A few more tentative pointers, disregard if you already have moved past them by now: 1. At this stage, with most of his panzers off map, the weather turning and his supply dogshit, you didn't need a continuous frontline. In fact this made your defense weaker as he picks off weaker units, harvesting morale and decreasing yours (more on that below). What's he going to do, drive between a 1-2 hex gap between your armies to encircle them with infantry divs in snow? That'd just make his forces even more vulnerable to encirclements. More force concentration, accepting some gaps to double or triple stack units could have served you well. 2. Now I'm not sure how this works in WiTE 2 now, but in WiTE 1, morale was king. You gained morale by refitting well behind the lines (up to national morale, something like 8-10 hexes behind) or by winning *offensive* battles (which could increase it beyond NM). You could lose it by being isolated, supply shortages, losing defensive battles (retreating), routing and so on. Morale had and may still have an outsized effect on CV values. For example, a division at 50% ToE with 90 morale could easily have vastly better CV than a division at 100% with 35-40 morale. This is how his panzer divisions have such good CV despite probably being attrited to shit and out of supply. By taking advantageous attacks across the lines you are decreasing those units morale, which for Germans are hard-earned beyond NM units while improving your own. This is why casualties in battle (read here, not encirclements, those are different) don't really matter (up to a point of course). It's not about the 100-200 Germans you kill when retreating his units, it's about the point of morale you may have cost him. 2.1. Victories, beyond their morale benefits, also increased the likelihood of promotion to Guard units, not sure if that's still the case. Oh yeah, when you plan your ground attacks or defenses, turning on the morale indicator (coloured arrow in the corner of a counter) instead of supply is probably better. 3. Your goal for your winter offensive should have been to hammer the German infantry across the line to decrease their morale, while trying to create encirclements or penetrations. The Germans are really stretched in winter 1941, probably even more in your game. If you punch a hole with the infantry and infiltrate with cavalry corps (this is why they're so good), he has to either pinch of the salient with the risk of failing, or pull back to save his forces. When he pulls back, he loses a lot of entrenchment since it's very hard to dig in blizzard, making him even more vulnerable to the next round of attacks. By attacking a lot and earning morale, you can create a cadre of "elite" (by Soviet standards) units that'll serve you well in 1942. These morale dynamics may have been revised in WiTE 2 however so don't take it as cash money. 4. Rostov was a prime opportunity and by allowing his forces to link up around Krasnodar, you released him of the danger that his forces may become isolated and surrender when attacked. The lack of supply if he has to supply via Kerch will help him, but it's not as much an existential danger. You probably should have committed a lot more resources to prevent that link-up from happening, but I understand it's been a rough game. 5. I'm pretty sure you know this, but if you can hold off on using cavalry/mech/armoured forces in battles and use them to exploit instead, it pays dividends.
I'm learning a lot of this through playing. Is painful but I'm enjoying it. Morale has been something I'm only now understanding. I messed up a lot in 41 hoping to not do so bad in 42.
@@kevinmilligan917 I think your capacity to fight will be destroyed in 1942, I'm sorry to say. That's okay though, take it as a learning game and engage with some of the systems you may not have understood so far, it'll make you much more prepared for the next one.
you could get port supply......instead of running completely
A few more tentative pointers, disregard if you already have moved past them by now:
1. At this stage, with most of his panzers off map, the weather turning and his supply dogshit, you didn't need a continuous frontline. In fact this made your defense weaker as he picks off weaker units, harvesting morale and decreasing yours (more on that below). What's he going to do, drive between a 1-2 hex gap between your armies to encircle them with infantry divs in snow? That'd just make his forces even more vulnerable to encirclements. More force concentration, accepting some gaps to double or triple stack units could have served you well.
2. Now I'm not sure how this works in WiTE 2 now, but in WiTE 1, morale was king. You gained morale by refitting well behind the lines (up to national morale, something like 8-10 hexes behind) or by winning *offensive* battles (which could increase it beyond NM). You could lose it by being isolated, supply shortages, losing defensive battles (retreating), routing and so on. Morale had and may still have an outsized effect on CV values. For example, a division at 50% ToE with 90 morale could easily have vastly better CV than a division at 100% with 35-40 morale. This is how his panzer divisions have such good CV despite probably being attrited to shit and out of supply. By taking advantageous attacks across the lines you are decreasing those units morale, which for Germans are hard-earned beyond NM units while improving your own. This is why casualties in battle (read here, not encirclements, those are different) don't really matter (up to a point of course). It's not about the 100-200 Germans you kill when retreating his units, it's about the point of morale you may have cost him.
2.1. Victories, beyond their morale benefits, also increased the likelihood of promotion to Guard units, not sure if that's still the case. Oh yeah, when you plan your ground attacks or defenses, turning on the morale indicator (coloured arrow in the corner of a counter) instead of supply is probably better.
3. Your goal for your winter offensive should have been to hammer the German infantry across the line to decrease their morale, while trying to create encirclements or penetrations. The Germans are really stretched in winter 1941, probably even more in your game. If you punch a hole with the infantry and infiltrate with cavalry corps (this is why they're so good), he has to either pinch of the salient with the risk of failing, or pull back to save his forces. When he pulls back, he loses a lot of entrenchment since it's very hard to dig in blizzard, making him even more vulnerable to the next round of attacks. By attacking a lot and earning morale, you can create a cadre of "elite" (by Soviet standards) units that'll serve you well in 1942. These morale dynamics may have been revised in WiTE 2 however so don't take it as cash money.
4. Rostov was a prime opportunity and by allowing his forces to link up around Krasnodar, you released him of the danger that his forces may become isolated and surrender when attacked. The lack of supply if he has to supply via Kerch will help him, but it's not as much an existential danger. You probably should have committed a lot more resources to prevent that link-up from happening, but I understand it's been a rough game.
5. I'm pretty sure you know this, but if you can hold off on using cavalry/mech/armoured forces in battles and use them to exploit instead, it pays dividends.
I'm learning a lot of this through playing. Is painful but I'm enjoying it. Morale has been something I'm only now understanding. I messed up a lot in 41 hoping to not do so bad in 42.
@@kevinmilligan917 I think your capacity to fight will be destroyed in 1942, I'm sorry to say. That's okay though, take it as a learning game and engage with some of the systems you may not have understood so far, it'll make you much more prepared for the next one.
Do you think that your "enemy" is watching your videos? He could get a lot of data from them.
Most turns Ive already gotten back before I post but if so then I'm definitely losing lol.