Ger Strategy Summer 1943 - Stalingrad or Maikop?

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matchwood
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Ger Strategy Summer 1943 - Stalingrad or Maikop?

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It's early summer, 1943 as Ger. Have just completed and cleared a large encirculement of Sov troops at Rostov. Should I go East to Stalingrad and cut the rail line to the East of the city? Or, should I g south and take oil centres such as Maikop?

Basically, what would cripptle Sov more - reducing supplies to the South or taking the oil centres? Would cutting the rail line to the south make a big difference or would the south still be supplied (at a reduced level) via ports?

Advice appreciated!
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timmyab
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RE: Ger Strategy Summer 1943 - Stalingrad or Maikop?

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Oil is not important in the game unfortunately.
Baku is a supply source so cutting rail only stops troop movements.
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RE: Ger Strategy Summer 1943 - Stalingrad or Maikop?

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Overall frontline and OOB would be useful. Oil doesn't matter nor does supy usually. You should go for the manpower centers.
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RE: Ger Strategy Summer 1943 - Stalingrad or Maikop?

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Take Stalingrad and cut the RR from Baku up the Caspian Sea to Stalingrad. The port in-between becomes useless.

This really hurts Russian positioning all along the rr line from Stalingrad to Baku as the Russians end up with very long supply lines.
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