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SGHunt -> RE: OKH Plan 1942 - Alpha AAR (6/7/2010 10:53:02 PM)
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A rambling thought:
The rail line that Kleist has just cut is the last in the area for many miles to the North (you have to go as far as Murom). But from the East the Russians can simply supply overland, around your PzG Division, can't they? So the Russians are not much worse off in terms of supply than Kleist's own forward units. My assumption is that the mud will make the supply situation much worse for both of them?
So I'm still trying to work out why the wide swing to the North East rather than cutting straight up to the Oka? I am all the time thinking of massing the armour to support Hoth for the final push on Moscow, but maybe that is not the best option. I know that this is a much more threatening jump off point for another, even larger encirclement when the frosts come, but surely there will be a new front facing you by then? Ahhh, I see it now - still drawing the reserves and replacements away from the main Moscow front.
(And this is where I disagree with Flavius about the AI) the Russian 'player' must respond to Kleist or risk losing another army to encirclement on both banks of the Oka. We'll see....
All this is assuming that Kleist's panzers are in supply and remain so when the mud comes.
Good to see the strong Rumanian divisions down South - the Russians, I believe, always rated the Rumanian infantryman as a solid (defensive) fighter. They just lacked the heavy weapons to hold off the Russian armour.
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