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  1. Buba

    If the Germans don't focus offensively on Verdun or the West in 1916, where should they focus?

    I already suggested how to deal with the inevitable Entente offensives in France - flexible defence. Verdun and Somme were more or less one-for-one exchanges. Dumb. Do not fight "to the death" over every metre of ground - lose one man for 2-3 Frenchmen/Britishers and "the pressure is mounting"...
  2. Buba

    If the Germans don't focus offensively on Verdun or the West in 1916, where should they focus?

    Yes, I'm a fan of the Southern Strategy - to grind down the Russian Army there, with bonus of depriving Russia of resources/gaining resources for CP. And keeping Romania out of the war. But a Northern Strategy also has merits - having the Germans in Pskov or Reval will get the elites in Sankt...
  3. Buba

    If the Germans don't focus offensively on Verdun or the West in 1916, where should they focus?

    a) 25km a day :) That's the long term (i.e. longer than a week) speed of formations with oats powered transport. For range - if one is to consider Faustschlag as a non-representative outlier - then in 1920 it took Tukhaczevski 6 weeks to march (after breakthrough it was low intensity combat)...
  4. Buba

    If the Germans don't focus offensively on Verdun or the West in 1916, where should they focus?

    For once I agree with Churchill - "go East or go home" :) IMO ignore Italy - let them waste men against the mountains, ignore Saloniki - mountains less bad than Eastern Alps, but with fewer roads than the Eastern Alps, and held by Bulgarians (who did a Good Job and thus saved on German/A-H...
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