Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-32656-20150222122359

...Would help a great deal, GB, if you would bother to read what others write.

Gaps = as in the spots opened by moving armies around, and to fill in losses overall. Historical fact.

Division strength? You do realize that the US (and maybe Japan - spotty records, there) was the only power after 1943 with full divisions, right? And that was barely. Another three months, and they would have had undersized ones too.

The British solution (and the German one for a while) was to disband formations and use these troops to fill out the others. The Soviets refused to do this. Not an indicator of size or numbers.

Was not a Soviet manpower shortage, really - just too many divisions existing. An administrative matter that others dealt with quite well.

May want to look at a map instead of drawing "Alps" on one. Not only is there passes, but a not insignificant coastal strip. Going up the peninsula not as hard as you think - they just did not have the numbers otl, and used terrible plannimg (hence, Anzio and Cassino) there. Want to get around? Land troops ala~ Dragoon in SE France. Or commit another division to Anzio. Easy. There is a ton of routes around the problem.

Dragoon was better terrain than Overlord, imo. Just harder to do because the logistical trail was longer.