Soviet Union
The first counter offensive
Air battles:
After the German attack was halted in late August, the battle places changed from land to air. While we had planes in huge numbers we were at disadvantage against the Germans. This was due to our troops was the primary concern and got nearly all the available production to have the upper hand over the enemy with better quality and more quantity weapons than they can throw at us. Thanks to this our defence line was never broken. This left the air force use underpowered planes against the Germans. Moreover while our pilots just went thru their first dodge fights, the enemy pilots already had huge experience from the battles against UK and allies months ago. Plus their leaders and tactics were far better than ours when the war started.
The first air battles took place over the northern front between Riga and Konigsberg, the overambitious air generals quickly despatched hundreds of planes on the first sight of enemy planes, which caused many casualties in both planes and pilots. While our air fleets licked their wounds, for weeks the enemy bombers freely bombed our defensive lines and retreating soldiers alike, however they gained little advantages by this kind of bombing. Then we engage them for 2-3 day , this fights were more balanced than the last ones and many German planes never got home mostly bombers, but again our planes had to fall back to regroup. It was clear we can’t defeat the axis air power so we had to change strategy and we decided to do hit and run attacks. We tried to split enemy airpower to more than one region, and when we saw a region where only a handful of enemy patrolled, in hours our pilots ambushed these planes by 2-3 times more. These kind of attacks brought great victories to SU, but sometimes the enemy reinforcements were too quick and the fight took more time than we wanted. I could say the overall kill/death statistics are balanced, and with every passing day our pilots are more experienced slowly reaching the Germans’. The winter brought us new type of fighter which is faster and can dish out greater punch than the German ones, so to speak as in land we will dominate the skies in the near future.
Commandoes:
And now my favourites the ultramarines of the Soviet Union
You already aware of their firs t success against Berlin in July. Where they landed in stealth and quickly moved into the industrial core of the German Empire ,then demolished everything while the Germans bombed their capital , none of them survived, they are heroes of the communism and a new Stalin statue was build in Leningrader where they left our shores. The second marine units made quick landings and raiding attack along the whole undefended Baltic shoreline ,they fought in Finland and multiple times in northern Germany ,they survived so many battles ,until mid December when their ships was torpedoed during course to Leningrad for resupply. Hopefully they will get another Stalin statue when we will reform our navy in the future to boost the newbie’s moral.
Navy:
However the Italians made a success against our navy in the black see where they bombed our south fleet and sunk nearly all ships, our planes arrived too late to Sevastopol . On the north the German bombers started a campaign against Leningrad ports and ships in the region. The shipyards were bombed day and night for months; we’ve tried to clear the airspace several times but failed to do. These bombing runs used more IP, than the building the whole fleet of the SU , so I could say they worth their price. Even German generals said, they’ve never fought against such a sturdy enemy as my subs.
Land: I’ve already said the German attack was halted in August but didn’t mention our first major counterattack which has happened in September. This campaign started with an attack on Konigsberg where we nearly captured the city , only the huge axis losses prevented us to change the flags. The Germans quickly started to strengthen the city by redeploying troops from the middle front ,which lead us a chance to push back the enemy and break thru the river line. The next session was a full scale attack to capture north-east Hungary and pour into East Germany thru this gap. We used out the winter to fortify our positions against the inevitable roman and Spanish counterattack, this worked wonderfully and the whole German front collapsed for a week or so when a huge battle took place over a province. The province changed occupier several times and after I cancelled the further attack due to weather conditions weren’t in favour of us. The battle was so harsh that it coasted 100k+200k wounded casualties for the red army and lots of armoured transport cars and supply trucks. The axis suffered even more, the numbers aren’t exact but around 200k German died +300k wounded + nearly a hundred tanks were blown up ,and the roman counter attack coasted nearly a 500k lives for the axis. I’m sure they couldn’t keep this losses for another week but neither my army, when the weather will be good again we will continue the attack where we stopped and this time axis won’t be saved by it
