ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
Well, outside of Moscow and Leningrad he can do whatever he wants [:)] I will not win the war on 1941 so my biggest priority is to survive. I placed most of my strategic reserves in front of the most important enemy units: Army Group Center and between him and Moscow [:)] My strategy will be simple (until mud season): most of my forces --among them, like the 80% of the STAVKA strategic reserves-- will always face and try to block his most aforementioned dangerous units. Now I don't know what he's planning. If he sends part of the AGC Panzers to Ukraine or South Russia... OH YEAAAAH!!!! I wish he did that! [:D]
I mean, I will not divert my strategic reserves from this vital mission: whatever happens, do survive (in the Center that is, I don't care at all about Kiev or Kursk, I mean in 1941).
In fact in my Southwest Front I have many many divisions (in this front he could NOT trap my forces), and I've been thinking about sending maybe 15 or 20 divisions from there to my essential front (Moscow). But I don't think my situation is desperate so maybe I don't need these divisions. But they are there and I could call them if necessary. This, along with the STAVKA reserves (on the next 3 or 4 turns I will get like 30 divisions) makes a huge force [:)]
In a nutshell my plan is really simple. It's not even mine. It's what the Soviets did [8D]
EDITED: now you see his Panzers south of that big mass of troops. But on previous turns they were in front of them. He has changed the direction of his attack, which is good for me.
I fully understand you. I'm very much doing the same thing as you, concentrating in front of his perceived spearheads, and what I am seeing on my map looks a lot like what I see on yours (although he's not just leaving a screen to check my Leningrad and Northwestern Fronts.
It's good, because you have got one or two turns of pause. But fighting a mobile battle in the summer of 1941 there, around Bryansk, it's something that's gonna be though. You have plenty of forces around Moscow, and from the perception I've got from reading your AAR, you're more than willing to press really hard on the left flank of such an advance.
The problem is that the RKKA forces in the Ukraine will be placed between a rock - AGS - and a hard place - AGC. The stage would be set for the kind of decisive battle in the open the Germans want and need.
He's just leaving a screen on the Leningrad and North Western sectors, which is also good for you since you could be able to mount spoiling attacks on those sectors. But if he's moved all those troops - not only panzers, also infantry - and adopted a defensive posture there, well, he's clearly up to something. I wouldn't keep much troops there in the marshes of the lower Dnepr. I would set up a strategic reserve east of Dneproprovotsk (sp?).
Good luck! [:)]
PS: I really love your signature [:D]
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