thedoctorking
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I think my German offensive was not well done. I decided to strike for Moscow with the two Army Group Center tank armies. I alternated turns doing a HQBU for one and attacking with the other, pushing a long snake of tanks down the "dry road to Moscow". I did a number of small encirclements but didn't get any really large pockets. Also, it seemed like I was perennially out from under my air support and the Russian bombers were attacking my armor with impunity. If I slowed down to let the flyboys catch up, then I was slowing down. Another thing I did as the Russians was surround armored spearheads whenever I could. On several occasions, those racing tanks ahead of my main infantry force ground to an unscheduled halt for lack of fuel because they were isolated. Russian counterattacks against isolated armored units were rarely successful but also the German tank strength declined as we advanced. Ultimately, the "Reserve Front" trenches in front of Moscow pretty much stopped us (though we did manage to capture the "West Moscow" hex). By this point, ominous masses of Russian troops on both flanks of the salient counter-attacked, and then a turn or two later the blizzard started and I was forced to withdraw. Now, my Germans are 15 hexes to the west about to lose Smolensk. I did have the Russians evacuate the Moscow factories, so they will lose some production while they reset out in the Urals. But there are huge numbers of Russians, enough to have armies deployed along the summer main line of resistance from Rostov to Moscow digging trenches and still attack everywhere along the front. I'm playing on to see if I can get an offensive going in the summer of 1942, but it doesn't look good for the Aryan volk and their lebensraum.
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