This scenario was played to test whether or not the germans has become superstrong in the shift from COW to TOAW3. It was agreed that the germans would not activate the 11th army, and that no attacks were allowed with units below BTN size.
Basic battle plan.
The germans have the intitiative at the beginning and need to achieve a sudden death victory or prepare for a massive counterattack from turn 30+ and onwards. To achieve the sudden death either Baku or Yerevan must be reached and taken. Both cities lies beyond the caucasus range. The soviets gets enormous reinforcements, but mostly to the North of Stalingrad.
I plan to go for the sudden death while simultaneously taking Stalingrad and prepare for the counterattack, should my southern foray fail. The 6th army will go straight for the Don and Stalingrad. 4th PzArmee will advance towards Stalingrad between the Don and Volga rivers. Pz Korps Geyr will advance on Astrakhan reinforced by a single INFDIV.
The remaining forces will head south along the raillines. Once the Kuban river is breached I will split my forces in two and let them proceed down the black sea and caspian coasts respectively. I plan to flank the caucasus at both ends and let my mountain divisions take the passes at Alistrachu and Klukor. I plan to keep a heavy division bac to exploit this opening. Hopefully my two pincers will meet at either yerevan or baku.
Execution.
I plan to advance across a broad front in the north. Enemy resistance will be met head on with plenty of artillery support. Losses will most likely be heavy, but time is of the essence and the further back I can push my opponent the better.
In the south I plan to advance along the roads. Recon units will scout ahead and my heavy units (MtZ and Pz) will only move as far as was scouted the turn before. In this fashion I hope to keep my heavies well fed and ready for decisive action once the MLR(s) is reached and breached. My scouts will probably take losses but that is what they are meant to do. Enemy concentrations will be flanked and surrounded and then dealt with by follow up forces. The flanks will be swept by CAV and miscellaneous units such as FLAK, AT and Minors. Dug in armour will be dislodged by the luftwaffe using direct attacks with Stukas. On turn one and two I will try to confine the red air force to the transcaucasian airfields with lots of airfield attacks. Otherwise I will rest my bombers so that they can be used in the key battles to come. I plan to use the Bomb Stalingrad option to breach the Terek River and take Grozny and, and use Bomb Baku option to take Baku.
Basic battle plan.
The germans have the intitiative at the beginning and need to achieve a sudden death victory or prepare for a massive counterattack from turn 30+ and onwards. To achieve the sudden death either Baku or Yerevan must be reached and taken. Both cities lies beyond the caucasus range. The soviets gets enormous reinforcements, but mostly to the North of Stalingrad.
I plan to go for the sudden death while simultaneously taking Stalingrad and prepare for the counterattack, should my southern foray fail. The 6th army will go straight for the Don and Stalingrad. 4th PzArmee will advance towards Stalingrad between the Don and Volga rivers. Pz Korps Geyr will advance on Astrakhan reinforced by a single INFDIV.
The remaining forces will head south along the raillines. Once the Kuban river is breached I will split my forces in two and let them proceed down the black sea and caspian coasts respectively. I plan to flank the caucasus at both ends and let my mountain divisions take the passes at Alistrachu and Klukor. I plan to keep a heavy division bac to exploit this opening. Hopefully my two pincers will meet at either yerevan or baku.
Execution.
I plan to advance across a broad front in the north. Enemy resistance will be met head on with plenty of artillery support. Losses will most likely be heavy, but time is of the essence and the further back I can push my opponent the better.
In the south I plan to advance along the roads. Recon units will scout ahead and my heavy units (MtZ and Pz) will only move as far as was scouted the turn before. In this fashion I hope to keep my heavies well fed and ready for decisive action once the MLR(s) is reached and breached. My scouts will probably take losses but that is what they are meant to do. Enemy concentrations will be flanked and surrounded and then dealt with by follow up forces. The flanks will be swept by CAV and miscellaneous units such as FLAK, AT and Minors. Dug in armour will be dislodged by the luftwaffe using direct attacks with Stukas. On turn one and two I will try to confine the red air force to the transcaucasian airfields with lots of airfield attacks. Otherwise I will rest my bombers so that they can be used in the key battles to come. I plan to use the Bomb Stalingrad option to breach the Terek River and take Grozny and, and use Bomb Baku option to take Baku.
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