The result was practically inevitable.īut in this ATL, Axis troops would amount to around 4,500,000 men (50 german divisions and 40 non-german divisions more than in OTL, not counting more ex-soviet renegades) and Red Army would amount maybe around 5,500,000 (just a bit less, but never equal). Axis offensive was stopped in two weeks, and then the Soviet Army used other reserve armies to accomplish offensives in the north of the Kursk scenario (Orel freed in August) and specially in the south of the Kursk scenario (all Ukraina and Kiev capital freed in November), all those defensive areas were weakened due to the effort of the Ostheer to concentrate in the offensive front of Kursk.Īccording to “A war to be won”, in summer 1943 OTL, Axis troops amounted to 3,000,000 and Red Army troops amounted to 5,700,000. What happened in OTL was that the Axis forces were defeated especially due to numerical inferiority and also due to a soviet tactical improvement and the north American supplies got in the Red Army.Īccording to Geoffrey Jukes, in the OTL Kursk scenario, Axis assembled three armies (9 Armee, 4 Panzerarmee and Army Detachment Kempf) with 900,000 soldiers, confronted with 1,337,000 soviet soldiers. So, from February to June-July 1943 both sides would be building up the armies for the summer battle in Northern Caucasus coming Unlike the OTL Zitadelle, in this case no one would have needed much the intel information: the Axis goal could not be other than reaching the Caspian Sea from the Ostheer bases in the Black Sea, cutting off the Persian Corridor and conquering the rest of the Caucasus, Baku included.
In the above mentioned topic has been explained how the battle of Stalingrad would have been surely won by the Axis thanks to the dominance of the Black Sea by the Axis fleet.įinished the battle around Stalingrad in February 1943, with the intervention of the Waffen-SS Panzerkorps arrived from France (in this story, arrived earlier than in OTL, due to the advantage of the maritime transport routes), in the next interim both sides would have tried to prepare the coming summer campaign.
1&t=188260, this is a story concerning the myth of the Russian colossus in the second world war. As a continuation of the topic about the connection Mediterranean-Black Sea in 1942.
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