WITE Campaign Game, ver 1.09

[Currahee]

Six more months have flown by, it's mid-August of '43, mud has long since dried, and Italy has withdrawn its forces from the east.  I (Soviets) have begun to push the German back from Leningrad and Moscow, and have retaken Odessa, using a couple of amphibious feints to assist.  With a couple of recently-formed tank armies, I'm threatening Rumania in the south, it would be nice to knock them out.  Each turn, my replacements have exceeded attrition, so I'm creating a steady stream of new units, although they're not much use until they gain experience.  The mechanized corps looked pathetic at first, but once their TO&E, around mid-'43, boosts their medium tanks to 160, they take off on steroids. 

Kursk didn't happen, although the German AI launched a threatening attack in that general area; I was able to get in front of him, and didn't suffer any encirclements.  Nor could I encircle him, had to be satisfied with slowly pushing back the bulge....my mech corps weren't yet mature enough to perform...

But it's interesting that except for that episode, the German hasn't attacked this spring/summer, even in clear weather; the AI has definitely gone over to the defensive, is husbanding its strength, and trying to hold territory.  It continues to use panzer and SS (at this point, panzer grenadier) divisions behind its lines as "reserves", rather than put them in the line; this makes it tough to punch through in those areas. 

I doubt my ability to make and gainfully use enough units to soak up my prodigious manpower reserves.  This is probably not a problem I'd have, if the German had taken Leningrad and Moscow.