<t> Cheers - thanks Miljkovics. I think I have been focused too much on the HWM VPs and that whilst I have surrounded and destroyed many Soviet units on the way to hitting the 575 HWM in 41, it is obviously not enough and perhaps has over extended the German Army. I will try the approach you and ...

Many thanks loki100. I will look at this. My 1941 strategy has been dictated by the concern from my experience in my early games, that trying to pass the 575 HWM in 1942 looks impossible, so I go for it in 41. Perhaps I need to rethink that. Thanks again.

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<t> I have played 10 Barbarossa campaigns now and have got to the point where where I have no problem in exceeding the 575 victory points needed to continue past 1942, normally capturing Rhvez, Kharkov, Kursk, Kalinin and Stalino ( I have never managed to capture Rostov!). I get pushed back quite a ...