Russia Besieged - Winter is coming ( sorry )

The weather roll for September to October 41 is often crucial. If the good weather continues, the Russian can disappear. Fortunately for me, PionPion gets a 10, so clear then mud ( the historical meteo ). He still takes the opportunity to take Kiev and surround Dnepropetrovsk. He started cleaning the woods in front of Moscow.
In my turn, I anticipate the arrival of winter by massing troops in Leningrad. The German horde is slowly approaching Moscow but the city is difficult to take. Confident in its invincibility, the Hun left a pile exposed in front of Leningrad. I take this opportunity to make them check that they can die too. End of german arrogance. An attempt to disengage Dnepropetrovsk failed miserably, inflicting casualties on the garrison. The city is doomed. 

We are now in November-December. The weather becomes beautiful again with a slight mud. My partner is taking advantage of this outright luck, storming Kharkov and Kalinin. Only the valiant defenders of Leningrad manage to repel an assault, even inflicting casualties on the german tanks. The Soviet line is becoming thinner.
I just back down, without attempting a counterattack. I must keep forces for the coming winter.



Finally the new year 1942. The Oural industry is starting to produce at full speed . Pionpion, emboldened by an autumn rich in conquests, decided to stay in the plain and managed to take Kursk, the key to the board’s center. The Germans have serious maluses during the first winter but their manhood cannot be questioned!

Not believing such arrogance, I launch my siberian hordes. In front of Leningrad, the troops were ready. Two paratroops corps drop in the snow and give me the Zocs needed to encircle the troops left on the guard flank. The result is significant: four infantry and one armored corps are destroyed.
In the woods in front of Moscow, it is the Soviet cavalry that destroys the panzers. Forbidden from retreat by the forest, they are attacked twice and another armored corps disappeared.
On the side of Sevastopol, won by my enthusiasm, I cheat by giving my troops full movement capacity when it has to be divided by two. I then inflict some losses. My partner sees cheating, but, like a prince, decides not to go back. 




The weather remains bad in March. The German army, trashed in previous battles, carefully retreated to the warm cities. Parachutists are destroyed and Moscow's outskirts abandoned.
In the face of such a lack of combativeness, the Russian is content to rebuild its strength. The arrival of spring means the return of aviation and the war of movement, all things harmful to a self-respecting Russian. 




Summer will be hot!


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