Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: mooreshawnm

So playing the '43 scenario and called off Citadel. Spent '43 to '44 retreating to shorter and more
defensible lines. The armor conducted numerous 'back hand blow' counter offensives during the retreat.
June of '44 and the lines are The Daugava River, Dnepr River, Ingul River. Only areas of concern are the
gap between the Daugava and the Dnepr where the 3rd Pz Army is fighting and the bridgehead over the Dnepr
between Cherkassy and Kirovgrad where the 1st Pz Army is engaged. While I am fighting the AI and realize
a human would be all over me I am not convinced the Germans couldn't have done this and been better off for
it.

I digress...4th Pz Army, currently sitting near Brest (so they can react either n or s of the swamps) has
6 Pz divisions and 3 PzGr divisions fully rested, supplied and at full strength. They aren't currently needed
anywhere.

My questions:

1) Did the Germans have the rail capacity to move 9 mech divisions, 3 corps and an army (in addition to all
the other troop movement going on after D-Day) to either a) Normandy or b) Italy?

2) If the rail capacity existed was it possible to move these troops to either front without being destroyed
by air power?

3) Would an additional 9 mech divisions be able to be supplied in either Normandy or Italy?

4) Would this number of divisions made a decisive difference in either theater?

5) Should I forget this nonsense, move them south to counter attack the inevitable Soviet breakthrough across
the Ingul?

(This scenario has been a blast...started on .08 and switched to .0802b around Jan '44)