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I personally think this command capacity concept should be completely reworked. Perhaps for WITW, but surely for WITE. The Soviet side has already been mentioned, but in my opinion the German side also deserves some consideration. Just open up the 1943 scenario, 18th Army is overloaded by 31, 9th Army by 15. In the 1942 scenario besides 18th Army being overloaded by 28, 16th Army is overloaded by 18, 9th Army by 17, 1st Panzer by 11 and 2nd Panzer by 9. Honestly, if you take away the RHGs, in the 1942 scenario out of 12 German Armies, 9 are overloaded. First, I think that command capacity should partly be linked to the attributes of a commander. It makes no sense that in terms of the amount of units a commander can lead, Zhukov or Manstein are put on the same level as some random leader of a corps. The administration attribute (perhaps in combination with rank) would be perfectly suited for this task. Make something like 18 and 24 the standard amount (for corps, army groups, fronts likewise), and for every point above 5 or so the command limit is raised by a certain percentage. And if rank is another factor, then for every rank the command capacity is also raised. Second, perhaps the different philosophies of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in terms of leading their units should get some consideration. The German army was famous for its "Auftragstaktik", giving their subordinates (comparatively) a great amount of freedom. That's why the Germans had no problem in subordinating Panzer Groups under regular armies for certain tasks in 1941. For example on June 22nd, for the border battles Panzer Groups 2 and 3 were subordinate to 4th and 9th Army respectively, then for Typhoon Panzer Group 3 was subordinated to 9th Army and Panzer Group 4 to 4th Army. (on 2nd October 41 9th Army possessed 23 divisions - which would be 22 over the command limit, and 4th Army 22 divisions). Furthermore, the Germans frequently formed "Armeegruppen", grouping two, sometimes three armies together under the command of one army leader.
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