Your Barbarossa - Into the East

[DetCord12B]

I thought it might be interesting to play a wargame using third-party input where the posters here (that's you) provide the overall strategy, force usage, unit composition, political aspects, and overall decision making process with regards to Operation Barbarossa as played from the German perspective using Hearts of Iron 3 and the latest version of the BlackIce modification on Very Hard.

 

The intention of this endeavor is to see what strategies you, the community, might come up with to counter Soviet offensive and defensive measures and then myself using your advice and commentary to enact said tactical and strategic actions. So plan accordingly. Could Barbarossa have succeeded? You tell me.

 

Current State of the Reich:

I more or less followed the historical outcomes. Others not so much.

 

 

Utilizing political pressure and coups I managed to incorporate Finland and then Spain into the Axis powers. Yes, both of these aspects are fiction, but they work. The invasion of Yugoslavia as it was with regards to historical terms was mitigated via semi-autonomy.

 

 

 

Edited November 28, 2019 by DetCord12B