Newbie: Which PzC game to begin?

[Ricky B]

Encirclements are not a problem. There is no requirement to have the enemy ZOCs in close range to encircle you - you are isolated if you can't trace a line of adjacent hexes to a friendly supply source, so it can be far away. Once isolated, everything drops a morale step, and after firing units go low supply, and lose another step. Even possible to go low fuel, for motorized units, on the next fuel check turn making the unit more vulnerable defensively, and yes losing another morale step.

I have seen huge encirclements in Kharkov '42, there the encircling units covered a line of more than 100 hexes to form the encirclement, and others small and close in with a few to many units trapped inside of it.