Thank you Avindian for the quick intervention.
To anybody, what had happened won't be tolerated, and I have no qualm to report troublemakers myself. So please, don't break the rules here. Should this happen again, please also let me deal with it; no need to expose yourself to a reprimand. Just PM me.
Chapter closed
I apologize for not updating this last week as intended, RL didn't allow it. But you can expect a daily update next week.
those almost 500 divs seem just on abwehrs paper... it seems kinda too easy
Kinda! :laugh:
The sheer amount of tanks and equipment the USSR was able to produce in real life (around 40 000 tanks!) was absolutely horrifying, yet still the Germans managed to somehow stand up against them with less than 4000 tanks.
Operation barbarossa may have been the greatest mistake in military history but the Germans still managed to make it seem like a huge success, if you compare the losses
I won't share the 'huge success' gist because they have been ultimately defeated, but I perfectly see your point. These last years, there has been quite a lot of writing showing that what was perceived before as military fumbles were not. Before, the orders of no retreat in front of Moscow was a huge mistake; now it saved the Wehrmacht. Before, stopping the push to Moscow was another strategic failure; now it is more and more commonly admitted that it would not have been possible anyway with an entire Soviet armies around Kiev (and which have been destroyed when the German offensive shifted to the South) Etc. No to say that the German made no mistakes, but everybody did.
Wars are not won by causing losses to the enemy; Germany had pretty good kill ratio in the East up to ~1944, but it still lost.
80 "new" divs, that's scary. Hopefully it's just an Abwehr mistake or the German generals overestimate the strength of the enemy to make their victories seem bigger and more glorious
Oh, and I knew you'd use Fallschirmjägers to close the pocket. Good, good.
50% of the German losses happened during the last year of the war.
If Stalin want to send more divisions to die for their country, I am fine with that. Albeit I am afraid that +80 is a very low estimate
I wanted to use the Fallschirmjägers for Operation K. I won't :sad: Not now.
I stand corrected; I failed to see the envisioned encirclement of the Byelorussian front. Forgive me for my lack of vision, Fuhrer >.> Perhaps I should transfer from strategic observation to a command of one of Stumpff's squadrons?
Nonsense! The Abwehr are being fooled just as Stalin was by liars in the Bolshevik ranks seeking to inflate the Soviet ego. Methinks the rank and file operatives embedded in the Soviet armed forces have gotten too friendly with their commissars; when we pick them back up after shredding their units, they are due for a *thorough* debriefing. How would the Soviets be sending 81 divisions at us, are they only arming half of them and training a quarter?
Unsinn, ich sagt!
Dofon, I missed your ass-kisser comments!
Hmm,hmm... Is this were you did your strategic observation?
Well, according to Abwehr, the Soviets had apparently started to rearm since 1917, methinks that stopping them was overdue. Now, you may be correct, it may be nonsense.
