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TheOne -> RE: Southern Strategy (1/4/2017 8:49:51 AM)
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Phase 1 Strategic Objectives before the 1941 Campaign begins.
The key is to push hard enough so that you will have the chance to over run enough industry to slow down the building of Red Army 2.0. As a German player if you can get the Russian player under these numbers it is a win 90% of the time with 10% draws in that mix.
HVY: 236 Need to get under: 200 or destroy 36+
AP: 370 Need to get under: 300 or destroy 70+
Looking at the map below remember that the Soviet choke point is manpower, not industry. Industry will slow the building of Russian Army, but manpower production is the choke point. There is far more manpower centers south of the Oka then north of the Oka. Come 42 manpower centers and pocketing units are the main objective in 42.
Also truck destruction is very important by 43, so the more units you can pocket and the more mobile Russian units you can route the slower The Red Armies march west will be.
Phase 6 Strategic Objectives before the 1942 Campaign begins.
If you kill enough stuff in 1942, the Red Army will collapse, or be so crippled as to not ever be able to reach Berlin in time, giving the German player a win on points. It's been done in several AARs. And reductions in manpower and industry in 1941 help create the conditions for said collapse.
Then it is a question of getting ahead of the Soviet replacement curve. A Soviet player taking in 100k manpower a turn (about what he'll get after a very strong German 41) has some real limits to content with.
The Soviet choke point is manpower, not industry.
If you had a respectable 41 Leningrad is yours and you hold a line from Kaluga, Orel, Kursk, Kharkov to Stalino. If you took Moscow the game is over already ƒº, but in most cases vs a good Russian player that should never happen. The numbers are basicly 100,000 men per turn for Russia at this point, if you can roll over most of the deep southern manpower centers that number drops below 70,000. So your basicly ¡§killing¡¨ 30,000 men per turn in 42, then in 43 the number drops off even more as the *¡¦s are as follows Man Power: 2664 42/50 43/35 44/30 45/15 so by 43 the 70k drops to 50,000 this is HUGE. So at this point your far ahead of the curve and a solid Russian offensive will not start until 1944 and the front is a 1000+ miles from Berlin, game set match.
You should have Oka north under AGN and have 16th,18th, 9th and 2nd Army holding this area. 3rd PG is Storm Trooper Army used to crack and enemy line or can be used to clear a tough area south of the Oka.
So north of the Oka your lines should be along rivers with 1 or 2 divisions in the front line and a regiment in 2nd and a FZ in the 3rd. This area generally holds until summer 44
All Infantry should be set on ready and 93% ToE and mobile units on refit and 93%.
So below the Oka and east of the front lines area 100¡¦s of manpower centers withen easy
reach which are not listed on the map.
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