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Your army's that aren't building past level 1 forts are probably assault army's. revoke the assault status and use assault army's to rebuild your weakest units they get priority supply.

Nice one, the breathing space and not being in contact all along the line might help your formations to gain a bit of combat power. Fingers crossed for more rain and mud.

This might be a good game but I refuse to get it simply because of the manual. I had War In The West and was shocked at the manual. 350 pages of meandering prose trying to describe the game system. Seriously the game isn't actually all that complicated. Boardgames of similar complexity can be explained in about 60 pages if they're written well. I looked at the manual for WITE 2 online and it was 500+ pages of the exact same style. Gary and his team really need to get his act together.

Just found this channel and this series is looking good!!👍🏻

7:10 Section 20.3.1 of the manual covers fort level limits. Basically you have to be within 20 hexes of a unit to go to Level 1 and (a) be adjacent to an enemy hex, (b) be in a port, (c) be in a fortified zone, (d) be in a city, urban, or heavy urban hex to go to Level 2. If you are going to want some level 2 or higher forts behind the front lines, you will need to plan on spending some admin points for fortified zones.

It appears from this that at the end of your turn, you're allowing Leningrad to be isolated. Can't understand why you would do such a thing.

THe fort level 1 limit for offensive front only applies to units from that front, you can still stack them with fort units or other units that dont have that restriction. so the offensive front units can get it to lvl 1 then other units take over.

Don't concern yourself with his fuel stores. They have no real material effect on his forces. Your losses to date about 2.6 million which is high, but not fatal. A lack of any fort building along the Neva is a typical newbie mistake. You should have established fortified zones along the Neva, assign sapper units and get those forts to Level 3. The river by itself can't protect Leningrad if the Axis player knows what they are doing. I saw at least one instance where you put a zero CV unit into your defensive lines, when they should be getting pulled back for refit.

Might be a good idea to put up air in the south. The germans are probably at the limit of their supply lines down there for air power.

I'll be watching along as long as you are posting. I really enjoy these vids. A quick question as I've never played the Sovs before: Wouldn't it be a good idea to start concentrating Tank divisions into Armies ready for when the ground freezes and you can start the winter offensive, and wouldn't the Cavalry divisions be useful in those armies as they are more mobile? Apologies if you are already thinking of it and haven't told us yet!

Glad to hear you're in it for the long haul

Looks like you are starting to solidify your lines now though, even if you are still being pushed back at least it is not as bad as before.

Well made! Enjoying this series so far

Nigjt pheonix had a 3 hex withdrawal gap from tje axis front line and it seemed to prevcent breakthrougjs and encirclements

This is a pbem, right?

You need to keep an army intact for a winter offensive, in the south your defending to steadfastly and losing to many men, you will miss those men for winter. Thankfully his opening like your other threat were sub optimal so he left you alot of free/extra russians a good german player will destroy in the first 2 turns of the game. You have no lost all the extra plus some to pocket after pocket....you need to steadily retreat and preserve your forces, and stop getting your men pocketed in pointless battles. Encircled units are completely destroyed and raised again as fresh units will low experience than take a month or two to get re-trained so will useless for the winter offensive by the time they are rebuilt and trained. Avoiding pockets is your main objective as the russian player after the auto pocket losses from the first couple turns....you can mistakenly lose a division here or there but cant afford to keep losing entire armies to pockets each turn---this will destroy your ability to do anything in the winter and allow german forces to finish you off before you can rebuld in 1942.

Keep at it, he might be running out of steam. Looking forward to the great winter charge from you!

2:41 Common mistake of newer players. You need to click on the box at the bottom Show Air Groups. That will cause another box to appear, No Fly Info which you also need to check. This will tell you if fighters are eligible to support your missions. From the image, you did not show any available and you need to see why, which is what that No Fly Info box will tell you.

I tried this once but it's one of the games where somebody would have to pay me to learn it😂

Bit of a setback this turn, but as you said, it's only turn 7 and it's another week closer to winter.

Nice work! Can`t wait to see turn 7.

Enjoying this, many thanks.

What game are you playing?

Flying Naval Patrols off Odessa seem a bit premature as Malyhin hasn't reached the city yet.

Goodluck sir 🙏

Great to see another campaign started, will be following. Cheers.

Night Pheonix´s retreat strategy of leaving a gap of 3 hexes between his and your front lines each turn helped avoid axis encirclements. Just in case that´s a threat.

Why are you conducting all these naval patrols basically in the middle of nowhere? Also, you need to assign the Long range Air Command some fighter units if you want their bombers to be escorted. Otherwise the un-escorted bombers get slaughtered when encountering enemy fighters. Once you get to turn 12, when fighter units drop to 20 aircraft each, more air units in the reserve should get replacement aircraft. Right now the size of the units is around 32, so fewer of them can get the limited number of replacements.

I'm enjoying these too. Please keep it up. I've just started another go as the Axis vs the AI so watching your game might keep my motivation up. Subbed.

Enjoying these, thanks. It's particularly easy to listen to the more it sounds spoken and the less it sounds read. Hearing your reflection, thought process, frustration/confusion is helpful and very relatable. Much appreciated.

It's good to see a series from the Soviet perspecttive. I think it's mmuch more rewardiing to guide the Red Army through the crisis periods and get revenge on the Wermacht. Good luck, and thanks.

Enjoying the series. Thanks.

2:10 I brought this same topic up in the Matrix forums today. Maybe we will see a response at some point.