***Awarded Weekly AAR Showcase on August 22nd, 2009 ***
***Awarded WritAAR of the week on September 7th, 2009 ***
***Awarded Best Character Writer of the Week on November 2nd, 2009 ***
* Runner-Up Favourite HOI History Book AAR ACA 2009/QIII *
A Germany 1941 HOI2: DDA AAR with focus on the eastern front.
(Version used 1.3a + Arma 1.3 Beta 2 + GIP 0.8)
Scenario: 1941 (that is, no preparation of mine before June 22nd, 1941 possible!)
Style: Narrative/History book AAR with pics and maps.
Settings: Very Hard / Aggressive (changed to Hard / Aggressive from August 1st onward)
Gaming style: Use my predefined OOB with different army groups and armies somewhat realistically. To quote The Hyphenated1: 'There are no reloads, game edits or house rules aside from “roleplaying” as opposed to “power-gaming”.'
I will use my own OOB (see below) and nearly all units will start Barbarossa with reduced ORG (that is with 50%-70% maxOrg) due to reassignment of units and new leaders.
This is my first AAR so I hope you will like it
Please if you read anything in here just drop a comment and let me know (does not really matter if you have caught up or just read a single update - comments are very welcome ). I spend many hours writing this and your feedback is really important to me!
Also note: All pictures are under public domain or creative commons license as far as I know and are taken from the Bundesarchiv and Wikipedia if not stated otherwise.
Table of contents
June 1941
- OOB from North to South: June 22, 1941, 0000 hours
- Plans for the initial stage of Operation Barbarossa (w/ map)
- “Dawai! Dawai!” - The Russians make the first move
- Stukas!
- Lagebericht des OKW an Wolfsschanze, June 22nd, 1941 (other theatres)
- The Battle for Presov (1100 – 2000 hours, June 22nd, 1941)
- The Battle in the Gulf of Danzig (1500 hours on June 23rd, 1941)
- Breakthrough with the 11. Panzerdivision
- Where is the fifth PanzerKorps?
- A black day for the 4. Panzergruppe
- Rommel's men fight for the airfield
- Fighting against the Riga-Bridgehead
- The Kessel of Mazirbe
- Romanian trouble
- A lonely but brave russian tank corps (w/ map)
- The second battle for Stanislawow
- Von Rundstedt's nightmare (0600 hrs, June 27th, 1941)
- The Failure of Heeresgruppe Nord
- Defeat in Torun
- Thirteen bloody hours (1500 hours 27th of June)
- The saving of Romania
- The defence of Königsberg
- Fighting strength of Heeresgruppe Nord and 4. PG
- Map of the Ostfront a week into Barbarossa, June 29th, 1941 at 1300 hrs (w/ map)
July 1941
- The battles of Heeresgruppe Süd (29th of June until 5th of July)
- Storm over Lithuania
- The Battle of Slonim (5th of July, 1941)
- A Gathering in Berlin
- Lutsk (6th of July until 14th of July)
- Important developments on all fronts until the 14th of July
- Operation Phoenix
- Plans for Operation Phoenix (w/ map)
- Interlude - A quiet man
- A dark fate
- Day 1 (15th of July) -HG Nord- -HG Mitte- -HG Süd-
- In the rain
- Day 2 (16th of July) A General's orders
- Along the fronts
- The skies above Grodno
- Day 3 (17th of July) To trust - or not to trust
- The Kessel of Bialystok, part I
- The Romanian Front
- Day 4 (18th of July) The south
- The Kessel of Bialystok, part II
- Day 5-6 The Kessel of Bialystok, part III
- Progress after 7 days (w/ map)
- Down they come
- Back and forth (July 22nd, 1941)
- The second defeat of the 4. Panzergruppe
- The last breath of a dying Phoenix
- The Turku-Crisis (July 21st till July 24th)
- Deutsches Protektorat Finnland
- Von Reichenau's move (26th till 31st of July)
August 1941
- Moscow (August 1st, 1941)
- Drama in the south (1st till 8th of August, 1941)
- Lessons learned - The plan for "Thunderstrike" (w/ map)
- The heart of darkness (Berlin, the 10th of August, 1941)
- Weisung Nr. 20 „Operation Thunderstrike“
- Operation Thunderstrike
Featured units
- 1. Infantriedivision
- 31. Infantriedivision
- 32. Infantriedivision
- 56. Infantriedivision
- 71. Infantriedivision
- 126. Infantriedivision
- 294. Infantriedivision
- 1. Gebirgsdivision
- 8. Panzerdivision
- 9. Panzerdivision
- 10. Panzerdivision
- 11. Panzerdivision
- 16. Panzerdivision
- 4. Waffen-SS Division "Polizei"
Portraits
- II. PzKorps (Rommel) - 10. PzD, 18. PzD, 29. ID (mot), 2. Waffen-SS Div.
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