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Excellent point, what do you gain by holding 5 hexes inside the Crimea, at the gates of Kerch/Sevastapol, vs. 3 at the top? Nothing, just more empty space. ...and two of the exit hexes are very tough, swamps with only 1 hex adjacent, over a major river. Romanians are enough to hold those two. Give them a German Division or two, and a 3-corps Romanian Army should be able to keep it permanently stoppered. There is a risk the Russkies come out in the Winter. But it seems to me that even if that happens, you can probably stop them on the Dnepr line, and to the East they would be super-dangerously exposed to being cut-off and destroyed. In Summer of 1942, you can bust-in vs. the AI. Against a human I suspect that will be much tougher, but if I am a SU player, no way I attempt a breakout in 1942; I would be very content to sit there.
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