M A N D A T O R Y I N T R O D U C T O R Y
Hello everyone once again. This will my probably be my final entry done in the Blitzkrieg I RTT game. Apologizes if I was a little late this time with the blog. In this one I wanted to portray the large scale combat part of Blitzkrieg which is especially featured in it's most popular mod called GZM. So yeah, that is all for introductory text.
Karelian Isthmus, October 1944. Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive.
It has been roughly a few days since the guns felt hot. Intially the strongly fortified Finno-German defenders resisted for hours untill the steel rain from Stalin's hammers and organs melted them away.
Now their first line has been broken, sabotage troops had swifltly eliminated the forward guards stationed at the only functional bridge in the vicinity thus allowing us to move forward without the risk of the bridge being blown apart by hidden explosives. In this initial fighting many of our comrades had died including some of the most prized veterans from the Storm Groups, the newly introducted Naval Infantry soldiers also had suffered the same fate and this tragedy is believed to be caused by the enemy tendency to hide in the leftover snowy craters after the rocket barrages had stopped. Despite this somewhat acceptable losses there is a strong feeling among the men. Yesterday the facists ambushed one of our frontline supply convoys caused noticeable spare parts shortages for one of the Guards Tank Companies but now we have been calling in close air support rapidly on of their entrenched arty bases and there was no response from them. Flocks of bombers began pounding down on it and we noticed only a few salvoes of inaccurate German FlaK fire from the camouflaged radio post. They are giving up the terrain. Their soldiers are now becoming no more then a mixed bunch of lightly armed and confused conscripts in face of our latest advancements in military technology. The order has been given to proceed with the storming of the second enemy defensive line. The battle starts today and this time our regimental HQ wants us to try with double envelopment by utilising the newly fielded prototype ships with their reorganized marine assault units.
Yugoslavia, September 1944. Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation.
Today is a fine day to finally make use of this fancy notebook that I rightfully took over from a German sargeant's corpse. We are moving forward rapidly as usual with no significant changes to the course. The command treats us well, conditions had kind of improved since our first days in Romania. The Germans are still giving us a hard fight for every meter of ground that we take into control. Partisans aren't that much of a problem to us. Rumour has it that some new elite VDV units are being dispatched to handle the too well entrenched SS positions so we don't end up losing too many important soldiers. The fight ahead looks promising, paratroopers will handle the first batch of enemy defenders and we are mere five kilometers away from the first real city in here. No more struggle.
I guess I should be finishing writing down my thoughts on this stolen notebook, time to become useful to the country again.
Hungary, Budapest, January 1944. Budapest Offensive The Fifth Period.
It is a good day to die and we had reached the outskirts of the capital city after months of hard fighting and repelling massed enemy counterattacks on our positions. I feel like a real soldier now. Nothing can stop us now. The initial mechanised vanguard is already waiting for the orders to move in into the city and I heard some top officers talking about the first objectives. Guessing we'll be first tasked to airborne assault our way to the still functional munitions factory. My head hurts a little today and I don't really know why... I wanna have a decent life. Maybe there's a different life amongst this all, maybe after the war we'll all drop our soldiers' behaviour and like... become a productive and peace liking member of the society. We certainly need more people in the industry nowadays.
CONTEST USED:
Blitzkrieg I Real Time Tactics game with the latest GZM 7.77.3 mod that has been unfortunely released only in the Russian langauge with some crappy half-finished English translation probably done via using the Google Translator.
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Fun fact: these Soviet offensives are all related to eachother timeline wise.
