PG3 - Let's take all their potato!

[spectre]

Next mission. Enroute to Stalin's city!

This'll be interesting. A Search&Destroy mission. We also have to secure a nuber of objectives. Let's look at the map.

Yep. No way around it, we'll have to split again.
There's lots of open terrain to cover. Good thing our scouting team is capable.

The objectives are also placed pretty nicely. The route is obcious, we circle the map, searching for the units to kill, then we converge at the final objectives.

No new recruits this time. But we get new toys to play

Hellraiser and Garf's rides are all pimpin'

But nothing beats the pimpiness of the leopard-skin Messershmidt

Time to roll. No new faces today.
Time limit for major is very generous at 12 turns. I'd say this actually means trouble.

Scouts, give me intel.

Repoting minor resistance near the airfield.

Same here. Seems quiet.

We split our forces.
Kampfgruppe Nord is: Anus, Garf, HooDoo, assisted by Nex.
Kampfgruppe Sud is: Carius, Derper, Hellraiser, Serrated, Psyhic, Cassidy and Garfunkel.

Yeah, uneven. The reasoning was that KpfgNord will get more luftwaffe assistance, hence the AA goes with the others.
Will probably bite us in the ass soon-ish.

Luftwaffe moving in for the kill

And how exactly did the scouts managed to miss that?

Proceeding with bombardment. Taget destroyed.

Enemy turn. We see heavy movement. Scouts and aircraft swarming over us.

The airplane is quickly dispatched, although it takes a combined effort.

That Fokker went a bit too far. Should I retreat to town?

Negative. Luftwaffe will mop up.

Target destroyed.

Kampfrruppe Nord proceeds in taking the airfield.

Kampfgruppe Sud also proceeds as planned.

Ok, where did that came from?

Bitch is beelining for the objective.

That'll teach you.

Kommand, I see the objective.

Elite guard Infantry. That's what we're here to kill.

But where's the rest?

The airstrip near the secondary objective was taken. Moments after the shot up Yak attempted to take cover.

Fallshirmjaeger move in. they'll assist in taking the objective then move to the airfield to proviude support to Kampfgruppe Nord.

They're not offering much resistance.

So much for the better. We take the city and are on our way.

Oh well, shitty score bonus this time.

Kampfgruppe Nord did some fighting near the airfield, but otherwise no serious contact with the enemy.

It also seems that recent events have really toughened up HooDoo.

Kampfgruppe Sud met with the main enemy foce. Infantry plus Tanks. they'll need the Luftaffe support for now, until we clean up.

Luftwaffe proceed to strike the main target/.

Copy that, Ziel in sight stukas!

Not this again. They're going straight to the town.

The Luftwaffe is all tied up. I am withdrawing to secure the entry point.

In the meantime, Hellraiser and Derper assisted by Luftwaffe reduce the T34s to scrap metal.

That was quick.

Good work. Now we only need to find the other four.

 

[spectre]

Without air support, Kampfgruppe Nord take their sweet time with the objective.

We'll be needing some support here soon.

Krap, I think I found our target.

Kill that scout and withdraw.

Better hope there isn't more of them hiding.

Hold formation,dammit.

No way, we need to neuter that arty up north.

If it stays at full strength, we'll be dead meat.

Hidden Movement.

Ohsit. Gott dammit!

What the fuck did I tell you!

This is funking it. Were done.

Fuhrer protects. We're still alive.

Kampfgruppe Nord, damage report!
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Still there. Barely. Some air support would be nice.

Vaterland will not let you down Kameraden. Lick your wounds while the stukas relieve you.

Here kitty kitty...

Your arsch ist mein!

Indeed it is. But the ruskie recon narrowly escapes death.

We can't let it go away. Luftwaffe, assist.

No gddamn way we do it.

I've some rounds left. Let me.

It's done.

Close call that one was.

Droppping in. We will assist Kampfgruppe Nord.

Bout time.

Scouting enemy positions. It seems they're fleeing south.

Indeed they do. Meanwhile, AKmpfgruppe Sud moves to take the second objective.

Kommand, we're clear to assault.

Proceed. I want it taken swiftly, don't let it slow you down.

Stupid ruskie, he's going straight at my gun

That hurt.

Allow me to cleanse the gene-pool of this fool.

All in a days work.

Objective is swiftly taken, as planned. Carius becomes even more awesome.

Meanwhile, up north, the Kampfgruppe struggles with the objective.

Target killed. Only two more to go.

And Kampfgruppe Sud cautiously approaches the objective.

Scouting. Damn, they're dug in.

Movement ahead. Keep your guard up, this is a flanking attempt, clear as day.

Heavy armor. They rolled past us.

We proceed to wipe them out.

The T34 comes down fast like a 10 Mark whore

Watch out, there's a KV1C out there as well.

IT takes a while, and lots of artillery shells to spften it up, but it's finally put down.

Sitrep time.
Kampfgruppe Sud had some difficulties enroute, but is now proceeding towards the planned objective.
Kampfgruppe Nord is in deperate need o reinforcements. Currently, it braces itself to meet the counteroffensive.

 

[spectre]

Enroute to the objective, Kapfgruppe Sud meets with a small couterattack.

It is swiftly dispatched.

Unfortunately, a lone recon unit somehow managed to get past us and is stealing our land.

In a seriously derpy idea, I send Carius to take it back... then realize it doesn't really matter.

Kampfgruppe Sud positions itself for the siege.

Ready to go. I've also found our missing friends.

Where to begin... that blastes katyusha is out there nearby probably.

How about a good trashing for that aircraft?

The enemy attempts to flank us again. Or are they just running into the desert?
We had a golden opportunity to nail then in the swamps.
Unfortunatly, the lutwaffe was done for the turn.

Proceeding to strike target.

Assisting. We cannot risk them at our rear.

We dig in, waiting for you to mop up, Luftwaffe.

Meanwhile, Kampfgruppe Sud has found the Katyusha.

Mutter Fikker,that hurt a bit.

The siege doesn't go to well for Kapfgruppe Sud. No air support and only one damaged artillery mean
stuff takes much longer thani t should.

They attept to reposition... and Gondolin manages to ambush the guardsmen in the process. The AI
seems to have one of them WTF moments again.

Meanwhile, Kampfrugppe Nord prepares for an assault.

Hmm. Multiple artillery and AAs. We need some serious bombing here.

Eklektyk obliges.

Meanwhile, I just noticed that JaKo got a commendation while killing stragglers.

Holy...
Aight, he's now officially awesome.

The AAs are down, so we test his newfound power.

I am become death!

Azira drops in to join the fun. And immediately begins to clean up the house.

At the end of turn, the situation looks like this. Last turn for major vitory, our assault is going good.


Enemy turn, the KV closes in, threatening our artillery.

Mwanwhile down south, Derper and Hellraiser finally manage to chase off the AAs and get to the artillery.

Like fox in the henhouse.

JaKo rains death on the offending KV.

It falls quickly.

Eklektyk brings the house down on city defenders.

And the objective is taken. Gee, we totally need it right now.

Meanwhile, Derper laughters the artillery. Including the katyusha which was part of the objective.

Who is awesome, guess who, guess who.

And Cassidy quickly takes the city. We get a nice artillery leader for our efforts.

Victory is sweet. Our kill count remains impressive, and we got moar potato this time.

Debriefing
Ok, I confess, I fuked up this one a bit. The northern group could have used an extra tank.
Would have made a hell of a difference. Although, in my defence, there were more objectives down south,
so I expected timid resistance up north.

The turn limit was generous, and yet I almost made the Major victory. Also, the theory seems to be confirmed, finishing the scenario early gives a bit more points, although I'm not sure how much was the "good press" bonus, so in the end, the difference could have been minimal, like 200 points or so.

Our bombers are now officially awesome. Overall, it shapes up nicely.
I have open slots and I am out of recruits atm, so please enlist, or I will reincarnate our fallen under a different name.
We have enough Tank leader by now, btw, and we could use an extra Artillerist or two asap.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

You can reincarnate me as "Perse-Arska" if no one volunteers. But I'm still waiting for StuGs...

 

[Johnny the Mule]

Pushing dem updates, eh. Sweet.

Overrun is such a sweet perk. Arty gets also massive suppression values with veteran orders.

 

[JoKa]

i hoped from the second you posted which commendation you never saw on a bomber and wanted it badly that i would get it. thanks for the Oppenheimer-citation, it looked like it was deserved

 

[spectre]

Overrun is such a sweet perk. Arty gets also massive suppression values with veteran orders.

Yep. Overrun with Blitz makes really makes mopping up easy. I also think that Carius just got wedge attack. Anyways, I'll be doing some levelling in the next updates, and I'm planning to show some of the high level veteran orders, with effects if possible.

thanks for the Oppenheimer-citation, it looked like it was deserved

Yep it's uber. To the point of being unbalancing in fact, but, you should see that in the coming updates.

By the way, we need volunteers for arty and the AT. If noone volunteers, I'll reincarnate Merkwurdigliebe and Vaarne in these roles (don't worry I'll get you that bloody StuG eventually :-P)

We're halfway through with the game, btw, so I am cautiously optimistic about pulling this through.

Unfortunately, it's PGIII's big flaw that once we get us some good equipment and the majority of the officers become level 6+ a lot of the game becomes rinse/lather/repeat, that's why I am not bothering anymore to note that the artillery is preemptively shelling everything that comes in its ine of sight and that our tanks quickly mop up thanks to blitz+overrun.

 

[Circuitbreaker]

By the way, we need volunteers for arty and the AT. If noone volunteers, I'll reincarnate Merkwurdigliebe and Vaarne in these roles (don't worry I'll get you that bloody StuG eventually :-P)

Is there any decent mobile artillery available by now, like the Wespe ? Otherwise draft me for AT duty. A Marder would be fine. Would like the much underrated Nashorn in the future though.

 

[drexciya]

By the way, we need volunteers for arty and the AT. If noone volunteers, I'll reincarnate Merkwurdigliebe and Vaarne in these roles (don't worry I'll get you that bloody StuG eventually :-P)

Is there any decent mobile artillery available by now, like the Wespe ? Otherwise draft me for AT duty. A Marder would be fine. Would like the much underrated Nashorn in the future though.

The Stug with the 105mm howitzer would be a nice alternative I guess for mobile artillery. And given the time frame of the scenario, the StugIIIF/8 should be available around this time. I think they were available right about the time the Marder series pops up.

I cannot find a file with units and the date they appear in the game, so I'm guessing a bit. Is the Nebelwerfer any good as an artillery piece?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Can I volunteer? Despite being already dead, I mean.

If I can, then artillery plz.

 

[spectre]

Sorry for the lack of action, since volunteers are had to come by, I will start reincarnating the fallen as our official policy hereinafter.

Can I volunteer? Despite being already dead, I mean.

NP. Just give me a name.

Is there any decent mobile artillery available by now, like the Wespe ? Otherwise draft me for AT duty. A Marder would be fine. Would like the much underrated Nashorn in the future though.

Thanks. Unfortunately, no decente mobil arty yet, should be around in two or three missions, we can get lucky with random bonuses as well.

The Stug with the 105mm howitzer would be a nice alternative I guess for mobile artillery. And given the time frame of the scenario, the StugIIIF/8 should be available around this time. I think they were available right about the time the Marder series pops up.

Yep. We have a proper StuG right now, Vaarne called dibs, so I guess I'll have to oblige him (-:
Thing is, using AT class that was is a poor man's substitute - the AT causes no supression, and the range stays at 2, which means we cannot one-shot disable weak AAs to clear the way for bombers. It's good for making a few addiitonal potshots at the distance, that's about it. It also doesn't have reaction fire until the leader is level 10. Of course, it's a different story if they put a StuG variant in the artillery class, which i possible, but I don't have the unit table on me as well.

Is the Nebelwerfer any good as an artillery piece?

We've been having a neblwerfer, thing is, stat wise it's inferior to the howitzers we use right now - on par with soft target damage, but noticeably lower AP capability. I may use it for a mission or two for shits and giggles, though. Why not.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Can I volunteer? Despite being already dead, I mean.

NP. Just give me a name.

Hmm, since Bee is dead, let it be "Newbee".

 

[anus_pounder]

Hope this isn't dead. : x

 

[eklektyk]

yay! back on track to stomp red scum!

 

[drexciya]

The Stug with the 105mm howitzer would be a nice alternative I guess for mobile artillery. And given the time frame of the scenario, the StugIIIF/8 should be available around this time. I think they were available right about the time the Marder series pops up.

Yep. We have a proper StuG right now, Vaarne called dibs, so I guess I'll have to oblige him (-:
Thing is, using AT class that was is a poor man's substitute - the AT causes no supression, and the range stays at 2, which means we cannot one-shot disable weak AAs to clear the way for bombers. It's good for making a few addiitonal potshots at the distance, that's about it. It also doesn't have reaction fire until the leader is level 10. Of course, it's a different story if they put a StuG variant in the artillery class, which i possible, but I don't have the unit table on me as well.

I'm probably thinking of Steel Panthers, where the StuH42 (that's the proper name of the StuG with the 105 mm howitzer) was seen as an artillery piece. Although it will have a shorter range than the regular 105mm, it is much tougher.

I'm checking the PG2 manual right now, and the StuH42 comes up in 10/42 as an AT piece; it's really arty, too bad you cannot change this easily. It has 15 Soft Attack (compared to 11 for the StuG IIIF - 4/42), which is quite neat, I'm not sure how that would work in the actual game. In PG1 it's listed as artillery however, strange.

The Nashorn comes up quite early in 43, which rather surprised me.

 

[spectre]

I'm probably thinking of Steel Panthers, where the StuH42 (that's the proper name of the StuG with the 105 mm howitzer) was seen as an artillery piece. Although it will have a shorter range than the regular 105mm, it is much tougher.

There actually IS a StuH42 is PG3, listed as artillery. Sadly, it's on par with the rest of the self-propelled artillery pieces, range 2, pitiful ammo. Attack stats are ok though.

Shame that you cannot easily flip some of the units, say, the 88 into AA and AT mode.
It's possible to a degree with some veteran orders, but it's an Ersatz - for AAs you can fire one shot only, and ATs need the leader to be level 10 for defensive fire.

Awright, enough of the idle chatter.

Stalingrad: The Prelude
New mission awaits us.

Before we actually go and bring us some Vasilij Zaytzev head onna stick, we have some mopping up to do along the way.

Specifically, three towns need to be taken.
The Fuhrer is stingy with medals, but we do not fight communists for petty distinctions.
Unsere Ehre heisst Treue!

Having air superiority would be cool indeed, but at this stage of the war, it is won with blood.

First let's review the recruits.

Second incarnation of Vaarne. De to a brian fart, I didn't change your name, but you have the MAJESTIC StuG now, so
and hope that you me now.

Then, we reincarnate Merkwirdigliebe as Merk.
I'll give im the Nebelwerfer for shits and giggles.
As you can see, it's super effective vs infantry, but has pitiful ammo and the range is lesser than the Haubitze.
We'll give it a spin nonetheless.

Finally, for the ardous task of driving the comandeered commie scheisspanzer Hellraiser gets a new toy.

See, I am a man of my word. Look at the armor on that one.

A'ight. Let's review the map.

Zee operation looks fairly straightforward. First major objective is relatively close, but taking the other two requires splitting the Kampfgruppe.

Since we will have to do it anyway, we will divide into three parts.

A smaller task force will take the western approach, taking the secondary. They will move quickly to the Western major objective and wait for air support.

The main battlegroup will take the central route.

AT with recon support will take the Eastern path, probing the route to the easternmost secondary, and flanking the primary objective if necessary.

We begin.

10 turns for major victory, it is unlikely that we'll take the eastern secondary, at best we'll take the western one,
possibly the central one as well, but that'll depend on how the situation develops.

The forces are divided as follows:
Kampfgruppe West is Anus, Carius and Derper, with Nex providing recon support.

Gondolin and Vaarne will be the scouting party for the eastern secondary.

Rest will be the Main Kampfgruppe. Cassidy will protect our backside.

I promoted Carius a bit, weird, whe should already have the second commendation by now.
Maybe it's so random, or the counter (or whatever) resets itself between missions.

Don't be fooled by the "large bonus", in practive it often accounts for a single kill more. Although I'll have to check how it works when firing at two hexes away.

Same for HooDoo

Unfortunately, the combat order sucks unimaginably hard.
In 3D assault, the order increased attack vs. ground troops and was p. cool. This isn't.

Anyhoo..

Sudilikov awaits for capture.

Onwards men, scouts I want intel!

Taking position near the river. Lone T35 spotted, over.

The view is better from the above.

I see a KV2B.

AA spotted, disengaging.

Proceeding to scout the primary.

Multiple enemy Kontaken. They have artillery and AA support.

Verdammte, too far away for our arty.

I'm moving in to flank.

No need to play nice, let them know we're here

Hmm. I was expecting better.

Let me test the 'Werfer

Not bad.

I burn with the anticipation!

Such power...
What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

If you'll forgive me, we still have some mopping up to do.

Hidden Movement.

Under enemy fire!

Holy shit! T35, incoming!

We have your back, stay calm.

Noooo!

RIP Nex. Death by an Il 2M3.
Much too young.

What just happened over there: the T35 is overstrengthed (like most of the shitty equipment tends to be), to 12 str.
The tank has ok stats, which are further increased by 20%, making it pretty uber.
Anus fired at it, but the effect was minimal. Nex was forced to retreat into difficult terrain, far from Katz's protective umbrella.

To add insult to injury, fraps missed the frame saying he's KIA.

Our Bruder shall be avengerd sevenfold. Artillery, shell them Mutterfickern!

Roger. AA neutered.

Moving to kill.

Damn, the T is fricken hard.

Allow me.

Some luftwaffe support maybe?

I'll kill it.

Bow to me, Schwein!

Recon here, spotted enemy aircraft.

Inconvenient. They'll have to wait.
[A brain fart on my part, totally forgot that the AA does not protect aircraft.]

Artillery here, we took up positions for the siege.

Firing missles.

Target disabled.

Pioniere moving in to strike.

Cutting path to the objective.

I'll take the airfield just in case.

I'll take the airfield just in case.

And look what I found.

Moving in to eliminate stragglers.

Erste Blut.

TBC...

 

[spectre]

No sense in getting shot up by the AA. Luftwaffe, assist the Western Kampfgruppe.

Moving in, Kommand.

KV Ausgebombt.

We're being bothered. Fighters assist.

We got your back.

We have multiple air contact incoming.

Prepare yourselves, I am protecting our arty.

They're on me.

Don't sweat.

Nailed you, foker.

Holy shit, what about us?

Shit!

We have a T34 on our ass!

Krapp und Kock!, we're outta here.

The Ruskies counterattack. Garf, Anus and Carius are shot up. The Schweinhunde also move in some raggedy ass partisans to prevent refitting.

They'll be dead meat in a second.

In a minute. We need to clear the situation in the west first.

To refit or not to refit...

I can still kick Arsch!

Indeed. The arty is a bit shot up, but we can still disable the defenders. There's an AT nearby that needs killing.

We bombed the defenders. Rest is up to you.

And how am I to do it with no infantry support?

I'll show you how it's done.

I softened it up for ya?

How conveniently inconvenient.

I'll get that At.

Shit. Another overstrenghtened pos. Bombers alone aren't enough.

Hmmm. How about...

Yep, it's so much better with Aimed Fire.

Sitrep time.

Assault in the west goes as planned. Objective is secure. We only need to refit the arty and we are en route to the primary.
Central assault needs some work, but we're getting there. The easternmost secondary we'll have to skip, it seems.

Back to the first objective.

Rockets are sehr gut vs. infantrie.

Gut they're taken care of. Gives me some space to take a breather.

Striking from the flank.

Cower, you fools!

Flamenwaffen, moving in to take the city.

Enemy has withdrawn, city is taken.

No treat for us this time. But, I'll try something... first, we move in the AT (Vaarne is shot up from the enemy bombers and infantry entenched in the city attacking in their turn. Anyways, the enemy infantry is surrounded by units...

Yep, it works. They have nowhere to go.

How quaint, they're surrendering.

We have some mopping up to do.

Look at them run!

Enemy turn. Von Ulm is repositioned to screen Anus.
Great success. Managed to air-ambush a La-5

They're making it too easy.

No, really, that's just...

On your way down tawariszcz.

Good time for a refit.

Same here. Damn, they got the wheels again.

Aaand since I just about forgot abbout the Fallshirmjaeger, we reposition them closer to the front line.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Bro, I love you long time.

 

[spectre]

Scouting northern path.

We see the stragglers from the city. Also a lone artillery piece.

Would be a shame not to exploit this.

Luftwaffe, mopping up.

Stragglers killed. The path is cleared.

Gut. We'll kill the arty first.

On enemy turn, we get a minor counterattack. A fricken KV 1C and a ZiS

The ZiS tries to get our arty with bomber support, but is driven back with no casualties.
Serrated nailed the bomber, and Merk supresses the ZiS, forcing it to withdraw in shame.

While our backs were turned, a scout car snatches the city.

Swear to gott, they're always there when you're not looking.

That'll teach you.

We quickly drive the ineffectual assaulters back.

Luftwaffe does the mopup and the road is clear for the objective.

5 turns for major left. Plenty of time.

Scouts report. Minimal resistance at the objective.

We see enemy aircraft.

Gut, we need to cripple their air support.

Siege equipment deployed, shelling the city.

I'll lead the way. Follow me to victory!

The killing business' good. We have them.

We'll kill the bombers, just to make sure we do.

Shitfuck, there's more of them.

Neutralize as many as you can.

Meanwhile, the small task force to the west...

Dammit, we have no recon support.

We'll take it slow. Probing attacksthen we wait for air support.

Reasonable.

Ok this is not good.

Not good not good ,the AI just pulled an artillery out of its ass.

Holy tittyfuck!

Miraculously, hooDoo is still standing after the arty barrage, AT barrage and a fighter strike.

I'm outta here!

This is just mean!

Stay still, we have them!

Damn it, some came through!

Fuck, no...

RIP HooDoo. You glorious service to the Vaterland will not be forgotten.

No, Gott! Why?

He'll have a true aryan funeral.

Time for sitrep.

Western approach is approaching target. There was some lagging due to an odd angle of the roads and the artillery needed a refit badly. They need luftwaffe support to take the objective, but that's not happening until we secure the eastern objective.

Our pioniere are lost, which is most unfortunate. We're short on infantry as we are.
Unfortunately, the Nebelwerer is lagging behind and was not used to full capacity in the previous turn.

Also, as you can see, some marauders were spotted near Vaarne's position, they already took the airfield.
Good thing we left a rear guard.

 

[spectre]

We wreak our vengeance on the enemyaircraft.

von Ulm, Heinz Katz and Serrated jointly work together to clear the skies.

The defenders have no AA, so the luftwaffe is free to bomb their hides.

Next turn. Some AA is seen. Unfortunattely, they're too late.

Rockets away.

They're shelled to Oblivion(tm). Now there's just mopping up.

Unfortunately, more movement was seen around Vaarne's position.

I'm cool and all, but some support would be fine.

Meanwhile, the city is taken.

Objective secure.

Stragglers eliminated. No enemy movement nearby. We're done here.

Indeed. One last objective to go. Carius' group sees someresistance, but we'll have to shift some Luftwaffe to them soon.
I'm a bit worried about the south. Tanks and AT are approaching Vaarne's position. He doesn't have the commendation yet, so he's not fully entrenched.

Time for the probing attack.

Shelling target. Derper, try to flank them.

Scheisse, a Katyusha. Good thing the KV's built like a brick shithouse.

Withdraw to my position. We need support for this job.

Enemy turn.

Lovely, just what I needed.

Crap, this will be tight.

Not dead yet.

I've got your back Soldat. Fuhrer protects.

That was helpful. Refitting.

I'll assist the other Kampfgruppe.

Here I come, say auf wiedersehen to the Katyusha.

Shit. AAs.

Shit another katyusha.

I have it in my sight.

Hopefully we can supress it for just enough...

We're here.

Fallshirmjaeger, rendering assistance.

That's what I am talking about.

Target destroyed.

Aaand we're done.

Fuhrer will be pleased with all that potato. Kills went down a bit, but the score is fine.

Debrief

The fallen shall be forever emembered as the Fuhrer's finest.

Shame to see Nex go in such a stupid, stupid fashion, although his demise is overshadowed by HooDoo's.
We're currently undermanned when it comes to infantry, worse still, there's nobody to replace them, I only have a bunch of level twos.

The scenario was fairly straightforward. The deaths were simply bad luck and a bad case of AI pulling artillery
and bombers out of its ass (the bomber that nailed Nex was deployed in enemy turn). Not much I could do, they had superior airpower there and I only had 2 fighters to go around. Unfortunately, winning air support is tedious when you have to juggle protecting your column and chasing bombers.

I only took one secondary this time. t was unfeasible to attempt more, as our air forces would be stretched thin to do it.
I could have taken the central secondary, but I'd rather pull out and not risk losing carius or derper. Or Azira, with two katyushas out there I didn't want to risk it and we need that infantry support badly.

I'm a bit worried about the infantry. We have a shitload of tank and AT leaders, so maybe I'll just plop some of them as SS to support our advance and we'll se how it goes.

Next one is Stalingrad, we're off the steppes and back into the cold again, so brace yourselves.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Nex and Hoodoo

 

[anus_pounder]

Hoodoo and Nex

But wait a minute, Is that Hoodoo coming back as a as an AT leader ? Running out of portraits, game ?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

RIP Nex

HooDoo cheated death as you can see:

 

[spectre]

Yep, seems like HooDoo is one tough motherfucker. You recall he went MIA the last time.

I think I'll use that AT leader and plop him into infantry shoes just for the heck of it.
That'll mean no veteran orders and no tactician commendation, but we'll se how it goes.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]