Army Group Center (turn-limit)

This is turn-limited version of Fall of German Army Group Center 1944 (Operation Bagration) by Joni Nuutinen (by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011)

In the summer of 1944 the German Army Group Center was completely wiped out after the Red Army launched Operation Bagration - can you maneuver Germans out of the biggest disaster on the Eastern Front?

The key for the success of Soviet Operation Bagration and the resulting destruction of the German Army Group Center was the difference in mobility: The US lend-lease gave the Red Army more trucks than Germany made in the entire war. Suddenly Soviet Rifle divisions moved 200 km per day instead of just 2, any previous experience Germans had fighting the Red Army was now obsolete. Meanwhile German Army Group Center had barely any Panzer or Panzergrenadier divisions left, many units were ordered to sit tight and hold stronghold cities in spite of nearby breakthroughs by Russians, and Soviet air force and partisans limited movement in the rear areas.

End result of this difference in mobility: In less than two weeks, more German men and materiel had been destroyed than at Stalingrad over a year earlier.

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