rjh1971 DLC 1941

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:27 pm

Belgrade scenario:

Got a Decesive victory I think it was on turn 14 or 15. Difficulty level Colonel. I did play PG a lot but not Pz Corps yet so I wouldn't classify me as an expert or hard core player. Not a begginer either since I play many other wargames.
Nice scenario, I liked the fact that when the path seemed clear new yugoslavian forces appeared, specially those cavalry units near Belgrade. I did miss a Brucken pioneer unit. I got one antitank unit destroyed when it was loaded on its transport, dangerous to drive to deep in unexplored enemy territory.
There were air combats during most of the scenario but enemy aircraft are still no match for the LW

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:38 pm

Metaxas Line:

I bought the Brucken pioneer I missed in my core army and reinforced all my units with elite reinforces to their maximum level of experience. PP were down 550 from aproximately 2000.
My main line of advance is going to be through the left flank, north of Serrai and west of the lake I'm encountering my first problems to cross the rivers as the hexes behind are fortified and my units are vulnerable if they try to cross the river, hopefully the tank armour will help.

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:45 pm

Start of turn 2
The enemy decided to counter attack and launched airstrikes with 3 air units. Again my units on transports got hit, need better field data before moving them forward.
My tank unit got hit hard and was forced to retreat being left only with 5 points of strength.

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:06 pm

Counterattack fenced off, LW figther wiped 2/3 of the enemy aircraft. Werchmatch keeps pushing forward.

deducter · Post by **deducter** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:17 pm

Hey, what program do you use to draw these lines for your screenshots?

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:18 pm

Turn 3

Bulgarian infantry in Nikiforos was destroyed while defending the city, but it reamins in Axis hands. First tank counterattack we lost 6 strength point to five of the enemy. LW can't be called to support pz div and crush the enemy tanks due to bad weather, time to land and refuel, me109 were not upgraded and they have a low action range.
End of T3 situation:

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:29 pm

Turn 4

And infantry unit destroyed in an enemy counterattack

The AI is not doing so bad, I should be more careful.
Still trying to clear the fortified line north of Serrai at the end of the turn there still units pocketed.
Polikastro objective city taken.

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:45 pm

deducter wrote:Hey, what program do you use to draw these lines for your screenshots?

Paint.NET it's free: http://www.getpaint.net/

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:21 pm

Turn 7

So far I have lost two infantry units and a recon one in the scenario. I find AI challenging, true it's the first time I play this campaign but I don't find it bad at all, and I'm playing at Colonel level.
Here's the situation at the begining of the turn:

Don't know what's wrong with imageshack it doesn't allow me to log in.

Anybody knows of a similar page to imageshack?

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:36 pm

Imageshack really irritates me lately.
I switch to this website:

http://imgur.com/

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:59 pm

End of turn 8

German troops are entering Thessalonika. The Greek AA surrender due to no retreat path available. I hope the Brittish don'w show up on my right flank of the map in force or we could get into some serious problems.
If all goes according to plan objective could be taken in two or three more turns.
Airforce was landed to reload ammo and fuel since bad weather conditions did not allow to fly sorties.

Edit: wrong image

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:00 pm

Kerensky wrote:Imageshack really irritates me lately.
I switch to this website:

http://imgur.com/

Thanks I'll give it a look, I was using dropbox public folder meanwhile.

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:26 pm

End of turn 10: all objectives taken Decisive victory achieved.
Now on to Crete, I have saved both paths Crete airborne and Crete Naval, so I can go back and try them both.

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:28 pm

Kerensky wrote:Imageshack really irritates me lately.
I switch to this website:

http://imgur.com/

Many thanks I have registered and will place it in my favourites. I'll use it from now on. Last image loaded there.

OmegaMan1 · Post by **OmegaMan1** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:21 am

RJH, I love how you are including the map-style graphics with your AAR. Nice work!

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:20 am

I can't wait to see this nice AAR style for Streets of Moscow.

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:23 pm

Thanks for your support guys. If I had more time I would do screenshots more detailed and if I had better knowledge of programs like photoshop.

I wish I could get to Moscow streets...

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:32 pm

After Metaxas Line I had to decide wether to take Crete by airborne assault or an amphibious one. I decided to go airborne and now I might be regreting it.
Here's a screenie of the first turn:

The first turn wasn't so bad, but on the second turn my artillery units got hit real hard in fact I have lost my 15cm Hw, that and the fact that I'm very low on PP is my making my life miserable in this island

On the third turn I landed the rest of my units and that was somewhat a relief.
Enemy air units were shot down but the RN is pounding my units and decimating them, it has a fix for my arty

Here's the situation in the middle of turn 4:

I'm confident enough Souda will not be a problem, another matter would be taking Heraklion and its nearby airport

rjh1971 · Post by **rjh1971** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:08 pm

Well I achieved a DV but at a high cost, iirc another arty was lost and an infantry. Unless I use some extra PP cheating no way I can start Barbarossa with any chances of succeding.
So time to start the campaign all over again with version 2 of DLC3.

I noticed some other guys imported their core army from the 39 and 40 campaigns, I think that may give you some adavantage, but I just purchased the previous DLC just before given access to DLC 41, no time for them yet.