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Lynxyonok

End-game Red build strategy is all about supply: bateaux for ports, supply units for cities without a port.

And, of course, at times it makes business sense to build meaningless depots in the rear only to free up a supply unit back to the build pool so that it can be recreated at the frontier.

Lynxyonok

Anarchists do become a sledgehammer by the end of the game. One main stack, a few other ones in West Ukraine - all they need is 1-2 turns to recover in a Ekaterinoslav province, and off to another raid they go.

Lynxyonok

Ural region remains firmly in White hands. Orenburg has been taken, long enough to slide a couple of corps to Central Asia, but that link is severed again. Red Navy has become instrumental in keeping Eastern Whites at bay. I have attempted to venture in the area, but without all-cavalry armies it's ...

Lynxyonok

Andatiep, to please players, White fans and leftists Left-SR and Makhno fans, had added to the game the "cool", quite anti-historical versions of White and Red: 'Democratic' White and 'Democratic' Red, possibly White allied, and anarchists let nicely alone. About anarchists, it's really w...

Lynxyonok

Central Asia remains a hotbed even 11 turns before the end of the game. 2 white stack near Khiva. A massive Green stack that has been hiding all the way by Caspian Sea and is only now joining the fray. My recon force suddenly feels like hobbits when they had awakened goblins in Lord of the Rings' Mo...

Lynxyonok

To support massive Red armies advancing on every front, supply infrastructure is essential, especially as White raiders keep cutting rail links. Here you see a string of 5 level 4 depots attempting to support invasion of Far East (Vladivostok); it's not enough.

Lynxyonok

Reds retake Bucuresti in an epic battle - the first army sent there in 1921 was nearly annihilated - and thus the only White objective on the map is Vladivostok.

This battle also yields the first Red general with all 9 experience stars: Kork.

Lynxyonok

For an unknown reason, a massive White stack protecting North Vladivostok approaches disappears or leaves, and Reds finally have the chance to advance towards Khabarovsk. 12 turns to go, shall we try for Vladivostok?

Lynxyonok

Once again, the famous pattern emerges: my front troops break through and forth, and White flank and wipe out rearguard garrisons. Therefore, the strategy is to knock out all the cities in an area to prevent unit and supply creation for the enemy.

Lynxyonok

Red forces finally storm Erevan; there is a possibility of retaking Bucuresti as well. Vladivostok offensive has slowed down upon coming across a particularly strong Eastern White stack.

P.S. Over 2M dead in this game already...

Lynxyonok

French Fleet - the last remaining major White naval stack - is zapped off Crimea, and 4 armored cruisers go down.

Lynxyonok

Reds make the first incursion into the easternmost region of former Russian empire.

Lynxyonok

Anarchists eventually just outlive their usefulness. But why attack them?

Lynxyonok

The biggest threat Reds face - at least under my rule - is overextension; front and forward armies pack a punch, yet once they pass and enemy potentially takes over a few areas, rearguard may be helpless.

Lynxyonok

Overconcentration of forces may be dangerous if not outright brutal due to supply storage: this army stack is supported by 4 level 4 supply depots and is still starving!

Lynxyonok

Viatka region is an example of how front can pass through a theater, leaving an entire region behind; Reds have taken Samara - Ufa railway, and they have secured Kazan - Perm passage, and that essentially renders Viatka region non-essential. One can truly wonder just how many pockets like that were ...

Lynxyonok

Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland remain to be an area where Reds just can't get a foothold; this region is between objectives, between areas that yield recruits and money. Therefore, even in mid-1921, these regions remain under White control.

Lynxyonok

Central Asia is a true kryptonite - probably to every playable faction. Countless Greens make any meaningful assault campaign impossible; distance makes supplying one's troops quite a pain. It's 7 turns before the end of the game, and Reds finally knock out the last railroad-based White city; it was...

Lynxyonok

Whoops! A Red-Anarchist regiment (player-led) re-takes formerly Red-Green depot of Nova Odessa and immediately burns it to the ground.

Lynxyonok

What I believe to be the first loyalty-based partisan units appear in the game; I was hoping all my effort to build up Siberia to 90%+ Red loyalty would have worked before this, but I will take what I can.

Lynxyonok

Despite my best efforts, some of HQs are starting to spin wheels as they don't have enough MIL or Conscript regiments to upgrade. There are 10 HQs on the board (all the available ones) plus free-range Muraviev (as I had chosen Reds United) currently in Ural. So, including battlefield promotions and ...

Lynxyonok

> They were for the russian empire in WW1 to defend against germans, then down in the new power red hands. It was true too for the South whites, as england gave them all their spare arty after WW1. I don't know if East whites were given so much. Free artillery is amazing, but it quickly ends up gett...

Lynxyonok

It is fascinating that it's the Eastern Whites that are carrying the game in the late stages, much like they do in the early ones - all those Central Asian, Japanese, Polish stacks do make the difference.

Lynxyonok

Reds are slowly advancing across the Eastern theater, but there's a problem: an area is marked green and impossible to enter. It might be the case that Reds cannot ever possibly enter Vladivostok region?

Lynxyonok

Out of the blue, Whites have been extra active throughout the last winter, with Rumanian, Polish, French stacks coming out from all over. Bucuresti fell; a few smaller towns did as well, all the while Reds were trying to save up Railroad capacity for Irkutsk Siberian offensive. But now weather is fa...

Lynxyonok

While it may seem that Reds are winning, they are not:

- there's a stalemate in Finland
- Central Asia is still half-green
- anywhere outside of Moscow proper, Whites hold significant land masses

May spring weather come soon.

Lynxyonok

With enough support through building extra units, Makhno becomes a massive sledgehammer that Reds wield; once Eastern Ukraine is liberated from Whites, Makhno can start striking outside of the area once a month (assuming the unit needs a turn to recover due to being out of home area and losing cohes...

Lynxyonok

Transport capacity becomes a sudden roadblock in 1921: all the previous bonuses from building factories quietly time out, and a user is suddenly stuck with a huge army that can move around.

Lynxyonok

White stacks continue to appear out of nowhere - both land and naval ones.

Lynxyonok

This whole campaign I haven't been concerned with Northern Whites; there are no objectives there to capture, and I'd just assumed that they won't be a threat. Now, with Novgorod captured by their troops and Northern regiments running all over Baltics, Pskov, and Novgorod, I may have to reconsider th...

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