Minsk Campaign - Balanced?

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The German player in Minsk has one huge advantage over his historical counterpart, which is he knows there is a major attack coming. The German will lose alot of troops in the initial assault but with good play can avoid the large operational encirclements that destroyed AG center in 1944. The point of Minsk as the Germans is to delay and survive and the VPs are scored accordingly. The numerous rivers and swamps create choke points for the Soviets and can be defended.