lycortas
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Komuch for a moderate socialist victory!

Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:20 pm

Hi,

This is my very first AAR so skewer and abuse away!
I am playing the Siberian Whites in a 3 player grand campaign.

Alikchi is playing the evil, perfidious Reds.
Digital_Pariah is playing my allies, the Southern Whites.
Now we just have to wheedle Digital_Pariah to write an AAR.
You know you want to, all the cool kids are doing it!

Anyway, we are four turns into the game, I started with a fairly standard opening taking out all of the Red cities in Siberia and the east. I abandoned Uralsk on the first turn, moved that corps to Orenburg and i just wacked Blucher in Orsk. I am now going to blow the Orsk depot because it is of no use to me and this way a parisan army will not be able to supply itself from that convenient lvl 4 depot.

I sped White troops west as fast as they took their objectives in Siberia, so at this point most of the white army is in Ufa. Unfortunately they are going to have to stay in Ufa for turn since their cohesion is about zero.

The eastern troops are watching for partisans and robbing my Whites of precious supplies. The Ural troops, especially my Bashkars, are converting railways to me.

The Czechs are largely sitting outside Ekaterineburg... yes, outside since for two turns one of the two division commanders and the Czech legion commander have been inactive. I just walked into an empty Ekaterineburg in the most recent turn but i have NO idea where the 16.000 Bolshevik garrison went. I think to Perm but we shall see.

The Komuch and the Czech legion on the Volga went hyper and took Simbirsk on the third turn and Kazan on the fourth, interestingly enough against Trotski in both battles. Don't tell my Red opponent but my forces in Kazan have 105 combat power at the moment due to casualties and exhaustion.

I know that this is the standard Komuch move to grab the gold train, and i do have 792 money at the moment, but i question how smart this is in the long run. The Komuch People's Army could very easily be scattered or destroyed here and the Whites can not reinforce for a couple more turns until i convert more railroads. Shortly after that my Socialist brother Czechs go home to create their own country. I understand since they have been waiting about forever for this day, but boy does this leave my naughty bits flapping in the wind waiting to get a Trotski bris.

My fifth turn is just consolidation and converting more raillines. I am ignoring Saratov at the moment and am going to send the Czech legion to Perm to anchor my north front, and i will send the Middle Siberia corps to replace the Czechs when they leave.

I don't know what else to do at the moment... I built 1 mountain division and 1 infantry division as reinforcements but i lack and spare leaders. I am going to have to spend 15 engagement buying a war factory in Omsk because i am horribly short of war supplies. That is 15 engagement that could hire generals though so i am hurting.

I requisition in every region that has 60% or higher support and reform in regions with less.

Thats about it so far.

Michael

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6th turn

Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:59 pm

Hmmm.... not much changed.

I beat up on Blucher more. I think i found the Ekaterineburg force in Perm. I am throwing the Czech legion at them.

The Iron division some how got past my Volga gunboats and is on the East side of the river, so he has one lvl 1 city for supplies and Czechs to the west and my rested Middle Siberia corps attacking from the east. Hopefully i can wipe the division out as i think killing whole units is the only hope the Whites' have.

The Komuch survived a rest turn in Kazan, and are halfway rested. I considered abandoning Kazan and marching up the rail line to the east to link with the Czech legion but decided to try to hold Kazan. I abandoned Simbirsk though.
My other two White corps are resting in Samara, hopefully in a turn or two they can actually do something.

I built an arms factory in Omsk, and last turn i partial mobilized since i have no conscripts but scads of cash. Kinda feel like a banana dictator.
Oh, thats right, i am a banana dictator. Or we will be soon.

Hopefully next turn i can rebuild the railnet, i can not move supplies at the moment.

Mike

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6th and 7th turns

Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:15 pm

Not much happened in early September so i combined these.

I let my White troops and the Komuch rest and refit, while the Czechs combined and took Perm. I have the Komuch Peoples army holding Kazan while the Czech legion is in and around Perm. Giggle. Rail bound Trotski is EAST of Kazan with a Red Corps on a 3 region section of track he still controls.
I have him surrounded and out of supply. Also the Iron division is still east of the Volga and cannot cross due to my gunboats.

My one worry was either Simbirsk or Syzran, he ended up hitting Syzran with 12000 men under Muraviev, i had 7500 Czechs with not one artillery piece. I won, 1400 casualties to his 2900. Good Czechs!

I actually do not know what to do next, push towards Tambov or towards Saratov... both might be out of my league since it is late September and the Czech legion is soon to leave.

I have built 3 divisions now, 1 Komuch and 2 White but none of them are ready for battle yet. I have run 7 or 8 reform missions so far and still have my morale at 125ish.

Michael

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October

Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:16 pm

Yea, i am not pushing anywhere. I have one corps in Simbirsk, one in Kazan beating up Trotski's remnants, and about 3 + corps in Syzran with 500 or so combat power facing.... 1000 combat power of Reds.

I am seriously contemplating abandoning Kazan to bring troops south. My mountain division is railing into Samara to help, while a conscript infantry division, with a training officer is heading out to finish off the Iron division, which only has 10 power left since they are on the East bank of the Volga and starving.

I have scads of money and manpower but no spare leaders and no war supply so i cannot build artillery or armoured trains.
So i started construction of a war factory in Omsk to help out on that front.

I feel that the Reds have most of their forces facing me so i am hoping my southern ally can help out a bit more.
I think he had some activation problems with his leaders so he does not have his capital yet.

I have two brigades of Whites in Perm to hold the place when the Czechs leave in November. I am building a cavalry division to squash greens with in the rear areas since i did get a couple of green revolts this turn.

Michael

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November

Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:23 pm

In early November i was still defending Kazan with the Komuch, the Reds moved in and we retreated without a fight. I am a little ticked at that, as i was outnumbered but i was across a river and dug in.

I beat him off one more time at Syzran but i also chose to abandon Simbirsk.
The Reds had two starving divisions just pass through my armies this turn as well. Grr... i was on attack, large forces in clear terrain but his supply wagons slipped through in both cases.

Greens took a city in Tomsk province, i will try to find something to kill them with.
I built 1/2 a Komuch division and 1 White infantry division, 2 more batteries.


Mike

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