I don't think there are enough troops to secure the victory in time, or to hold the place if the victory was gained. But Myth may pull off a surprise.
I know from prior experience that Myth goes with the gut on officer assignment, and so long as that works then do it.
After many hours of play-testing I've come to dividing generals into two groups, namely staff and field officers. A staff officer is one with no bonuses of any kind, and they are best posted at army, group, front, and/or theater levels.
The task of building a good core of staff officers is different for every country. Italy has a good number of staff officers, but they rarely see service on the front. It's simply a case of getting them into the fight at the division level. Once they've achived experience level three or above they can be promoted to staff work. In the mean time, Italy should utilize its many old guard as position holders until more experienced staff become available.
Field officers are those with additional skills (offensive, defensive, etc.), and they are always most effective at the division or corps levels. Even so, once a field officer reaches experience level of six or seven it seems fitting to promote them to senior staff (sob).
I hope the above makes sense.
O ye of little faith. It's still only February. I'll be surprised if the RE aren't in Moscow by June (at the latest, and only that slow because they're mostly leg infantry), and the Soviets will capitulate not long after, as the expanding Italian presence swallows up city after city. There isn't very much past Stalingrad, and the NU of the Rodina will have been eroded by constant, widespread fighting on her soil for months.Can Myth shatter, take, hold and occupy the Soviet Union? No.
You're probably right, there. The Western Powers will still seek the downfall of the Reich, and however much he might wish otherwise, he cannot cut those ties, even if he 'saves the world from Communism'.While I expect grand battlefield triumphs this year, the war will not end.
Eventually, this loosened up things on the western front, but the Germans were not the ones to make the organized push. It was the Hungarians. They ended up catching entrenched Russian forces who had pushed deep into Romania in an enormous pocket, and crushed an entire army group, I'm guessing maybe 250k soldiers, in one go.
After that, it was smooth sailing. The Hungarians ended up waltzing into Moscow, and then annexed Russia. So, this is what the map looked like at the end of it.
I am never going to go to war with Hungarians, ever again.So be glad that the Hungarians aren't in the axis right now, or you could end up with Hungarians Russia. :rofl:
I bet it was the Germans exp forces handed to the Hungarians. The AI has a nasty habbit of doing just this. Problem is that most of the time the Axis minor who gets the "honour" of receiving most of the Wermacht has no means of suplling such an army.