Comments by "The Looinrims" (@looinrims) on "Eastern Front animated: 1942" video.

  1. If it further exaggerates the point, every army regulation made after June 1941 was made with the assumption the reader was on the eastern front, always referring to the Russian, their land, equipment, tactics, and preferences
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  2. I hate to be that guy, truly, but that’s not an army (it’s very small for me on mobile but I only see 3 Xs) that’s a Corps, army’s are 4 X’s A panzer corps too I do believe since the dark tokens were the armor formations, there never was a 48th Panzer Army, hell the 5th Panzer Army was made in winter 1944
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  3.  Abu Troll al cockroachistan  I want to know the moron that said Stalingrad was a symbolic target, it wasn’t, it was the connection of the Soviet heartland to the Caucasus The German invasion was doomed when no one stopped Halder from focusing the offensive to AGC’s sector in attacking Moscow rather than AGS’s sector to capture the oil when everyone with half a Brain cell knew Germany’s oil shortages would become problematic
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  4. Current academics point to Operation Barbarossa’s excessive German losses of their most experienced and well trained units and best equipment being the turning point, 1942’s Case Blue was the last ditch effort to save the situation
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  5. You’re partially right, the Red army suffered extensively by the asinine decisions of Stavka and Stalin in 1941-1942, Zhukov was quite literally the only competent leader for a long time in the war and even then he made slip ups, one of his biggest was the idea that in winter 1941 it was a counter offensive and he tried to encircle the army group center instead of more realistic separate armies
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  6.  @СцукоНах  I don’t see how Army group north could cut the northern soviet port cities by capturing Leningrad, can you elaborate? Also the reproduction of the KV tanks would’ve been likely difficult as historically the Germans assessed the T34 and decided that attempting to copy it would be ineffective due to all the logistical and specialist issues, I doubt the KV series would be any different
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  7.  @PlacidoDomingo180  if that was the case the war would’ve ended months ago
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  8. ultimateroblocksgawd Germany was lost from the word go when they let Halder shove army group center full of units instead of army group south so they could secure the oil before the crisis instead of trying during it
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  9. ultimateroblocksgawd sure but how many of those were actually tapped into in 1941? The Middle East only became a hot bed of oil in the mid-late 20th century when it was discovered and tapped into
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  10. Approximately 14,000 for every German Corps and 10,000(?) for every Soviet Army in 1942, that’s assuming they were full strength, which wasn’t the case many times for the infantry (Rifle Corps) or any German unit
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  11.  Abu Troll al cockroachistan  I don’t remember the full quote but a historian (Glantz? Hill?) says this “Had army group center launched Operation Typhoon in August, they would be against soviet defenders who did not waste their manpower in fruitless counterattacks, while pushing an ever expanding corridor with hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers threatening its flanks, and would approach ‘the gates’ of Moscow around the time the muddy season begins, slowing the logistics down to a crawl during what would be the heaviest fighting” And no they couldn’t send what they had south, they needed everything they had north to prevent the Soviets from reinforcing and resupplying the Caucasus, that’s why cutting the Volga and Don were so important
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  12. Entire nation’s armed forces would be lost in such a case, like the baltics
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  13. @ends1eg uh, what army do you work for where that’s the case? US divisions are around 20,000 men each
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  14. ultimateroblocksgawd and they were smashed by the Army Group South and ultimately yeeted in Kiev only with the armored forces of army group center, imagine the difference swapping the two around would’ve made in terms of securing the caucuses before fuel hit a critical point and before the serious manpower issues, the assault on the Caucasus in our timeline were hinged upon the idea the Soviets wouldn’t retreat as they did in 1941, but they didn’t, they fell back before being encircled and throwing the German plan into disarray I’m under the significant belief that if Hitler had his way (the offensive focus being on the northern and southern sectors to deny the red army the ability to replenish forces, instead of the center, or even just the southern sector) instead of Halder then the war would look very different, the Soviets especially would’ve found it much harder to hold out if they even could
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  15. ultimateroblocksgawd I never said that, I compared the importance of the Middle East before and after the discovery of its vast oil, of Siberia’s resources weren’t known or tapped yet then they aren’t relevant
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  16. ultimateroblocksgawd I do not understand what this is referring to, is it the Soviets? Well yeah, that’s what the Germans would want the ahistoric army group south to conquer with their large size, since that’s what germany needed to continue waging war If it’s the Germans then this is just flat out wrong
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