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Is there a need to move the OKH North, Center, South units?

or is it recommended to leave them where they are?

Thanks!!!

Yes, you definitely need to move at least the army groups forward. I put OKH in Warsaw but move forward if doing well. Command range for Army Groups HQ's is 45 hexes or less (90 for OKH) so subordinate units not in that range negatively affected. Also, you should attach your construction units to them or OKH so they can repair rail hexes over much more of the map. The range of repair for those units in armies and corps is only a few hexes.

There's complexity to anything in WitE.
Straight-forward, by rule, the closer to any 'activity' (any action by any unit requiring a die roll) a relevant HQ is to the activity, the better the chance that the leader can influence the die roll.
But there's a tradeoff, such that there's not any use in having AGN or AGS within a few hexes of activity.

As a rule of thumb, Corps/Army HQs should be closer than Front/Army Group
Also it is worth remembering that German HQs caught in the open in first winter get hit by the same first-winter rules, so it's a VERY bad idea to have OKH/army group HQs out of cities at all in that time frame.

I move AGN/AGC/AGS(AGA/AGB) withing about 15 hexes of the action.

Thanks for the help guys!

I move them but always do so reluctantly because I was under the impression that they use so much of your transport (truck) capacity? No?

Others may disagree but the higher level hq's I only move by rail. They are already motorized so the trucks are organic in the unit. Any movement of large (motorized) units like that destroys or damages trucks that will be replaced from the pool leaving less for supply and other uses.