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ORIGINAL: TomaszPudlo

Clearly The O.K.H. knew nothing of WitE's notion of combat value. Why else would they assign Totenkopf directly to 4th Panzer Group, when they could have assigned it to LVI Panzer Corps, thus increasing it's CV from 23 to 34? The admin cost for this is zero, by the way.

Any other micro-management ideas that will increase the CV?

I leave it under 4th to pocket units for 2 turns then put it under LVI for free.

The dead 40+k russias killed easly because they are surrounded is much better then C&C.

WitE during 41 and 42 is about pocketing Russian units. They are easyer to KIA and you KIA all of them for little loses.

As Germany if you have a poor turn 1-4 your done for the war. You will never recover.

1) Pour a dram of Lagavulin.

2) Open the editor.

3) Give yourself a thousand AP and save.

4) Open the the scenario with the extra AP.

5) Move all AA regiments from German cities to the O.K.H.

6) Reassign 9th Army to Army Group North.

7) Replace Kesselring with Bulowius. Replace von Kluge with Kesselring. Replace Halder with von Kluge as chief of the O.K.H.

8) Replace all commanders under 5.4, including army level. Use savescumming. Once you reload, the AP will fall to 500. It's therefore important you move the AA regiments and reassign 9th Army prior to replacing the commanders.

9) Transfer all recon aircraft from Luftwaffe airbases to army airbases. Colour code all Luftwaffe airbases containing level bombers green (0,200,0), containing dive bombers dark grey (100,100,100) and containing transport planes dark green (0,100,0). The fighters stay white, except for the fighter bombers. Change their mission type to bomber and mark them green. That way you'll know exactly where you have your stuff.

10) Don't hesitate to move your airbases closer to the border. The following airbases should be hit with dive bombers: Siaulai, Kaunas, Vilnius, Lapy, Sudovaya Vishnya and Lvov. That way you'll be picking ripe cherries. ("Vishnya" is Russian for Cherry.) Use your level bombers for long-range raids. The bases around Kiev are especially rich in cherries.

11) Start sipping your Lagavulin.

You left out moving all construction units back to AG HQs or OKH and sorting out some of the other SU mess before you reload as part of stage 5

You guys are no fun... this game plain vanilla teaches schadenfreude to the German player. (Excuse my Deutsch if needed.)