After a completely decisive victory at easy level, gone way up to the "Challenging Level"...
June 26 (After 1st turn):
4 Panzer Army Group (pink forces, yellow circle)...Riga an open city....gonna romp through the vacant Baltic states (the Baltic Drive) outflanking the bulk of the Russian forces...this follows von Manstein's preferred plan (as opposed to what actually happened - shown by the red arrow - a more safe/but slower approach)...3rd turn, the bulk of my panzers will regroup in the yellow square and start clearing the outskirts of Leningrad, Army Group North's main objective...18th Army (orange circle) to follow behind...in support...but at least one of their corp's to clear the Courland...bastard that...could leave the Russians there to rot I spose...but really can't have that in my rear...16th Army to COMPLETELY WIPE OUT the huge encircled pocket to its north (probably 100,000+ encircled ruskis)...and together with my reserve army (the 9th - green circle) to secure the south east flank - and help with the attack on Leningrad - if needed...
Suggestions with reasoning plz...