June 24th, 1941BTW, one turn on this campaign = two days.
Wow! Shit got real pretty fast out here. Looks like we're a little outnumbered by Soviet aircraft. They came out of the fog like banshees. Our losses were slighter than they could have been. Fortunately we have two units of Flak 88's watching over Army groups north and center, and smaller 3.7cm flak on the southern front.
Our attack on Grodno is going pretty well. The 15cm artillery unearthed the defenders from their battlements, when I dispatched Generaleutnant Taricus and his 36th Grenadiers across the bridge leading into the city. It's not a favorable attacking position, but their skill and firepower should have been enough to blast their way through the defense. They took about 25% dead and wounded in the assault, fighting bravely through the bottlenecked defenses, and dug in. In the morning, Soviet aircraft swept in with guns blazing, but failed to strike any significant targets among the grenadiers and they hunkered down through it. I suspect they'd been drinking. How else do you miss the bridge?
Otherwise, one of our Bf109 wings stumbled over an AA position by sheer bad luck and lost a couple fighters. Bah!
We had a proper tank battle in the fields alongside the river opposite Grodno. The 26th and 19th Panzer Divisions engaged a force of Soviet T-26 tanks, who fought back pretty viciously, actually, before being forced back to the Nieman river. Soviet fighters strafed the 19th Div. and knocked out a few too many tanks for my comfort.
We've only met some halfhearted resistance along this main artery so far. The Red infantry is scattering. Note, I also obtained a new wing of Bf109F's, the 25th Wing. They're green pilots, but we'll need them to win this air war. We now have three fighter wings and one of tactical bombers against five Soviet fighter wings and one tactical bomber (so far as we know).
We're bombing the hell out of them. Not much to say so far. Clearly it looks like a better idea to ford the river below Brest and bypass the fortress until we can shell it to pieces.
Current unit assignments:
NotAQuisling - 26th Panzer Division. These are Panzer IV D's and fresh off the assembly line in Germany.
Taricus - He's leading the 36th SS Grenadiers, who saw action in Greece during April and earned their stripes in battle there.
Monkeyhead - Of the 1st Fallschirmjagers, of course. Last seen splattered with blood somewhere around the officer's saloon.
Elfeater - The new commander of the 23rd Fallschirmjagers, who were commissioned for the Greek campaign and have a pretty impeccable combat reputation so far.
And for the others (if they still want them):
EuchreJack - 22nd Panzer Division.
DarkerDark - The 10th Grenadiers, one of my dearest infantry divisions.
Sheb - The 16th Panzer Division.
Simmura McCrea - The 15cm artillery battalion.
Fishbreath (traitor!) commands whichever infantry division is defending Volkovysk.
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