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A very rough timeline sketch I've had in my head for a bit, that I've shared with @sillygoose because he inspired it: 1941 - No Kiev Diversion, Viazyma-Briansk encirclement in August. Moscow falls in September due to weak Soviet force regeneration, while the primacy of the defense of the...

It was not strictly ideological considerations, but rather the very real issue that feeding the German Army in Russia while not depriving the Fatherland itself could only come at the expense of something like the Hunger Plan. About the only real way to derail that, in my estimation, is to...

Secure the Volkhov and Leningrad falls by early 1942 as well.

The November halt order maintained combined with your PoD for a movement on the Volkhov in AGN's sector is, I think, the last great PoD for the Germans in 1941.

We need you to post some threads about August-September Operation Typhoon and the like, definitely.

Anything you can share or point to any particular? I've read a lot of his articles on his Operation Barbarossa website, but I was unaware of the computer simulations and the like.

For another PoD, have Hitler avoid his bad decision concerning how to conquer the Dnieper Barrier: On 18 March Hitler decided that Sixth Army was to carry out the main thrust of Army Group South. The plan for a Twelfth Army advance from Moldavia toward the northeast was abandoned. The German...

To quote from Robert Forczyk's Moscow 1941: Hitler's First Defeat: By the time in question Zhukov had only 90,000 troops spread out over a single defensive line before Moscow, with only limited NKVD security troops in Moscow itself so the city was virtually undefended once the Germans bust...