b12ox
Banned
I know very well they needed that oil. thats why they split the army to get their asap only to find the factories blown up. Had they made it to Baku they would have dind the same thing happened. They could not have attacked and destroyed the armies that came after them. And even if they did What it buys them ? Some time to wait for another attack. Had they taken Staligrad and established defensive lines they would have been better off in the long run. And forget about the oil for the time being cause they wouldnt have been getting it, just try to survive with all they had and sort out conventinal supplies. Beggars can't be choosers. It beats cancelling the south front altogether and dying at Stalingrad. They sorted their lines in the Center and it worked for them so why not here.Hardly. Germans went for Caucasus because they needed the oil, not just to deny it to Soviets. And waiting for Soviets to show up makes no sense since everybody (including Gehlen) thought RA was on its hind legs anyway. So it made more sense to go after them and destroy them rather than just sit and wait for them to show up, which they wouldn't since they were on their hind legs.
I am trying to give them the benefit of hindsight to see how far they can go.Again, hindsight. we know what state RA was at each point. Germans didn't. they thought that if they take Stalingrad and defeat Soviets (which they did time after time in 1942) RA would simply run out of troops. Under those circumstances using Romanians wasn't such a mistake since there would be no attack anyway and once Stalingrad was taken that would be it, head to Berlin for victory parade.