13,2 =
- Trudoviks: 9,8 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,4 =

- Kadets: 0,0 =
- Tsarists: 3,4 -
- NTS: 0,0 =
Foreign spies who have been helping these monarchists. seem to have been caught​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 25th of March 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.

'Odin'

Tomorrow a Flotilla of Destroyers will be completed.

 

[roverS3]

The 4th of April 1937, Just outside Vologda, -0,04°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 26th of March and the 4th of April 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

No changes in Army numbers.
Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 47 / 47.000

Total fighting troops: 472 / 1.322.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 514 / 1.348.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 52.550 needed / 96,805%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve
8. Flotiliya Esmintsev was delivered to Kuznetsov's Red Banner Baltic Flote, this Flotilla is composed of 5 Gnevnyi-class Destroyers.
The Sevastopol dockyards immediately started production on another 5 Destroyers to form 3. Flotiliya Esmintsev, these will be of the, theoretically slightly better, Kiev-class. Designers claim these Destroyers will reach speed up to 30 knots, the committee is doubtful about this claim, but getting close to 30 knots would already be an improvement, not to mention the improved guns and Armour.​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need)

Upgrades: 3,04 / 115,04
Reinforcement: 6,10 / 115,03 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,11 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,26 / 79,26
Consumer Goods: 83,60 / 83,59​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 44.100 tonnes +
Rares: 18.287 tonnes +
Crude: 22.093 barrels +
Supplies: 45.176 tonnes +
Fuel: 44.357 Barrels +
Money: 2.760 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Increase Threat / Counterespionnage): 8 / 1 / 1 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 16 / 0 / 0 / 5
Total: 44 / 1 / 1 / 5
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,4
The amount of spies we have in Germany has temporarily stabilised with one spy caught and one replacement in place, for now fingers crossed, and no change in leadership for spies.​

Research:

Assault Concentration research has reached it's first results, research in this area continues to reach Assault Concentration 2.
Leadership:

Research: 19,67
Espionage: 0,4
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,602 +
Neutrality: 73,41 -
Dissent: 0,04 -
Manpower:

Available: 2.234.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 270.000 Men
To mobilize(need): 892.700 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)
No changes to Party Popularity in the last ten days
No changes to Party Organisation in the last ten days
​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 4th of April 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

 

[roverS3]

The 14th of April 1937, Just outside Vologda, -0,4°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 5th and the 14th of April 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

No changes in Army numbers.
Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:
Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 47 / 47.000
Total fighting troops: 472 / 1.322.000
Headquarters: 52 / 26.000
Total Army Personnel: 524 / 1.348.000
Officers: 50.871 / 52.550 needed / 96,805%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)
Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100
Single Engined: 11 / 1.100
Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400
Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500
Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve
​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)
Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15
Submarines: 23 / 115
Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10
Destroyers: 5 / 25
Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3
Escorts: 8 / 28
Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3
Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152
Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need) No changes

Upgrades: 3,04 / 116,78
Reinforcement: 6,10 / 120,82 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,11 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,26 / 79,26
Consumer Goods: 83,60 / 83,59​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 45.005 tonnes +
Rares: 18.517 tonnes +
Crude: 22.567 barrels +
Supplies: 45.213 tonnes +
Fuel: 45.155 Barrels +
Money: 2.722 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):
France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Counterespionnage): 7 / 0 / 1 / 1
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 15 / 0 / 1 / 6
Total: 42 / 0 / 2 / 7
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,5
The amount of spies we have in Germany has gone down again, not to mention there are now 6 spy hunters active there, the KGB has had to stop Increase threat assignments temporarily in favour of counterespionage, and nothing else. Even more LS has been allocated to spy training...​

Research:

A new design for Medium Tank Engines (1), the Mikulin M-17 is ready for mass production. The team started researching Light Artillery 3.
Leadership:

Research: 19,57
Espionage: 0,5
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

See intelligence​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,612 +
Neutrality: 73,41 =
Dissent: 0,03 -
See intelligence
Manpower:

Available: 2.236.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 277.500 Men
To mobilize(need): 884.200 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

Party Popularity:

- Communist Party: 32 -
- Trotskyite: 16 =
- Bukharinite: 20 +

- Octobrist: 14 +
- Trudoviks: 5 +
- Social-Revolutionary: 1 =
- Kadets: 4 -

- Tsarists: 1 -
- NTS: 7 +​

Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 40,61 =
- Trotskyite: 17,7 =
- Bukharinite: 12,7 =

- Octobrist: 13,2 =
- Trudoviks: 9,8 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,4 =
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,41 +
- NTS: 0,0 =
There seems to be some serious external meddling in USSR politics, the NTS Fascists are up by 6 percentage points with no organisation to speak of, and somehow the ruling Communist party pulled even further away from it's high organisation value.
Our government is again 'fractured' (NU -0,05 modifier), and domestic spies have started increasing the ruling party's organisation again...​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 14th of April 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

In the next ten days, a lone Regiment of ZiS-30 Tank Destroyers, will be deployed to a Motorised Infantry Division. So except for espionage, research, and volatile popularity, not much is happening right now.

 

[Bullfilter]

Lots of political meddling it seems. A suggestion for some of the stats (where the info would be worth it anyway) could be indicating a delta figure where there has been a change. Eg: NTS 7 (+6) or some such?

 

[roverS3]

The 24th of April 1937, Just outside Vologda, 2,3°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 15th and the 24th of April 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 48 / 48.000

Total fighting troops: 473 / 1.323.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 524 / 1.349.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 52.650 needed / 96,621%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
4. SAUP (TD Regiment) has been deployed to 163. Motostrelkovaya Diviziya (3xMot), production has started on another Regiment of ZiS-30 Tank Destroyers, the updated version with the Mikulin M-17 Engine has a higher speed (7 kph compared to the 6 kph of the previous version)​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1

Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3
Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:
Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need)

Upgrades: 2,86 / 116,91
Reinforcement: 5,77 / 121,71 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 2,99 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,78 / 79,78
Consumer Goods: 83,59 / 83,59​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 45.827 tonnes +
Rares: 18.748 tonnes +
Crude: 22.955 barrels +
Supplies: 45.418 tonnes +
Fuel: 45.925 Barrels +
Money: 2.690 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Counterespionnage): 7 / 1 / 1 / 1
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 1
Other: 15 / 0 / 0 / 7
Total: 42 / 1 / 1 / 9
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,5
The amount of spies we have in Germany has remained the same, while one German spy hunter was caught and not replaced. LS spending on spies will stay the same in the hope that it will suffice to drive down the amount of German spy hunters, and ultimately drive up the amount of spies deployed to Germany.​

Research:

No new research, no completed research, no changes in leadership allocation.
Leadership:

Research: 19,57
Espionage: 0,5
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,602 (-0,01)
Neutrality: 73,34 (-0,07)
Dissent: 0,02 -
Our domestic spies being busy increasing ruling party organisation, nothing is countering the 'fractured government' modifier.
Some other nation has been increasing Germany's threat with spies, to the benefit of our neutrality.
Manpower:

Available: 2.233.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 267.300 Men
To mobilize(need): 873.900 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

No changes in Party Popularity
Party Organisation:
- Communist Party: 41,03 (+0,42)
- Trotskyite: 17,7 =
- Bukharinite: 12,7 =

- Octobrist: 13,2 =
- Trudoviks: 9,8 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,4 =
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,43 (+0,02)
- NTS: 0,0 =
Some more covert action by foreign spies is helping the tsarists again, just as our own have been helping the Communist Party again.
​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 24th of April 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

 

[roverS3]

The 4th of May 1937, Just outside Vologda, 2,7°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 25th of April and the 4th of May 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

No changes in Army Numbers for the last ten days
Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 48 / 48.000

Total fighting troops: 473 / 1.323.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 524 / 1.349.000
Officers: 50.871 / 52.650 needed / 96,621%​

Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need)

Upgrades: 2,87 / 117,28
Reinforcement: 5,75 / 115,9 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 2,91 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,78 / 79,78
Consumer Goods: 83,59 / 83,59​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 46.638 tonnes +
Rares: 18.980 tonnes +
Crude: 23.343 barrels +
Supplies: 45.654 tonnes +
Fuel: 46.705 Barrels +
Money: 2.658 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Counterespionnage): 6 (-1) / 1 / 2 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 3
Other: 14 / 0 / 1 / 5
Total: 40 / 1 / 3 / 8
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
Our German counterespionage mission is slowly failing as Germany has clearly increased investment in spy-hunters and we can't raise ours very much without jeopardising our research. German counterespionage went from 5 to 8, they now outnumber our spies. Our spies in the UK, on the other hand are very successful at hunting their spies while still trying (unsuccessfully) to steal their technology.​

Research:

No new research, no completed research, no changes in leadership allocation.
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07
See intelligence​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,595 (-0,07)
Neutrality: 73,26 (-0,08)
Dissent: 0,01 -
Our domestic spies being busy increasing ruling party organisation, nothing was countering the 'fractured government' modifier.
The modifier now being gone, domestic spies started raising NU again.
Some other nation must be increasing threat somewhere as my neutrality went down with zero effort from our spies in Germany, too busy fighting off spy hunters.
Manpower:

Available: 2.232.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 257.400 Men
To mobilize(need): 864.800 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

Party Popularity:

- Communist Party: 33 (+1)
- Trotskyite: 20 (+4)
- Bukharinite: 16 (-4)

- Octobrist: 10 (-4)
- Trudoviks: 5 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 4 (+1,6)
- Kadets: 3 (-1)

- Tsarists: 5 (+4)
- NTS: 4 (-3)​

Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 41,32 (+0,29)
- Trotskyite: 17,6 -
- Bukharinite: 12,6 -

- Octobrist: 13,1 -
- Trudoviks: 9,7 -
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,3 (-0,03)
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,40 (-0,03)
- NTS: 0,0 =
Enemy covert political action has stopped and suddenly communist parties' popularity took off making the government not 'fractured' again. I'd like to think the timid investment of domestic spies shoring up ruling party popularity had a part in this, but is looks this is negligible.​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 4th of May 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

Now a small question, what does the committee think about heavy tank development, H Arm is pretty powerful, Germany will probably be using Tigers, it's expensive in IC and research, but is it worth it? Theoretically I think it's not really worth it, but I also saw several Arm, Mot, Eng, TD divisions getting destroyed by a single encircled German H Arm once playing as the UK. Another option is to research H Arm to research it's Armour to toughen TD's, without building the expensive beasts.​

 

[roverS3]

The 14th of May 1937, Just outside Vologda, 2,4°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 5th and the 14th of May 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

4. GvTP has been completely equipped with T18's, 8. GvTP is now being refitted with T18's from the same factories, but with the more powerful Mikulin M-17 engine. One regiment rejoins the army while another is on leave while it's new tanks are built, so:
No changes in Army numbers
Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 48 / 48.000

Total fighting troops: 473 / 1.323.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 524 / 1.349.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 52.650 needed / 96,621%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

The navy high command is furious as IC spending on the new Kiev-class destroyers is halved in favour of more factories.
No other changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Two new industrial complexes are being geared for production activities, one in Berezniki, and one in Nizhnaya Tura.
Construction has started on more factories in both places, and an additional complex in Uray.
Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 164 / 172
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need )

Upgrades: 2,86 / 116,54
Reinforcement: 5,53 / 112,64 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,16 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 80,01 / 82,24 (The navy pays for this discrepancy)
Consumer Goods: 83,59 / 83,59
See Navy and Army for additional changes to production​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 47.450 tonnes +
Rares: 19.212 tonnes +
Crude: 23.645 barrels +
Supplies: 45.814 tonnes +
Fuel: 47.474 Barrels +
Money: 2.627 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 1
Germany (Counterespionnage / Increase threat): 7 (+1) / 1 / 0 / 1
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 14 / 0 / 0 / 4
Total: 41 / 1 / 0 / 6
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
Somehow our spies in Germany have managed to evade the German spy hunters for a full ten days, they managed to catch one, and one newly trained spy has infiltrated into Germany, this new guy seems to have restarted a limited 'Increase threat' mission.
On a side note, the french have started (very poorly) training spy hunters again, and we caught the first one, the second one is still active. Our spies don't feel threatened, and mostly continue trying to steal plans.
​

Research:

No new research, no completed research, no changes in leadership allocation.
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,595 =
Neutrality: 73,21 (-0,05)
Dissent: 0,01 =
Domestic Ruling Party Support espionage mission, spies have started slightly raising NU again now.
See Intelligence
Manpower:

Available: 2.232.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 247.900 Men
To mobilize(need): 855.200 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)
No changes in Party Popularity​

Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 41,73 (+0,41)
- Trotskyite: 17,5 -
- Bukharinite: 12,5 -

- Octobrist: 13,0 -
- Trudoviks: 9,6 -
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,2
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,40 =
- NTS: 0,0 =​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 14th of May 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

Question on Intelligence: Spies have been sent on tech espionage missions in the UK and France since 1936 and still haven't managed to steal a single technology. This seems weird since SU is very backward in several areas France and the UK are good at, especially naval technology and doctrines. As an intelligence chief I would have thus sent my spies to dockyards and the like... It seems the game doesn't take holes in your research into account when calculating the tech stealing probability. Does anyone know how this probability IS calculated? Anyway both countries are close to empty of domestic spies, which bodes well for other nation's spy missions, it also costs close to nothing to maintain 10 active spies in both as very few get caught.​

 

[roverS3]

The 24th of May 1937, Just outside Vologda, 2,2°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 15th and the 24th of May 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

No changes in Army numbers
Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

Frontline troops: 425 / 1.275.000
Support troops: 48 / 48.000

Total fighting troops: 473 / 1.323.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 524 / 1.349.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 52.650 needed / 96,621%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No other changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 165 / 173
Half of the two recently built industrial complexes has started production, the added capacity has, for now, been allocated to Upgrades and Reinforcements, and some consumer goods of course.
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need )

Upgrades: 3,29 / 118,71
Reinforcement: 5,97 / 107,17 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,25 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 80,01 / 82,24 (The navy pays for this discrepancy)
Consumer Goods: 83,73 / 83,73​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 48.261 tonnes +
Rares: 19.443 tonnes +
Crude: 23.948 barrels +
Supplies: 45.717 tonnes +
Fuel: 47.950 Barrels +
Money: 2.596 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 1
Germany (Counterespionnage / Increase threat): 4 (-3) / 0 / 0 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 13 / 0 / 1 / 6

Total: 37 / 0 / 4 / 6​

Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
This week our German intelligence operations ran out of luck, as german counterespionage went from 8 to 10, and we lost 3 of our spies to these spy-hunters. Yan Berzin, in his former life a technical specialist in these matters suggested to stop sending spies to Germany one by one, as they will inevitably get slaughtered very quickly, instead he proposes to wait until an entire 10 man team is trained, in the goal of equaling the german numbers in a single deployment. The downside is that we will have to wait more than 100 days before this team is ready at current leadership spending.​

Research:

Measures to improve Medium Tank Reliability are ready for implementation in our T18 tanks and a new more reliable design for a Tank Destroyer is also ready for production, the SU-76.
Researchers have now started working on a design for Mechanical Computing Machines to increase the efficiency of our research.
No changes in leadership allocation.
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,595 =
Neutrality: 73,03 (-0,18)
Dissent: 0,01 =
My spies in Germany have put very little effort in raising threat the last ten days, so some other countries must be increasing German threat again (maybe that's what the Germans reacted to rapidly increasing the number of spy-hunters.) We profit happily from this small windfall, especially after the capture of almost half of our spies in Germany. (see Intelligence)
Manpower:

Available: 2.232.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 240.200 Men
To mobilize(need): 846.900 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

No changes in Party Popularity
Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 41,90 (+0,17)
- Trotskyite: 17,5 =
- Bukharinite: 12,5 =

- Octobrist: 13,0 =
- Trudoviks: 9,6 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,2 =
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,40 =
- NTS: 0,0 =
​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 24th of May 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

Further details about the SU-76:

The new Tank Destroyers are 50 cm longer than our current Medium Tanks (T18+), and 1,4m longer than it's predecessor the ZiS-30.

Looking up these figures I noticed that even our current (up to date) BT-5 light tanks are larger than our (slightly outdated) Medium Tank T-18 Tank Design.

The historical nickname for the SU-76 was 'Suka' (or 'Bitch'), this was because steering it was a bit of a 'Suka', the real one (a 1941 design) had one 4-cyl engine for each track, which explains the difficulty as one person would have to throttle both to steer.​

The in-game version has a (probably single) V12 Mikulin M-17 engine based on a license-built BMW airplane engine (is the 'Suka' nickname still relevant in game?), this means in our timeline this beast has a 450hp engine instead of two 85hp engines, so it should be significantly faster than the historical version, which already had a top speed of 45km/h...

Our current in game version does have a less powerful AT gun however 57mm instead of the historical 76.2mm gun. They will be up-gunned to 76.2mm once we research AT Barrel and SIghts 3.

Our Generals, if they knew, would be very happy to have 1941 level Tank Destroyers in 1937-1938, so theoretically we should have less trouble stopping the panzers than the actual early war Red Army.​

 

[roverS3]

The 3rd of June 1937, Just outside Vologda, 6,3°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 25th of May and the 3rd of June 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

34. and 37. SD (both Infx3, AT) have been deployed to Lt. General Gorbatov's VIII. SK, 4ya Armiya, 2nd Army Group, STAVKA. 8 / 20.000
Frontline troops: 431 / 1.293.000
Support troops: 50 / 50.000

Total fighting troops: 481 / 1.343.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 524 / 1.369.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 53.450 needed / 95,175%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
52., and 53. SD (Infx3, AT) have started training and production of their equipment has started.​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No other changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

No new laws, no new assignments.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 166 / 174
The other half of the two recently built industrial complexes has started production, the added capacity has, for now, been allocated to Upgrades and Reinforcements, and some consumer goods of course.
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need )

Upgrades: 3,80 / 117,71
Reinforcement: 6,86 / 106,35 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,49 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,31 / 81,53 (about 0,7 IC efficiency gain from increased Inf and Art Practical, see Army)
Consumer Goods: 84,04 / 84,04​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 49.016 tonnes +
Rares: 19.669 tonnes +
Crude: 24.077 barrels +
Supplies: 45.598 tonnes -
Fuel: 48.187 Barrels +
Money: 2.570 -
​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):
France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 1
Germany (Counterespionnage / Increase threat): 3 / 0 / 1 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 13 / 0 / 0 / 6
Total: 36 / 0 / 1 / 7
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
'German Intervention team' / Reserve: 1
The first member of our 'Germany Intervention team' has finished training and is waiting for colleagues to be trained.
Our spies eliminated the last french spy-hunter, so they now have free rain to (not) steal technology again.​

Research:

Schwerpunkt 1 research was completed and was followed up by research on Mobile Warfare 2
A new 37mm Medium Tank Gun design(Model 28) was finished and very slowly all T18 should be re-gunned with the new 37mm's.
Hindsight makes me wonder wether these 37mm's would even scratch a Tiger at point blank range...
The research team started work on a new Medium Tank Engine (2) right away.
No changes in leadership allocation.
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,595 =
Neutrality: 72,86 (-0,17)
Dissent: 0,01 =
Thanks again to those foreign heroes driving up German threat for me...
Manpower:

Available: 2.221.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 232.000 Men
To mobilize(need): 850.100 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

No changes in Party Popularity
Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 41,95 (+0,05)
- Trotskyite: 17,4 -
- Bukharinite: 12,4 -

- Octobrist: 12,9 -
- Trudoviks: 9,5 -
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,1 -
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,40 =
- NTS: 0,0 =​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 3rd of June 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'​

 

[roverS3]

The 12th of June 1937, the Kremlin, 4,2°C, 5am Moscow Time.

I was woken abruptly by a telephone call. 'Tri' was yelling at the other end of the line, it didn't matter as everyone in the background was yelling as well. He yelled: 'The Spanish worker's revolution has started, it's a full on civil war'. After a few minutes the situation became clearer. It seems the socialist party won the previous elections, some anarchists and communists saw this as a great reason to start fighting the wealthy and the church, and much of the population went into the streets to demand socialist reform. Nationalists in the army did not like this turn of events and started shooting at protesters, the official government then turned against a large part of the army and the civil war erupted in a matter of hours, with the country utterly divided, both geographically and politically.

The patchwork Spain has become...

After calling the committee about possibly sending troops or money, they answered that it would be a logistical nightmare to perform more than a token effort to help the Spanish revolutionaries.

This is what I communicated to Stalin and Mikhail Kalinin. The decision was made to announce to the world that we would intervene on the side of the republicans.(Spanish Civil War: Soviet Intervention), it was hoped that this would encourage the revolutionaries and deter intervention on the side of the Nationalists.

We were right on the first part, for the second part however, both German, and Italian Interventions were underway within hours. We will see what happens...

A few BT-5 tanks were sent over as a token gesture, but certainly not enough to make a difference, we have to think of our own armed forces, so the far away Spanish Civil War is just a good distraction for the capitalists of the world.

 

[roverS3]

The 13th of June 1937, Just outside Vologda, 6,3°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 4th and the 13th of June 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

7 Infx3 Divisions (27, 56, 85, 50, 6, 24, 17 SD) have been reinforced with an AT Regiment, all of STAVKA's Infantry Divisions now have AT support. 7 / 7000
IV. SK HQ has been reinforced with 2xInf, 1xTD. 3 / 7000
Frontline troops: 433 / 1.299.000
Support troops: 58 / 58.000

Total fighting troops: 491 / 1.357.000​

Headquarters: 52 / 26.000

Total Army Personnel: 543 / 1.383.000​

Officers: 50.871 / 54.450 needed / 93,427%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
Production has started on follow-up orders of 6 more AT Regiments, and another Infx2, TD unit to reinforce V. SK HQ.
​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics:

Spanish Civil War Intervention​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 166 / 174
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need )

Upgrades: 4,41 / 116,08
Reinforcement: 7,75 / 101,81 (Most divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,82 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 77,80 / 80,05
(about 1,5 IC efficiency gain from increased Inf, Art, and Armour Practical, see Army)
Consumer Goods: 84,04 / 84,04​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 49.016 tonnes +
Rares: 19.669 tonnes +
Crude: 24.077 barrels +
Supplies: 45.383 tonnes -
Fuel: 48.187 Barrels +
Money: 2.570 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Counterespionnage / Increase threat): 2 / 0 / 1 / 1
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 13 / 0 / 0 / 5

Total: 36 / 0 / 1 / 6​

Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
'German Intervention team' / Reserve: 2
Our 2 spies in Germany managed to take out one of 10 spy hunter, real heroes those two...​

Research:

No changes in leadership allocation, no new research, no completed research project.
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,595 =
Neutrality: 72,83 (-0,03)
Dissent: 0,00 -
I guess the foreign spies are also starting to hurt...
Manpower:

Available: 2.215.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 223.800 Men
To mobilize(need): 851.000 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

Party Popularity:

- Communist Party: 40 (+7)
- Trotskyite: 22 (+2)
- Bukharinite: 12 (-4)

- Octobrist: 7 (-3)
- Trudoviks: 4 (-1)
- Social-Revolutionary: 1 (-3)
- Kadets: 4 (+1)

- Tsarists: 9 (+4)
- NTS: 2 (-2)​

Finally, the investment of spies in Ruing party Organisation is really paying off...
Something weird is going on with the Tsarists, I suspect the Japanese, as they also have a Paternal Autocracy, but for now it's too small to really cause problems.
Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 42,21 (+0,26)
- Trotskyite: 17,4 =
- Bukharinite: 12,4 =

- Octobrist: 12,9 =
- Trudoviks: 9,5 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,1 =
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,40 =
- NTS: 0,0 =​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 13th of June 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

 

[roverS3]

The 23rd of June 1937, Just outside Vologda, 6,3°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 14th and the 23rd of June 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

8. GvTP has received the last of it's T-18's, making all three GvTD's Armx2, Mot. 1 / 3000
Frontline troops: 434 / 1.302.000
Support troops: 58 / 58.000
Total fighting troops: 492 / 1.360.000
Headquarters: 52 / 26.000
Total Army Personnel: 544 / 1.386.000
Officers: 50.871 / 54.550 needed / 93,256%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
Production has started on a regiment's worth of BDRM-1 Armoured Cars forming 8. BAP, in order to reinforce 7. KD (Cavalry Division), Maj. General Marchenkov will be delighted. 1 / 1000​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 15 / 1.500​

Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28​

Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1
Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

Politics / International:

Spanish Civil War Progress:

Republicans (Surrender Progress / NU): 21,5 / 99,9
Nationalists (Surrender Progress / NU): 0,0 / 99,9

The Republican lines look like Swiss cheese... this doesn't bode well.​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:
Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 166 / 174
Construction has started on a new Industrial Complex in Makhnevo. For those who like this sort of thing, I estimate, that at current cost, with current laws, this IC will pay for itself by the end of February 1941.
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need )

Upgrades: 4,39 / 136,84
Reinforcement: 5,88 / 91,81 (Many divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,95 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,70 / 81,96
Consumer Goods: 84,04 / 84,04​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 50.508 tonnes +
Rares: 20.110 tonnes +
Crude: 24.495 barrels +
Supplies: 45.221 tonnes -
Fuel: 49.163 Barrels +
Money: 2.518 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Germany (Counterespionnage / Increase threat): 0 / 0 / 2 / 0
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0
Other: 13 / 0 / 0 / 4
Total: 33 / 0 / 2 / 4
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
'German Intervention team' / Reserve: 3
Our 2 spies in Germany have now been captured, so much for their heroic stand...​

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Research:

Research of Arctic Warfare Equipment, and CAS Ground Crew Training 1 completed.
Research started on Infantry Anti-Tank Weapons 3, and Fighter Pilot Training 2
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,615 (+0,02)
Neutrality: 72,82 (-0,01)
Dissent: 0,00 =
With our domestic spies raising National Unity again, this isn't much of a surprise...
I guess this is how it's gonna be for a while now, this way it'll take a while to get to War Economy, well probably not until the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, it's not that far away anyway.
Manpower:

Available: 2.219.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 219.200 Men
To mobilize(need): 847.600 Men
Monthly gain: 28.600 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 12 days)​

No changes in Party Popularity.
Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 42,26 (+0,05)
- Trotskyite: 17,4 =
- Bukharinite: 12,4 =

- Octobrist: 12,9 =
- Trudoviks: 9,5 =
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,11 (+0,01)
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,41 (+0,01)
- NTS: 0,0 =
The meddling foreign spies are back...​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 23rd of June 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'

 

[Bullfilter]

You asked before about heavy tank development: I know it's expensive, but you may really want it later in the war. Good for cracking tough nuts on the offensive. Maybe not seriously yet, but you may want to do some preparatory research at some point. HARM + GDS + ART divisions? I bet you'd like a few of those in a couple of years.

 

[roverS3]

You asked before about heavy tank development: I know it's expensive, but you may really want it later in the war. Good for cracking tough nuts on the offensive. Maybe not seriously yet, but you may want to do some preparatory research at some point. HARM + GDS + ART divisions? I bet you'd like a few of those in a couple of years.

That makes sense, I might try to research the preliminary H Arm Brigade tech by the end of 1938, and maybe I'll upgrade just the armour for a couple of years to beef up my TD's (they don't need to be faster than Arm, so H Arm Armour will make them stronger without slowing down my Arm Regiments). Then, maybe present building H Arm as a reaction to the Apparition of Tigers. If they were to be built in the future I think it would ideally be in H Arm, 2xGds, Art/R Art, Eng Divisions.

What's your take on Art vs. R Art? I should make the decision pretty soon, especially if I were to use Art.

 

[roverS3]

The 3rd of July 1937, Just outside Vologda, 6,3°C, 10am Moscow Time

Report on the state of the soviet union for the ten day period between the 24th of June and the 3rd of July 1937,

by 'Odin'

Army:

Army numbers (Brigades/Personnel) Reserves included:

7. MSD has been deployed and, comprises of Motx2(for now), it has been added to Lt. General Kulik's XXVIII MSK, 2ya Tk. Armiya, Armoured Army Group, STAVKA. 2 / 6000
Frontline troops: 436 / 1.308.000
Support troops: 58 / 58.000
Total fighting troops: 494 / 1.366.000
Headquarters: 52 / 26.000
Total Army Personnel: 544 / 1.392.000
Officers: 50.871 / 54.750 needed / 92,915%
Active Leaders: 121 / 0 Reserve
Production has started on 15. MSD, also Motx2, for now.​

Air Force:

No changes in the Air Force for the last ten days
VVS Numbers (Wings/Planes)

Interceptors: 10 / 1000
Close Air Support: 1 / 100

Single Engined: 11 / 1.100​

Tactical Bomber: 4 / 400

Total Bombers: 5 / 500​

Total VVS: 15 / 1.500Active Leaders: 6 / 10 Reserve​

Navy:

No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Navy Numbers (Flotillas / Ships)

Transports: 1 / 5
AG-boat Class (I): 11 / 55
Series II Class(II): 9 / 45
Series V-bis Class(III): 3 / 15

Submarines: 23 / 115​

Norvik-Class (I) : 3 / 15
Gnevnyi-Class (II): 2 / 10

Destroyers: 5 / 25​

Light Cruisers / Profitern-Class (I): 3

Escorts: 8 / 28Heavy Cruiser / Krasnyi Kavkaz (I): 1​

Battleships / Gangut-Class (I): 3

Capitals: 4
Total combat ships: 12 / 32
Total Navy: 36 / 152​

Leaders: 12 / 4 Reserve​

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Politics / International:

Spanish Civil War Progress:

Republicans (Surrender Progress / NU): 21,5 / 99,9
Nationalists (Surrender Progress / NU): 0,0 / 99,9

The Republican lines still look like Swiss cheese, a few pockets have been relieved, but there is a large encirclement in the north that seems potentially disastrous...​

Industry:

Industry Numbers:

Working Industrial Capacity / Available capacity: 166 / 174
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC / Need )

Upgrades: 4,81 / 137,16
Reinforcement: 5,83 / 83,29 (Many divisions still have to reinforce following the 2 year draft policy)
Supplies: 0 / 3,95 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 79,50 / 81,75 (0,2 IC efficiency gain through Mobile Practical gain-> Upgrades & Reinforcements) See Army
Consumer Goods: 84,04 / 84,04​

Stockpiles

Energy: Maximum
Metal: 51.273 tonnes +
Rares: 20.332 tonnes +
Crude: 24.878 barrels +
Supplies: 45.367 tonnes +
Fuel: 49.907 Barrels +
Money: 2.492 -​

Intelligence:

Spy numbers, spies in (active / added / lost / caught by us):

France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 0

{ Germany (/): 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 }​

UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 / 0 / 2
Other: 13 / 0 / 0 / 1

Total: 33 / 0 / 0 / 4​

Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,57 (1 spy in about 10 days)
'German Intervention team' / Reserve: 4​

Research:

Research of Agriculture 4 has been completed
Research started on Advanced Construction Engineering
Leadership:

Research: 19,50
Espionage: 0,57
Diplomacy: 0,01
Officers: 0
Total: 20,07​

Statistics:

National Unity: 81,635 (+0,02)
Neutrality: 72,69 (-0,13)
Dissent: 0,00 =
And our analysis was wrong, the mysterious force increasing German threat is back, thank you foreign spies...
Manpower:

Available: 2.220.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 215.600 Men
To mobilize(need): 847.200 Men
Monthly gain: 30.800 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 11 (-1) days)
Improved Agriculture​

Party Popularity:

- Communist Party: 38 (-2)
- Trotskyite: 23 (+1)
- Bukharinite: 13 (+1)

- Octobrist: 8 (+1)
- Trudoviks: 3 (-1)
- Social-Revolutionary: 1 =
- Kadets: 3 (-1)

- Tsarists: 4 (-5)
- NTS: 2 =
- POA (Russian Liberation Army / National-Socialist, literally the Russian Nazi party) : 4 (+4)
The Tsarists, closer to Japan's Ideology have lost ground, while the POA close to German Ideology came out of nowhere, I sense a shift in illegal foreign influence...​

Party Organisation:

- Communist Party: 42,21 (-0,05)
- Trotskyite: 17,30 (-0,1)
- Bukharinite: 12,30 (-0,1)

- Octobrist: 12,80 (-0,1)
- Trudoviks: 9,40 (-0,1)
- Social-Revolutionary: 2,10 (-0,01)
- Kadets: 0,0 =

- Tsarists: 3,40 (-0,01)
- NTS: 0,0 =
- POA: 0,0 =​

The meddling foreigners have stopped targeting Party Organisation...​

This Information is accurate on the Morning of the 3rd of July 1937, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'​