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Lynxyonok

White forces appear to be hurting for manpower: this may be an unexpected effect from my aggressive loyalty conversion in their rearguard, with virtually every Siberian and Eastern province running 70%+ red allegiance. Now that I think about it, I have not seen any requisitions or like events from W...

Lynxyonok

Mongols join the fight - no leader, but extra partisans are truly appreciated (I don't know if I would have been able to advance as far as I had without all those supply-free Ukrainian partisan units crawling through Ural and Siberia).

Lynxyonok

A high-level overview of just how much land Whites still hold - you can see red strings along rail lines, but countryside remains out of my reach.

Lynxyonok

An interesting development in Caucasus: Whites back away completely from sieging Red uprising in Baku. Other than a single garrison, no other units are in sight.

Lynxyonok

1921! We made it. The last year. Pretty much every useful unit has been built, the only available ones are now militias and whatever regiments are lost on the battlefield. With clock ticking, I have been more aggressive in battles, losing more regiments in the past few months than in two years prior...

Lynxyonok

At the highest difficulty levels, AI stacks seem to survive without food or reinforcements. They just replicate despite freezing storms outside. Yeah the game spawns zombies :wacko: What I like about RUS, is that volunteers do trickle in. Regions with high loyalty get extra MIL units out of the blu...

Lynxyonok

What I like about RUS, is that volunteers do trickle in. Regions with high loyalty get extra MIL units out of the blue. It's a little, but it's appreciated.

P.S. It's the single element unit on the right.

Lynxyonok

Irkutsk finally falls - I'm now only 2 objectives (Erevan, Vladivostok) away from total domination - and I don't think this could have ever been possible without all the partisan units sent eastward as soon and as fast as possible.

I wonder if they are going to do well against the Japanese?

Lynxyonok

If successful on the battlefield, it's easy to run out of available supply unit slots, and there's sudden imbalance: your men are starving in Siberia, but you can't build anything, because there are so many supply trains half a world away in Ukraine. Ow.

Lynxyonok

At the highest difficulty levels, AI stacks seem to survive without food or reinforcements. They just replicate despite freezing storms outside.

Lynxyonok

Wow - this past wave was absolutely brutal on Red Army; and yes, there are MPs and Cheka units in every non-garrison stack.

If anything, this game teaches one to never, ever be complacent.

Lynxyonok

It's good to be back, finally on the Eastern front.

Lynxyonok

Something I've totally forgot is how armored trains carry enough supplies to feed even the largest armies. This brings the importance of building them early on into an entirely new light. Their downside though, is they can't bypass enemy cities on their own: a column of 15 trains got frozen by a Whi...

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The way Greens keep spawning in Central Asia is mesmerizing. I will have to keep investing EPs there to improve loyalty - and I definitely have to declare war on Caucasian states now (if I don't, way more Greens will appear in the region).

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Galicia - Westernmost Ukraine or Southernmost Poland in a sense - has escaped fighting thus far; after all, this area lays away from the usual Minsk --> Warsaw or Kiev --> Odessa --> Bucuresti routes. As such, short of capture of Lwow, no Reds have have been here so far.

Lynxyonok

One of the most profound strategies this campaign has been to send any / all partisans to Siberia, as supply woes were expected. Every Ukrainian partisan unit and every surviving Kuban unit were sent there; they fought through Ural, frequently being the first ones to repair and capture railroads, an...

Lynxyonok

White forces are by no means defeated: they are still very dangerous.

P.S. Muraviev - the only free-moving Red HQ if one chooses to stay with Reds United - is currently there as well.

Lynxyonok

P.S. Please ignore horrible visual quality, but this is exactly how Civil War took place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzauI8ATRP8

Lynxyonok

Sending the best troops all the way forward has a price: enemy can slide in, sieging a crucial city, and yet all the neighboring army stacks are helpless: they don't have leaders, they only have militia or recruits. And that's how the entire country becomes striped in so many colors. There's an inte...

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If not squashed early, anarchists can become a real issue for any White opponent. They keep multiplying (every other stack in the below map is AI-controlled) and reinforcing. Next White campaign I will ensure I absolutely do not touch them - let the Reds take EP penalty if they wish to activate them!

Lynxyonok

Poland remains an opportunity; while Reds hold Warsaw and several other cities, Polish, Ukrainian, and even French forces cut off any connection with the rest of Red Russia, and supply has quickly become a major issue. Despite having maxed out every supply unit, despite aggressive depot building, de...

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One of the strategies I like to employ is to throw all Orsk and Semipalatinsk forces south to protect Tashkent; most tend to make it, like Blucher's cavalry or the 2 green-red Alash-Orda units. Some, unfortunately, don't necessarily make it, like the poor INF unit below. Still, Central Asia is a mor...

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The game is genuinely switching into a hot phase: 20% of my total loses happened in the past 3-4 months. It has been quite a clear summer (I don't have free replacements like whites do due to difficulty, only factory-provided ones, so most of the winter time was spent defending), plus clock is clear...

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An example of how tough this game has been - Moscow has been just besieged by a really high-skilled army.

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Skipping Kork (mentioned earlier) and perma-stationed Trotsky, here are some of the best leaders I've had the honor to employ. Yes, I am playing with the highest variability of leaders (which did result in quite a few White leaders with stats of 9 - ouch!).

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Just a quick post to say I haven't been commenting but have been reading your posts with great pleasure. Pictures and stories, especially from later in the game are very interesting. Was it a challenge or did you gain momentum quite early? What were the major conflict areas? Thanks and keep us post...

Lynxyonok

The victory is still very far away - I may be holding most of the major cities, but there are numerous White stacks running through my rearguard. I swear this to myself every campaign: full-blooded divisions head the front, light infantry brigade stacks with a MP unit clean up the back. Yet every ga...

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A mistake I had made was to rely on Baltic Fleet as is without augmenting it with Raskolnikov's Volga Squadron. I couldn't fathom that ocean-going destroyers (irreplaceable, mind you) are actually weaker than fluvial ones that can be built at will. Consider the two below, a 2-star veteran ocean DD v...

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As seen, I'm concentrating heavily on improving loyalty in hostile provinces. 1918-1919 effort was mainly on Far East and Siberia; eventually, as those regions started to reach 90%+ loyalty with no partisan rebellions, I have switched to supporting Caucasus, Poland, Karelia, and even Finland. Now th...

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Warsaw falls - but there are many Polish stacks to clean up. Kork, the hero of Rumania and Poland, nearly fills up all of his experience stars. No wonder - he's leading both Red Latvian divisions through campaigns in Ukraine, Wallachia, and now Masovia!

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