Looks like Super-Hungary and Super-Romania will soon be a reality!
For now, I can't prevent it. If I defeat Barbarossa, they will keep only what I will want them to keep. They should not need more than dying for the Reich to be satisfied!
Hah, strange, in my games there is no super Hungary or Romania as their territorial expansions suddenly stops and German military occupation starts from about the Rowne-Nikolaev line eastward.
Lucifer, your progress is simply awe-inspiring in terms of territory-but are you encircling enough Russian units? I am worried that huge reinforcements will suddenly appear east of Kiev and around Leningrad and Moscow. Perhaps if you move fast you can encircle all those east of Moscow? Well, we shall see.
I can imagine the following reasons:
-You have not created the General Government, so the territories captured South of it don't go to the adjacent Axis country which is not a puppet--> they go to Hungary.
-You have kept Rumania as a puppet. So, since there is no other Axis 'non-puppeted' country adjacent to the captured provinces, they go to Rumania's master, in this case Germany. Since Bessarabia is a core to Rumania, the provinces are 'freed' by Germany and given to Rumania but not the other conquests.
--> So, basically, if I had released General Government and removed its puppet status, I could have create a colossal General Government.
Thank you for the remark regarding my progress, but I don't think that it is exceptional for now. Am I encircling enough units? No, not now, not after a week. It is my goal but I don't want to botch this part. My strength is my mobility. I want to bypass the red INFs but I don't want to close the pockets right after. I want to keep breaking through and bypass another empty province before pivoting and closing the pocket. That way, the INFs won't be able to engage my MOTs before losing their supply. Incidentally, it also means that I am trying to engage Soviet mobile units whenever it is required to fix them.
Then, 2 thing will happen (at least that's the plan):
-the pocketed units will start charging in every directions to break the pocket. But they will be far enough from their air support that the Luftwaffe will be able to break them unopposed by bombing them un-entrenched.
-my mobile units the farthest in the East won't attack the pocketed troops from behind but will keep moving Eastward to widen the buffer and prevent a too-quick arrival from rescuing armies.
It will take months for the 2-300 missing divisions to arrive for the Soviets, at that time it will be too late ... so 80 days to Moscow.
Hmm, we will see.
I always get problem in wif attacking sov do you rotate division while in battle ? i have no idea on how to attack properly by 2 or 3 provinces forward all my units start retreating they dont have org
I am not sure that I understand your issue. Do you mean that you give to your units their orders for a several-province deep attack, like the one I have displayed in this
update? What I displayed was just for the AAR, but none of my units had actually orders for more that 2 provinces. If you do more, the arrivals of the units will become more and more staggered and eventually the enemy will be able to defeat them individually.
Here is how I proceed:
-where I want to breakthough, I assign bombers to support the mobile forces.
-the mobiles forces receive their orders for a 2-province deep attack. That way, they won't have to wait for 24h before being able to resume a move
IF this move is an attack as well (if it is just a move, they don't have to wait 24h). If it is an attack, the mobile forces won't have the support of the following INF yet, that's why you want to have air support. When your INF arrive, they will support decisively your mobile forces attacking the enemy 2nd lines if that is not the case. It also means that your mobile forces will already have done part of the road to their target.
-when your mobile forces have won a fight, and unless they are re-engaged by the enemy during their move, then they will need probably at least 24 hours to reach their target. This means that you will be able to update your orders to them and add an additional province to their order, based on your air recon. That way, your mobile forces (when exploiting a breakthrough) will have very often their orders for a 2-province deep penetration.
Is this answering your question?
Sure!
Thanks! (but it may be a little provocative assuming that I could do it
)
I am short of available updates and I may not have the time to use the material ready tonight to write a new one.
