Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx

I think you are being unduly cautious here. These rivers aren't going to stay frozen forever, you need to get some attacks going. Those Romanians are as tasty a target as any, I doubt you'll find something better.

You've already waited until January and lost a good month of winter campaigning. (I would have started attacking in December with whatever I had in hand and done my corps conversions on the fly.) Those reserves need to get into the action and trained up ASAP.

As for getting them cut off, just advance cautiously, and only with rifle units. Don't let your mobile forces ever end the turn next to enemy lines. Not for a while, anyways. They should scoot to the rear at the end of the Soviet turn and be in a position to break up any Axis attacks.

The biggest mistake a lot of Soviet players are making in this mid war period is prematurely introducing mobile forces into breakthrough operations. They haven't got the chops to do this against a good German defense. As unexciting as this may be, the Soviet has to settle with gradual crumbling attacks for quite some time.

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I continue to have a LOT of men in the pool - over 1 million. I've been cycling units in and out of the front line and putting them on refit and this has slowed the rate of rise of men in the pool a bit but this still seems like way too many men to be sitting around in the pool....

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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx

James, that's very clever about the new brigade morale boost. I hadn't noticed that.

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ORIGINAL: Bletchley_Geek

Not to mention that bit of tweaking Rifle Bdes so they have Morale level similar to that of early Guards. The Rifle Bdes the Red Army deployed in the Autumn 1941 - Spring 1942 have more to do with the need to mobilize fresh forces quickly than anything else.

That's pouring gasoline on the Axis/Soviet fanboy flame wars. It will indeed provide the Soviet player with a too easy to exploit mechanism to ensure one can have a too high quality Red Army in 1942 (what happens when you merge two 50 Morale Rifle Bdes? You get a 50 Morale Rifle Division. It will probably lose that edge as soon as it "sees the elephant". But that only will happen when they lose).

The Rifle Bde in the Red Army was either a "special purpose" unit or a training cadre. As the situation deteriorated so badly after the Smolensk and Kiev battles, the STAVKA had no other option than field the training cadre organizations directly. Not because it was a more efficient or flexible unit...

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(what happens when you merge two 50 Morale Rifle Bdes? You get a 50 Morale Rifle Division. It will probably lose that edge as soon as it "sees the elephant". But that only will happen when they lose).

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I personally am surpised that 2by3 has dropped the ball again and not as BG put it, "seen the elephant" in the room.

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ORIGINAL: gingerbread

How is your supply stock? There is a thread about HI and you have even less HI left than Baelfiin in said thread. 6M men could be just about your limit.

Don't know how to adapt to that - maybe favour many battles with casualties where your man power pool will give you an edge. Easier said than done, I know, but I predict you will have difficulties supplying a much larger army than you have.

Could be an idea to make an inventory of just how many air bases and other non-combat units that you really need.

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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx

You are more than fine. Over 300% global stocks.

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ORIGINAL: gingerbread

Yeah, you're OK. 50k supply surplus after production should be enough. Production will hike each year as well.

Vehicles are still short, but numbers available will most likely catch up with need in 10 or so turns.

Excellent ARM numbers - how many Artillery Divisions are you planning to field?