Relentless Rocket Rampage Rover Russia
August 1941: Operation Red Winter
While Northern Army Group continued to probe German denders from Riga, two major battles happened which triggered Operation Red Winter.
The First battle was the battle of Jekpalis at the end of July. We were finially kicked out of the Southern portion of the River.
As our forces retreated across the river south of Riga, The Finnish attacked the northern most province of Kola, destroying our 3 divisions with no retreat.
For about a week after the retreat from Jekpalis, our forces skirmished the smaller German divisions across the border. By the 18th however The Northern Army Group and smaller one division armies headed north to Leningrad to await orders.
The Germans now had most land west of The Wall of Steel, and were even probing across the bridges of the river that connected the northern and southern Wall of Steel.
As the soviet forces retreated our Ground Defense Effency rose to .8, effectivly maxing our GDE. We were in full scale war now. Strategic rockets were also discovered, and research into Improved Decryption devices was under taken, with technology for a max nuclear reactor of 1 to be undertaken next. 5 series of V2 rockets were ordered.
By August 25 most of Northern Army Group's mechanized and motorized divisions were awaiting orders in Leningrad and so they were given the instructions for "Operation Red Winter". The Triple divisions would take Helsinki and move north along the coast while the single divisions would attempt to cut off the border defenders of Finland by moving more directly north. Despite rainy weather, forests, and over command max penalities, our forces simply overan the Finns. The Slower infantry divisions were still at least 10 days march from Leningrad, and would secure the back provinces. Once Finnland was occupied our forces would continue to take German terrtory all the way to the west coast, just above denmark, and await further instructions.
On an interesting side note the Probes of German lines just north of Kiev and South of Riga showed that the Germans were out of supply. I love smart AI who can't build enough supplies