Flashing Sword of Retribution

[Ivan]

Organisation is a major headache for me an inexperienced player. I've decided to try and think in terms of 6 major groupings as defined under the Corps Atachement dialogue. This makes it easier to get my head around things. These six are:

1st Guards Army
38th Army
3rd Tank Army
40th Army
69th Army
6th Army
Popov

3rd tank bump into Das Reich the 00:00 2nd Feb, slightly precarious for both sides:




An obvious 1st objective for the 69th army will be Volchansk for example. Just having this in mind makes me keep some sort of order. The last thing I need is mixed up units and organisations all scrambling towards the west with no sense of coherence. One of the major reasons for this is the problem of supply. All the Russian supply sources are east of the map and set at '65' the situation will get worse the further west I roll. I have already noticed problems and I'm only just barely past the Oskol.

I've never used Corps attachments before but I will be utilising this as needed to keep things coherent. Keeping HQs in command range will be vital as will maintaining security of my supply lines.

The briefing stresses the importance of taking out the German Supply sources, Kharkov and Krasnograd will clearly be initial targets followed by the major supply junction at the Dnepr.

As I see it at the moment I have some strengths and weakness.

Pro
Numbers
mobility (especially tanks)
artillery (seems very effective)
the iniative

cons
lower morale
supply
behind on points
security as I advance (prone to counter attack)

That's all for now.