How does Germany manage invasion of USSR (Barbarossa) without micromanagement?

[Baldos]

How does Germany manage invasion of USSR (Barbarossa) without micromanagement?

Any ideas? The army management AI can't do a good job without me managing almost every division by hand.

 

[Bergermeister]

You could set a field marshal or two up with full infantry armies and set spearheads with tanks and micro those a little bit. I keep a separate general with all of the motorized divisions on a frontline along with the Panzerarmeen so that they follow up but don’t attack themselves.

Edit: I don’t know how useful the attach air wing command is, but if that works well you could set it up so that everyone has at least some air support while giving the offensives the majority.

 

[seattle]

Unfortunately the battle planner struggles hard with two factors:
- very long frontlines
- inter-national frontlines

To makes matters worse, both factors apply in Barbarossa. The shared frontline with Romania messes it up completely.

I use my 5*24 infantry Heeresgruppe on army group level battle plan.
The panzers are set on army level with heavy micro for overrunning and closing pockets.

 

[SophieX]

Unfortunately the battle planner struggles hard with two factors:
- very long frontlines
- inter-national frontlines

Yep, and in my opinion there is a third factor the AI struggles with:
- Drawing a frontline; the AI deploys the troops only regarding the position of provinces; and sadly not looking for the enemy-deployment.

 

[Pzt_Kami]

I use my 5*24 infantry Heeresgruppe on army group level battle plan.
The panzers are set on army level with heavy micro for overrunning and closing pockets.

You don't need to create seperate army group for your tank armies. in my recent German campaign while attacking USSR , I used 2 Heeresgruppen with one PanzerArmee and 4 Infantry armies each. in order to create Armygroup front/batttle plan just form my infantry armies I simply deselect my tank army then going forward to create Armygroup front. This way I could still use my tank army on other tasks while infatry was attached to armygroup front.

 

[ladner]

I can only speak for my own experience, I’m lousy at micro management in the game. Unfortunately a degree of micro is necessary for Barbarossa, and that is of the mobile divisions.
My initial offensive didn’t go well compared to historical; however made a massive pocket at Kiev , once this pocket collapsed the Soviet Union began a trajectory of continuous decline. Afterwards I had three army groups on the front, which with the current game mechanics is a real mess. Would occasionally have to readjust the frontlines.

Initially I would not attack with my infantry which was all 10 Inf 20W with support ENGR and ART. Once pockets were sealed would attack. After Leningrad had fallen I attacked across the entire front including with my infantry Moscow fell then Stalingrad. Even attacked through the winter. Since logistics are not really modeled in the game did not have supply issues. I did make a big investment in infrastructure 100% to East Prussia and Lublin. So had a pathway for supply under current mechanics.

The greatest factor was that I followed Porta80’s video on the initial build. As a result all of the armored units were level 2 mediums and this was the decisive factor. I don’t think the AI even had T34s.

 

[seattle]

You don't need to create seperate army group for your tank armies. in my recent German campaign while attacking USSR , I used 2 Heeresgruppen with one PanzerArmee and 4 Infantry armies each. in order to create Armygroup front/batttle plan just form my infantry armies I simply deselect my tank army then going forward to create Armygroup front. This way I could still use my tank army on other tasks while infatry was attached to armygroup front.

I know, but I want my panzers under an FM with offensive traits and the infantry under an FM with defense and inflexible defender.