Well done fellas.
Believe that was quite a success so well done to us 
Glad we did agree not to do the separate units at the beginning would have not been viable I think.
Only issue is still really the imbalance of numbers but we are going on a recruitment drive now for next year.
Am in two mind which way to go for next year got two options:
1) Leningrad city - we need to finish of the campaign with an urban game but that all depends on numbers
or
2) We bypass the city and take the next step which will be the Russians with the upper hand and them pushing back the Germans
Have a ponder maybe a look around and we will reconvene next year and get going.
Thanks for all the support.
(P.S. will be clearing this section up so if there is anything you want me to keep let me know)
Yes, I think it went very well. Using the tracks and junctions to regulate the game worked very well indeed, and the timings meant we didn't have to use radios to coordinate. There were a couple of things which went wrong - Gareth wasn't briefed about the defence plan for the water towers, he'd assumed we were defending both (in view of the numbers, perhaps we should have). We also all got a bit lost in the woods for the pilot mission, so it would have been useful to have walked that bit of the ground beforehand.
The walk around Tim and me did first thing was really, really useful though.
I'm sure there are other lessons to be learned, but I haven't thought it out yet.
For the next game, I think an urban battle would be rally tough to organise. There just aren't any urban sites - they either come and go so fast you can never get organised, or they are the big permanent ones - Blue Streak or Anzio, which I don't think we could afford to put a game on given the likely numbers. The great factory one Josh had last year for one of the Cold War games has already gone for development.
I don't think there was much fighting in Leningrad itself anyway , so perhaps we should do one of the later 1943 offensives (maybe Polar Star) which tried to break Army Group North. The reduction of the Demyansk pocket might be interesting - as it is a salient the German supply lines are very vulnerable, which might be a way of evening out a numbers imbalance if we have lots of 'partisan' activity. Anyway, something to discuss.
Cheers
Martin
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" Helmuth von Moltke
Toys: AGM MP40, Cyma M1A1, TM M14/G43/SVT40, TM VSR/K98, SnS No. 4, ASG Sten, Ppsh.
Arnhem3,Gumrak,Campoleone
The MAW - where patton stalled was held is still running will drop them a mail and test the ground.
I didn't realise it was still going, yes, that would be a good one. I can't quite remember where it was, but somewhere near Leicester?
Cheers
Martin
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" Helmuth von Moltke
Toys: AGM MP40, Cyma M1A1, TM M14/G43/SVT40, TM VSR/K98, SnS No. 4, ASG Sten, Ppsh.
Arnhem3,Gumrak,Campoleone
