WITE2 - T3 - Hoth and Guderian are forced to stop

The victorious advance of the two panzer groups paving the way for Army Group Center has created an insurmountable gap between the mobile units and the foot-borne infantry, most of which is still busy in clearing the pockets around Vitebsk and Orsha. Unable to progress due to a lack of fuel and infantry support, this week the panzers of Army Group Center are forced to a standstill. And nobody knows for how long.

[@TimFrancis-l5e]

I don't have the pocket at Veilikie Luki either, so definitely behind your schedule. Still, I've learned a lot from your tutorials - much appreciated!

[@fraulens]

The pocket at Velikie Luki much depends on what the AI does and (more importantly) if the AI leaves gaps in between its lines. In this campaign, I have been kind of "lucky" in having the AI behaving normally. In all my previous attempts, I could just walk into Mogilev and Orsha without a shot being fired, as the AI would somehow focus its attention on the 12th Panzer Division south-west of Vitebsk.

[@TimFrancis-l5e]

In my mirror game, on T3 I could not take Smolensk, so I just surrounded it. I took Orsha, not Mogilev, and crossed the Dnepr further south at Zhlobin. I didn't get the pocket you got at Orsha, I got a much smaller one just to the north.

[@fraulens]

This is still great!