[WarInEur] Barbarossa under options

[Chuck Sutherland]

Not really the Germans should keep pressure on but alternate force use to keep things up to full strength. If the optional units are in use then building stacks of 13 sp that can overrun in the initial movement phase against any 1-4 unit that is 1/2 strength should cause great problems for the Russians! Those 10 mp units are 5 mp OOS and can still overrun if the strength of the screen is low. Constant pressure along with resting some of the army will give the Germans a good late inning punch for the final push that may see the Russians bled white assuming the Germans are also using an attrition strategy and using all the Hungarian and Romanian troops as exchange fodder.

Chuck Sutherland


-----Original Message-----
From: sgminfo [mailto:sgminfo at aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:54 PM
To: Chuck Sutherland; warineur at mailman.halisp.net
Subject: Re: [WarInEur] Barbarossa under options

Chuck Sutherland wrote:
> I would think with the attrition option that one would want to move every other turn with two teams of units to help slow the bleeding from attrition.
>
> Chuck Sutherland


Logically One might think so.

Sounds the correct solution...

The only problem with that strategy is...
..it gives the Soviet player time to mobilise and get his newly raised
recruits knocked into somesort of order...

The rate of advance after the initial rush is then still limited by
supply range fromthe slowly advancing railheads...

And instead of theGermans conducting an advance on Moscow et al,
you suddenly find yourself in the situation of the Soviets conducting a
retreat,

and somewhere along the line it may mean that the initiative has somehow
passed to the Soviets...

Because of the way that the power of the OB now flexes over time and
space...things look a lot more imponderable.

Rushing Moscow before a crustal defence has a chance to gain substance
and firm up,
might actually be the lower cost option.


On the other hand...taking Moscow at the first rush, might leave a tired
and exhausted  force at the mercy of the Siberians, or any reserves that
the Soviets have formed and somehow kept back intact for a late
counterstroke...



At this point in time...I definately have an open mind about how this
might play out.


But clearly this is less formulaic at the key stages of the campaign.

During the initial test runs, no clear conclusions could be reached upon
this point, which augurs well for the longevity of the possible
permutations inherent in the model...

i.e. We may not get stereotyped so easily...


-|steve|-