Turn 2:
So in the north the Su did stop the attack like expected. I did not expect the river crossing of one infantry, but this damaged infantry was already lost. So I just moved it to this position to force Lifever to move a unit to kill.
The armoured train arrived but needs to resupply in turn 3 or 4, but this was calculated.
The major flaw was german aircraft in the north. While performing tests with rush to Moscow, I felt very uncomfortable with aircraft operation in the north, because the distance back to the airfield is really long and the may run out of fuel faster than germans are able to conquer the first allied airfield.
At this time it would have been a clever idea to purchase an AA in the north. But I closed my eyes and tried to get through without additional costs. You seldom have the chance to correct an initial strategic. So I had the chance and I did not. On the other hand it is important to stick to your strategy and do no flip around, this does mean you do not have a strategy.
If you are the defender and do have a small prestige income, spending the initial prestige is one of the major strategic decision you have to do. Another is to choose which units you want to sacrifice and which you want to safe and draw back. In this case my idea was to pull back both Su-5-2s and bring them to moscow defence once the defence starts to break. Some for the armoured train. All other units are tosacrifice to win as much time as possible.

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Lifever did support the north center with new units and break through the city defence and the river defence. There there are two Kradschützen units and a Wurfrahmen to support this part of the battlefield. It is important to realise what your opponent did purchase during turn 1, because you will get information about his strategy.

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Because of the hopeless situation I did move away my infantry from the river. Here a breakthrough in turn 2 was more than realistic and Lifever just failed because of the incompetence of the 42nd Kradschützen:

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