Prussia - HOI4 - Opening Moves

04 Feb 1917: Objectives have been drawn for the three armies of Armeegruppe Ost. 6th Army is an independent army. It shares the same section of the frontline as 5th Army, but its objective is the Moscow region.
I've started producing the new Maschinepistole 18/1 and I have a deficit of almost 200,000 so I need to adjust the MFs in the Production schedule.
That should help alleviated things.
The objective for the Armeegruppe is beyond the Urals. That's how far our divisions will have to march. I've also changed the missions of my fleets from 'Patrol' to 'Search and Destroy'. The air wings now have missions over enemy territory.
So now I can declare war.
Now it's official.
The Soviets are hopelessly outnumbered and don't even have enough divisions to form a contiguous frontline!
Army Baltikum also has a role to play.
5th Army's operational plans.
3rd Army's plans....
….and the plans for 1st Army.
All of the front's plans.
05 Feb 1917: The doctrine Aerial Bombs has arrived.
I select Trench Mortar I next.
I need to check on other major powers. The UK is not reacting.
Neither is Italy but what is 'Militarize Tripoli?'
Two Military Factories arrive. Hopefully they will be mine one day.
No change in Turkey either. Excellent!
Lenin calls Armenia into the conflict.
06 Feb 1917: Small advances north and south of Minsk. The other Russia is also attacking the Soviets.
We have received 15 Ersatz.Divisionen and I assign them to the Armeeschule.
6th Gebirgs-Division is sent to 8th Army in Serbia.
4 new CAS air wings are assigned to support operations in Belarus.
10 new Stoßtruppen-Divisionen are also sent to train further.
There is a lot to take care of in an operation of this scale but we have had over a year to plan it. There will be more movement in the next post. Bis bald.

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