Slitherine

PeteMitchell_2 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:39 am

huckc wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:44 am
Turn 1 - Quadruple chained air bait, a personal record

Very nice gif animation, how do you do this?

TSPC37730 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:44 pm Interesting approach! Did you take any losses from AA fire? It's a long way to fly.

huckc wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:51 pm Storming Stalingrad





Extremely difficult, no surprise there. Suffered two brutal late-scenario restarts after losing a veteran core unit.

The SMG infantry littering the city is strong enough to attack many of my veteran infantry even without artillery support. There is also the problem of T34s swooping in out of nowhere to nail my tanks down to half health.

One thing to your advantage is the one spotting distance of the SMG infantry and conscripts which are vast majority of enemy infantry on the map. The enemy engineers guarding the victory hexes are also set to passive so they won't ever attack you.


The plan was bypassing the southwestern part of the city as well as the Gumrak suburbs with the goal of linking my entire force together in the center asap. Wanted to avoid getting bogged down in unnecessary places, losing valuable time and ammo while exposed at the flanks due to a split force.


Opening move


Turn 4 - Northern force arrived in the city and taken the first hex


Turn 6 - Southern force finally arrived in the center to link up with the northern force


Turn 7 - Forcing the partisans to surrender one by one. Two of my aircraft assisting.


Turn 10 - Taking the first victory hex in the city proper


Turn 12 - Counter-attack


Turn 16 - Second victory hex taken in the city. KV-1C captured.


Turn 16 - Making good progress in the northeast which triggered a counter-attack


Turn 18 - Approaching the final two victory hexes in the south


Turn 20 - Northeast victory hex finally taken after keeping the strongpoint alive for awhile in order to prevent enemy infantry from moving onto that hex


Final victory hexes captured in the south!


Turn 20 - Complete final picture of what was an epic scenario

Result
Decisive Victory turn 20 of 24
Prestige:

goose_2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:25 pm Your handling of Storming Stalingrad was amazing, I have watched it a couple of times now in preparation for my playthrough.

I will not be able to match it completely but the key aspects of avoiding Gumrak, except for the airfield, and avoid South non objective cities as you swing straight for the Center and work your way back down towards the main objectives and not triggering all of the enemy counter attacks is brilliant.

I am hoping to pull something like this off maybe over the weekend along with the New Years Day Holiday.

Still trying to plan out, as this and Stalingrad Ruins, and probably Tatsinskaya will be my greatest challenge in 1942.

huckc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:54 pm

One thing I might have done differently is vacating the airfields immediately, moving those Italian units to bolster my lines while also drawing the strong T-34s out to hit them instead of my own tanks. Hopefully the partisans continue their attack after capturing the airfields then re-capturing them with one of the aux units left behind.

goose_2 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:29 am Looks like this was a bigger struggle than perhaps you were counting on?

PeteMitchell_2 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:34 pm Wow, what are these Soviet troop gatherings around the victory objectives in the west, the AI just doesn't attack or what is going on there?! This is impressive!