Army Group Western Front 1944 Slovakia

Oddly enough, I still haven't finished a single run of 1944 yet.
Nevertheless, while your German allies delay the Allies, I think knocking out the middle Soviet group is important.

Assuming Romania + Bulgaria + Hungary can hold the southernmost Soviet group, you need to save Manstein.


Probably try to paratroop someone into Italy if possible. Then, march up the Allied rear from the south.

sugarman,
put Arnold in the Bratislava airport with yamashita or macarthur should be able to land in venice or somewhere there in north Italy(if I'm not mistaken it is upgraded so it is possible)

Build your troops into one group of 6 and reinforce the inf units, especially the commander. Immediately move eastward.
Here, there were two choices: attack towards Iasi or retake Brest.

I took over Brest, gave it up to Rokossovsky while Group D weakened him. When he moved into Brest, I Forced March into Pinsk.
My allies were in position to attack Iasi and hold the SE, so I moved towards Lublin-Brest.

Next, I rebuilt my troops in Pinsk. Since Minsk was weak, I attacked. At the same time, I built a 2nd force in case Brest was open. My allies destroyed most of the Soviets around and within Brest, but there was a KV-6 with some tanks left which my 2nd force failed to destroy.

As Bryansk was open or weak, I sent the commander with a tank via a Forced March. Keep building a force in Minsk against Vilnius and Vitebus. The focus is to march the highest number of units found by spamming 2× inf.

From Bryansk => Kursk => Kharkiv and/or Bryansk => Kharkiv and/or Bryansk => Kiev. At this point, you may unlock airlift. Use it wisely.
At Kiev, build against Uman unless it's open and tenable. In the latter case, capture.
AI Manstein was cut off when I marched past Lviv and it was captured (then recaptured with Hungarian help). He helped to destroy many Soviet 4th Army Group troops.

Kharkiv => Zaporizhia by airlift or overland march. Hold it.
Using a Forced March, Bryansk => open Moscow. Group D smashed the 1st and 2nd Soviet Groups.
Build in Bryansk, then, attack Smolensk. Build in Smolensk, then, take Toropets, abandoning Smolensk (enemy force at Vitebsk).

Group D weakened Vilnius and cleared Naunas to Riga. Seeing as Vilnius was weak and the nearby 2× arty was incapable, a small Minsk force attacked Vilnius.

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Italians retook Rome but lost all of northern Italy. Two 1× inf prepared to take Zagreb to hold the Americans.

That's where I stopped.

By turn 20, the Soviets should be knocked out and you should prepare to save D and C from the Allies.
I gobbled up Istanbul, and wanted to eat weakened Bulgaria. Forgot that declaring in an ally means all allies turn on you. Since it's not me against the world, I'd either quit or fight until I win.

Headed north to take Brest. Manstein killed himself around turn 4, but broke a lot of the Soviet strength. Then took Minsk. I have Kiev (airlift) as well by turn 9 and the factory SE of Lviv. Soviet 1 & 2 neutralised by turn 16, all generals deployed (Guderian, Rommel, Patton, Monty, Leeb, Vatutin, MacArthur) and on the Balkan axis. Soviet 3 breakthrough contained by Hungary, German B & C still in the game. Made it to Thessaloniki by 22, and German D is moving, but C is collapsing. Need to kick the British 2nd out of the Balkans, then move the French and US 2 out of Italy.

Won't be a speed run, but as long as German D holds, should make it.