The situation is ghastly and I do what I can to restore the player morale. I try some local counterattacks, at least I don't suffer harsh winter penalties, but attacking in a blizzard is a lottery. Sometimes they work
sometimes they go phut
Supply seems to be key in the 41/42 winter. I have various strategic stockpiles scattered around. It's taken till Christmas but keeping Minsk on priory 4 since capturing it on turn 1, it has finally filled without the need to resorting to a super depot.
This 60,000 tons cache will be very useful to bleed to the front lines when supply is required.
A further useful stratagem to help supply a little is the Nikolaev run
There is a rail bottleneck between Odessa and Nikolaev. It's a short run by air and a perfect rout for those otherwise useless Go 266 (or whatever they are) which have a range of only 100 miles or so. Both airports are level 3, thanks to some preplanning, which limits (supposedly) operational losses on the planes. Running this route every turn can bring a short 1000 tons of supply across. It will cost a dozen (or two planes
