Eastern Front - Bryansk-Orel
Operation Pickaxe
Driving the wedge continues near Bryansk, with the 2nd Guards Tank Army leading the charge. Casualties have been high on both sides, but I can replace them more easily than the Axis. Now that the Soviets have seen months of continuous combat, the proficiency of units is rising. Against stronger panzer and panzergrenadier divisions, the Soviets are making gains on a consistent basis. Reconstituted units are also returning to their formations. They will move into the front line positions within a turn or two.
If I had more fresh divisions at my disposal here and were able to push the Nazis back earlier in the turn, I'd be able to exploit the holes the Soviets are punching in the enemy lines. By the end of this bloody turn, the Soviet armor was able to blast its way to clearing three hexes, easily the largest single-turn gain of the operation. But only one of those hexes was outright captured in the end.
Eastern Front - Rostov-Stalino
Operation Annoyance
Quite the "flying V" here as the offensive continues westward. The northern attack has also made good progress, enough that I've started committing more forces to the sector. One of the notable bits of intel gathered this turn was the participation of the 21. Panzer Division of the Das Afrika Korps. I don't want to read into it too much, but on the face it seems Ken is pulling divisions from other fronts to bolster the defense of the southern Eastern Front.
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