Q-Ball
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Joined: 6/25/2002 From: Chicago, Illinois Status: offline
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Some good comments there ComradeP, I appreciate it. RE: HQ limits, good tip. That means 3 fully-loaded Corps, plus another division. It's still tough, because I will actually have 44 total Corps HQs (33 Inf, and 11 Panzer), and 12 Armies (4 Panzer, 8 Infantry). So, that means some HQs are going to serve under foreign command, or some Army HQs are going to be overloaded. Or both. I am sending at least 1, maybe 2 Corps HQ to serve under Finnish leadership, which should lift some burden. A few divisions will be mixed-in with Romanian or Hungarian formations. Otherwise, I plan on having Armies in AGC overloaded a bit. RE: STATIC: I hear you, but I think the benefits outweight the risks, provided I keep APs on hand. I think if the Germans static much of the front, you better keep 100 APs in the pool at all times, in order to free them. Once I make all these org changes, I expect to begin accumulating surplus, as I won't have to think about building fort zones until Summer (when I will start in AGC). I am already in a pretty good place with leaders. Fall Turkis (Case Turquoise): I think that advice on Rostov is sound, and seals it for me. The initial target will be Rostov. 1st Panzer Army is gathered around the Donbas, and is in pretty sound shape. I will add a fresh infantry Corps, and use the Snow turns to push over the Mius. I also plan a SNOW attack around OREL, mostly to get the Russians off the rail line I have there, and force them back on Tula. But in the Summer, I plan the following stages: -Initial Attack toward Rostov, with the objective of taking Rostov and securing the Don/Donets area as good defensive terrain for later. -Attack north of Voroshiovgrad, toward the great space south of Boguchar. The objective here is flanking the Donets if I want to continue east, and threaten Stalingrad. I don't really want to take, and I certainly don't want to attempt to hold, Stalingrad. But I would like to force him to evacuate the industry; that would be a nice bonus. -If this Southern Offensive is successful, he will be rushing reinforcements to secure the Don. If that is the case, I will shift the attack north toward Voronezh, and attempt to take that. There is a good chance we won't get to Phase 2, but you never know. FORCES: To accomplish this, I need to beef-up 11th, 17th, and 6th Armies. We are going to remove from these armies many divisions that are depleted and/or have poor morale, and send them to the CENTER and NORTH, swapping them with better formations, and also creating a small reserve up there in case the Russians cause some trouble. Their places will be taken by fresh formations from Germany, which will have morale in the 70-75 range, and full strength. We also have our "Sturm Corps" of very high morale Infantry saved all winter, and a "Baby Sturm Corps" of 4 more 80-ish morale infantry divisions. For the MOBILE forces, I am leaving a single Panzer Corps in AGC, and nothing in AGN. As Panzer Divisions lose AFVs in our summer offensive, I will probably send them north to refit and keep an eye on things. The total heading into Summer is approx. 21 Panzer and 13 Mot Divs (give or take, depending on date); I will leave 2 Panzer and 2 Mot Divs up north, plus all the SS Motorized Brigades, and the rest will be on the attack. That's roughly 28 Mobile Divisions in 7 Corps, organized in 3 Panzer Armies.
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