WITE Campaign Game, ver 1.09

[Currahee]

For what it's worth, I'm now on Turn 86, 2-4-43, as Soviets, AI on "normal" difficulty....not a huge challenge, but lots of fun, and a good learning exercise.  Axis reached the gates of Leningrad and Moscow the first winter, but took neither; and in '42 made no real further progress, but didn't lose any ground to speak of.  Soviets busy forming all the more efficient corps units for a year; manpower doing fine, replacements exceeding attrition.  I may be able to gain some ground in '43, remains to be seen.  The Axis is hanging tough, and the AI uses "reserves" well on defense.  I doubt I'm really attriting him that bad...both armies will be in good shape when the mud dries in '43. Total losses to date, Axis 2,394,000, Soviet 7,229,000.

Of course, Stalingrad and Caucasus were never threatened, allowing me to move the Caucasus armies by sea through Crimea, to my southern front.  So territory-wise, I'm doing better than Stalin; however, the Axis hasn't lost the Sixth Army, and are not reeling, so you could also say they're doing better than Hitler. 

I've only built two mech corps, because I don't have the admin points to build motorized and mech brigades, which are the building blocks of mech corps.  I've been using almost all my points to build infantry, cavalry and tank corps.  I think I'll need more mech corps before I can utilize encirclement tactics.  At this time, when I do push the Axis back, it's one painful hex at a time.