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Shalkai -> RE: Strategy (11/19/2018 3:06:46 AM)
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Things don't look like they'll be great for you on the north half of the map. Hummm..
North of Moscow, I can't see driving further straight north working out well. Your railhead is close though. From Vyshny, could push either NW towards Volkhov, add in a little push from Novgorod, see if you can pocket a little. Or, from Vyshny, push SE a little, threaten Moscow more. Either way you have most of the Valdai hills, get infantry digging in to good defense terrain as things allow.
South of Moscow, Oka river is a big problem. Going farther east than Ryazan won't help much, any gains would be lost over winter. Lots of swamps north of Ryazan makes advancing a crawl even when weather is clear. Pushing through Kaluga on north side of river threatens Moscow just as much, uses less vehicles and supplies, and will be easier to defend in winter since rail line is so close.
Southern half of map, Rostov is a good focus. A panzer group can capture it, then get in all the mountain divisions you can spare from Moscow area to try and hold it.
Then come spring, it'll be focus time. Depending on how winter goes and HLYA builds up, could look at A: Leningrad, B: grand double envelopment of Moscow, or C: Rostov-Caucasus. I'd camo a panzer group or even two in woods/heavy woods well back from the front, maybe split up a div into regiments so it looks like a corps while the rest of the corps is 40 hexes away, stuff like that. See what you can keep concealed from the Soviets about your spring plans.
It's gonna be tough I'm sure. You got Crimea on a silver plate, but with the units saved Soviet has a real bastion around Leningrad. Fun times!
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